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Invited Expert Review The Plant Vascular System: Evolution, Development and Functions William J. Lucas1 ∗ , Andrew Groover2, Raffael Lichtenberger3, Kaori Furuta3, Shri-Ram Yadav3, Ykä Helariutta3, Xin-Qiang He4, Hiroo Fukuda5, Julie Kang6, Siobhan M. Brady1, John W. Patrick7, John Sperry8, Akiko Yoshida1, Ana-Flor López-Millán9, Michael A. Grusak10 and Pradeep Kachroo11 1Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA 2US Forest Service, Pacific SW Res Stn, Institute for Forest Genetics, Davis, CA 95618, USA 3Institute of Biotechnology/Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland 4State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 5Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 6Biology Department, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA 7School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia 8Biology Department, University of Utah, 257S 1400E Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA 9Plant Nutrition Department, Aula Dei Experimental Station (CSIC), P.O. Box 13034, E-50080, Zaragoza, Spain 10USDA-ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA 11Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA All authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript. ∗ Corresponding author Tel: +1 530 752 1093; Fax: +1 530 752 5410; E-mail: [email protected] F Articles can be viewed online without a subscription. Available online on 5 March 2013 at www.jipb.net and www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jipb doi: 10.1111/jipb.12041