Noise and robustness in phyllotaxis.

A striking feature of vascular plants is the regular arrangement of lateral organs on the stem, known as phyllotaxis. The most common phyllotactic patterns can be described using spirals, numbers from the Fibonacci sequence and the golden angle. This rich mathematical structure, along with the exper...

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Main Authors: Vincent Mirabet, Fabrice Besnard, Teva Vernoux, Arezki Boudaoud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3280957?pdf=render