Mathematical Biology Seminar
Patrick Shipman
University of Maryland
Monday Jan. 14, 2008
3:05pm in LCB 215
"Phyllotaxis: Cooperation and
Competition between Mechanical and Biochemical Processes
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Abstract:
Current theories and models of the formation of phyllotactic patterns
at plant meristems center on either the transport of the growth
hormone auxin or the mechanical buckling of the plant tunica. We will
develop a combined model that incorporates both mechanisms and show
how the mechanisms may cooperate in determining the pattern, or how
one or the other mechanism may dominate.
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Mathematical Biology Program
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
155 South 1400 East Room 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
rasmusse@math.utah.edu
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