Spontaneous helix hand reversal and tendril perversion in climbing plants

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1564-1567

  Goriely, Alain ^a,b   Tabor, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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EID: 0001031397     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1564     Document Type: Article

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