Last reviewed 2026-06-21
The Logic of Living Patterns
How reaction, diffusion, transport, and feedback let living tissues organize themselves.
Read the living synthesis →Curated research question
How do cells know where they are in a growing body?
Current answer
Sources that address it
- Auxin transport model for leaf venationpreprint
- Hydromechanical field theory of plant morphogenesispreprint
- Mathematical Modelling of Auxin Transport in Plant Tissues: Flux meets Signalling and Growthpreprint
- Modeling the emergence of polarity patterns for the intercellular transport of auxin in plantspreprint
- Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissueweb
- Reaction-Diffusion Pattern in Shoot Apical Meristem of Plantsweb
- Synthetic genetic circuits as a means of reprogramming plant rootsweb
- Turing-like mechanism in a stochastic reaction-diffusion model recreates three dimensional vascular patterning of plant stemsweb