Reaction-diffusion pattern in shoot apical meristem of plants.

A fundamental question in developmental biology is how spatial patterns are self-organized from homogeneous structures. In 1952, Turing proposed the reaction-diffusion model in order to explain this issue. Experimental evidence of reaction-diffusion patterns in living organisms was first provided by...

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Main Authors: Hironori Fujita, Koichi Toyokura, Kiyotaka Okada, Masayoshi Kawaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3066213?pdf=render