“…Collectively, PHAN and its homologs from Arabidopsis, ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1), and maize, ROUGH SHEATH2 (RS2), are referred to as ARP genes (Timmermans et al, 1999;Tsiantis et al, 1999;Byrne et al, 2000;Ori et al, 2000). Intriguingly, whereas ARP genes in maize, Arabidopsis and pea function in KNOX repression (Waites et al, 1998;Timmermans et al, 1999;Tsiantis et al, 1999;Lodha et al, 2013;DeMason & Chetty, 2014), tomato PHAN and KNOX genes are co-expressed in the same cells (Koltai & Bird, 2000;Kim et al, 2003;DeMason & Chetty, 2014). Unlike the radialized, abaxial phenotypes observed in phan mutants, maize rs2 mutants in the leaf exhibit narrow, halfleaf phenotypes with proximal-distal defects wherein ectopic sheath and ligule identity is expressed in the distal lamina (Schneeberger et al, 1998).…”