Tree crowns grow into self-similar shapes controlled by gravity and light sensing

On the growth and form of shoots

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Wind loads and competition for light sculpt trees into self-similar structures

(2017) Christophe Eloy et al.   Nature Communications

How do plants read their own shapes?

(2016) Olivier Hamant et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inclination not force is sensed by plants during shoot gravitropism

(2016) Hugo Chauvet et al.   Scientific Reports

A Unified Model of Shoot Tropism in Plants: Photo-, Gravi- and Propio-ception

(2015) Renaud Bastien et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Mechanosensitive control of plant growth: bearing the load, sensing, transducing, and responding

(2015) Bruno Moulia et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The Explicit–Implicit–Null method: Removing the numerical instability of PDEs

(2014) Laurent Duchemin et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Modeling tree crown dynamics with 3D partial differential equations

(2014) Robert Beyer et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Shade avoidance: phytochrome signalling and other aboveground neighbour detection cues

(2013) Ronald Pierik et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Phototropism: at the crossroads of light-signaling pathways

(2013) Anupama Goyal et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Not only light quality but also mechanical stimuli are involved in height convergence in crowdedChenopodium albumstands

(2012) Hisae Nagashima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Beyond the sine law of plant gravitropism

(2012) J. Dumais   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unifying model of shoot gravitropism reveals proprioception as a central feature of posture control in plants

(2012) R. Bastien et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant growth and architectural modelling and its applications

(2011) Yan Guo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Self-organizing tree models for image synthesis

(2009) Wojciech Palubicki et al.   ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS

The power and control of gravitropic movements in plants: a biomechanical and systems biology view

(2009) Bruno Moulia et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY