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Meeting report Moonlight in Vermont illuminates plant development Olivier Voinnet* and Kim Baumann† Addresses: *Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France. †Mediant Cambridge, Miller’s Yard, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RQ, UK. Correspondence: Olivier Voinnet. Email: olivier.voinnet@ibmp-ulp.u-strasbg.fr Published: 29 December 2006 Genome Biology 2006, 7:334 (doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-12-334) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2006/7/12/334 © 2006 BioMed Central Ltd cell, which generates the proembryo, and a larger basal A report on the FASEB summer research conference cell, which forms the extraembryonic suspensor attaching ‘Mechanisms in plant development’, Saxtons River, USA, 5-9 the embryo to maternal tissues. The proembryo then August 2006. recruits the uppermost suspensor cell to form the root meristem founder cell (the hypophysis). PIN-dependent polar auxin transport and activity of ARF5 (also called This year’s FASEB meeting on plant development covered a MONOPTEROS, MP ) and IAA12 (also called BODENLOS, wide range of topics, including patterning, cell specification BDL) are all required for specification of the hypophysis. and the evolution of developmental mechanisms. The plant However, during the time of hypophysis specification, MP hormone auxin and some recently discovered small regul