ReviewProtoplasma2014
The problem of morphogenesis: unscripted biophysical control systems in plants.
Review in Protoplasma, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Root developmental zonation is independent of cell wall pH.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Wilhelm Hofmeister revisited: Meristematic surfaces channel information flows in organogenesis.Quantitative plant biology · 2026Review
- The influence of anther locular fluid on exine self-assembly, investigated by in vivo transplantation experiments.Planta · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of pollen wall development in Lysimachia vulgaris.Protoplasma · 2024Article
- CCaP1/CCaP2/CCaP3 interact with plasma membrane HPlant communications · 2024Article
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- Stochasticity and the limits of molecular signaling in plant development.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Whole-Tissue Three-Dimensional Imaging of Rice at Single-Cell Resolution.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Coordinating the morphogenesis-differentiation balance by tweaking the cytokinin-gibberellin equilibrium.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- Mimicking pollen and spore walls: self-assembly in action.Annals of botany · 2019Article
- The power of time-how to set up a rhythm.Protoplasma · 2019Article
- Preprophase-band positioning in isolated tobacco BY-2 cells: evidence for a principal role of nucleus-cell cortex interaction in default division-plane selection.Protoplasma · 2019Article
- Assembling the thickest plant cell wall: exine development in Echinops (Asteraceae, Cynareae).Planta · 2018Article
- Pollen wall ontogeny in Polemonium caeruleum (Polemoniaceae) and suggested underlying mechanisms of development.Protoplasma · 2018Article
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- Crop epigenetics and the molecular hardware of genotype × environment interactions.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Review
- Growth rate distribution in the forming lateral root of arabidopsis.Annals of botany · 2014Article
- Dichotomous branching: the plant form and integrity upon the apical meristem bifurcation.Frontiers in plant science · 2014Review
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Abstract
The relative simplicity of plant developmental systems, having evolved within the universal constraints imposed by the plant cell wall, may allow us to outline a consistent developmental narrative that is not currently possible in the animal kingdom. In this article, I discuss three aspects of the development of the mature form in plants, approaching them in terms of the role played by the biophysics and mechanics of the cell wall during growth. First, I discuss axis extension in terms of a loss of stability-based model of cell wall stress relaxation and I introduce the possibility that cell wall stress relaxation can be modeled as a binary switch. Second, I consider meristem shape and surface conformation as a controlling element in the morphogenetic circuitry of plant organogenesis at the apex. Third, I approach the issue of reproductive differentiation and propose that the multicellular sporangium, a universal feature of land plants, acts as a stress-mechanical lens, focusing growth-induced stresses to create a geometrically precise mechanical singularity that can serve as an inducing developmental signal triggering the initiation of reproductive differentiation. Lastly, I offer these three examples of biophysically integrated control processes as entry points into a narrative that provides an independent, nongenetic context for understanding the evolution of the apoplast and the morphogenetic ontogeny of multicellular land plants.
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