A global regulation inducing the shape of growing folded leaves.

Shape is one of the important characteristics for the structures observed in living organisms. Whereas biologists have proposed models where the shape is controlled on a molecular level [1], physicists, following Turing [2] and d'Arcy Thomson [3], have developed theories where patterns arise sp...

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Main Authors: Etienne Couturier, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, Stéphane Douady
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2776983?pdf=render