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Our review (Coen and Carpenter, 1993) describes how both the similarities and differences between flowers and shoots can be explained by the action of a set of genes modifying a common growth plan. This does not imply that flowers and shoots are directly derived from one another or that they serve the same function or that they express all of the same genes. We would also like to point out that...