Article
A plausible model of phyllotaxis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Jan 2006
Smith Richard S, Guyomarc'h Soazig, Mandel Therese, Reinhardt Didier, Kuhlemeier Cris, Prusinkiewicz Przemyslaw
Abstract excerpt
A striking phenomenon unique to the kingdom of plants is the regular arrangement of lateral organs around a central axis, known as phyllotaxis. Recent molecular-genetic experiments indicate that active transport of the plant hormone auxin is the key process regulating phyllotaxis. A conceptual model based on these experiments, introduced by Reinhardt et al. [Reinhardt, D., Pesce, E. R., Stieger, P., Mandel, T.,...
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