ArticleFrontiers in plant science2012
Plant development, auxin, and the subsystem incompleteness theorem.
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- Seedling development in maize cv. B73 and blue light-mediated proteomic changes in the tip vs. stem of the coleoptile.Protoplasma · 2017Article
- The evolution of the plant genome-to-morphology auxin circuit.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2016Article
- Growth-limiting proteins in maize coleoptiles and the auxin-brassinosteroid hypothesis of mesocotyl elongation.Protoplasma · 2016Review
- Rethinking gene regulatory networks in light of alternative splicing, intrinsically disordered protein domains, and post-translational modifications.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2015Article
- Role of chloride ions in the promotion of auxin-induced growth of maize coleoptile segments.Annals of botany · 2014Article
- Mechanical forces as information: an integrated approach to plant and animal development.Frontiers in plant science · 2014Review
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- Metabolic scaling theory in plant biology and the three oxygen paradoxa of aerobic life.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2013Article
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Abstract
Plant morphogenesis (the process whereby form develops) requires signal cross-talking among all levels of organization to coordinate the operation of metabolic and genomic subsystems operating in a larger network of subsystems. Each subsystem can be rendered as a logic circuit supervising the operation of one or more signal-activated system. This approach simplifies complex morphogenetic phenomena and allows for their aggregation into diagrams of progressively larger networks. This technique is illustrated here by rendering two logic circuits and signal-activated subsystems, one for auxin (IAA) polar/lateral intercellular transport and another for IAA-mediated cell wall loosening. For each of these phenomena, a circuit/subsystem diagram highlights missing components (either in the logic circuit or in the subsystem it supervises) that must be identified experimentally if each of these basic plant phenomena is to be fully understood. We also illustrate the "subsystem incompleteness theorem," which states that no subsystem is operationally self-sufficient. Indeed, a whole-organism perspective is required to understand even the most simple morphogenetic process, because, when isolated, every biological signal-activated subsystem is morphogenetically ineffective.
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