Plant Development

Curated questions

• How can chemicals that react and spread create a pattern?
• How do cells know where they are in a growing body?
• How does a living thing know what shape to grow into?
• How does auxin shape a growing plant?

Syntheses

• The Logic of Living Patterns

Source-derived questions

Questions extracted from the papers in this topic, excluding the curated questions above.

• How does feedback between PIN transporter regulation and auxin-responsive ARF-Aux/IAA signalling drive the switch between passage and spot patterns of auxin distribution?
• How does the WUS-CLV feedback system generate the overlapping molecular gradients that define distinct zones within the shoot apical meristem?

Sources

• Mathematical Modelling of Auxin Transport in Plant Tissues: Flux meets Signalling and Growth
• Reaction-Diffusion Pattern in Shoot Apical Meristem of Plants

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