PLANT DEVELOPMENT LAB

Welcome to the Plant Development Lab led by Professor Christine Beveridge, part of the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Queensland. On this website you can find information on our research, our people and how to join us... Plant stem cells are the driving force behind the incredible ability of genetically identical plants to adapt to their environment. Without the ability to lift up and move camp, plants need to adapt immediately to the myriad of challenges thrown at them. Plants achieve this by maintaining small populations of stem cells at growing points in the shoot and root tips as well as in dormant shoot buds, and in tissues along the length of the shoot and root. These meristems can allow individual plants to form completely different and unique architectures and to stimulate lateral growth such as wood production... As in animals, hormones in plants are central to the control of stem cells. In contrast with animals, only a handful of hormones have been..