A 2D model to study how secondary growth affects the self-supporting behaviour of climbing plants.

Climbing plants exhibit specialized shoots, called "searchers", to cross spaces and alternate between spatially discontinuous supports in their natural habitats. To achieve this task, searcher shoots combine both primary and secondary growth processes of their stems in order to support, or...

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Main Authors: Giacomo Vecchiato, Tom Hattermann, Michele Palladino, Fabio Tedone, Patrick Heuret, Nick P Rowe, Pierangelo Marcati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011538&type=printable