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Tortuous-stem plants have extremely high ornamental value due to the zigzag shape or natural twisting of the branches. At present, the research about tortuous-stem plants focuses mainly on the morphological characteristics, anatomic structure and genetic characteristics, but few studies have been conducted on the genetic mechanism of tortuous stem traits. In recent years, numerous tortuous-stem mutants have been screened from Arabidopsis thaliana, Zea mays, Glycine max, Lycopersicon esculentum, Prunus and Populus indicating that tortuous traits may be closely related to the abnormal geotropic growth, uneven distribution of hormones and asymmetric development of vascular bundles. In this paper, advances in morphological characteristics, environmental regulation, genetic patterns, molecular mechanism and application prospects of tortuous-stem plants were summarized, aiming at providing the basis for revealing the molecular mechanism of tortuous stem traits.

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The research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. BLX2016-07, 2016ZCQ02), and Special Fund for Beijing Common Construction Project.

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  1. Tangchun Zheng and Lulu Li have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation and Molecular Breeding, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, Beijing Laboratory of Urban and Rural Ecological Environment, Engineering Research Center of Landscape Environment of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding in Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants of Ministry of Education, School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Tangchun Zheng, Lulu Li & Qixiang Zhang

  2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Qixiang Zhang

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TZ and LL conceived and drafted the manuscript. QZ contributed to the conception of the study and finalized the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zheng, T., Li, L. & Zhang, Q. Advances in research on tortuous traits of plants. Euphytica 214, 224 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-018-2306-0

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