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JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 236, Issue 2, Pages 154-197Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.03.007
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phyllotaxis; pattern formation; biomechanics
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We demonstrate how phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on plants) and the ribbed, hexagonal, or parallelogram planforms on plants can be understood as the energy-minimizing buckling pattern of a compressed sheet (the plant's tunica) on an elastic foundation. The key idea is that the elastic energy is minimized by configurations consisting of special triads of periodic deformations. We study the conditions that lead to continuous or discontinuous transitions between patterns, state testable predictions, and suggest experiments to test the theory. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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