Ground breaking works from Agata Burian’s lab showing beautiful self organizing patterns of internal vasculature strands ahead of epidermal auxin maxima! Most importantly, the new opening strands form convergent angles that close to those observed in Fibonacci, Lucas, and Bijugated spiral patterns.
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Self-organization of vascular strands drives their patterning in the Arabidopsis shoot apex
In plants, the development of the shoot vascular system is closely coordinated with lateral organ formation at the shoot apical meristem. Despite exte…