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Although for an entire plant, vegetative and reproductive development may proceed concurrently, at each shoot apical meristem a transition occurs from leaf production to bract or sepal production at the time of flower initiation. Subsequent stages of reproductive development are equally differentiated from that of vegetative development. Hence, vegetative and reproductive development represent alternative courses of differentiation of apical meristematic tissues.
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