On the Cover: Scanning Electron Micrograph of the tip of a young maize tassel, showing several axillary meristems developing from an apical inflorescence meristem. Liu et al. show that the transcriptional corepressor REL2 is involved in the initiation and maintenance of these meristems. Image credit: Andrea Gallavotti.
Note: The article affiliated with this image will be appearing in the January 2019 issue of Plant Physiology, Volume 179 Issue 1.