Complexity and information in regular and random phyllotactic patterns

Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-102

  Barabé, Denis ^a   Jeune, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Development; Entropy; Mutants; Order; Patterns; Phyllotaxis

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33745783120     PISSN: 22822593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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