The establishment of leaf adaxial–abaxial polarity happens early at the shoot apical meristem. Using quantitative live imaging of auxin and dorsiventral polarity markers, the authors trace the origin of polarity to before primordium emergence, to an overlay of high auxin onto a meristem periphery prepattern.
- Agata Burian
- Gael Paszkiewicz
- Marja C. P. Timmermans