Posture control and skeletal mechanical acclimation in terrestrial plants: Implications for mechanical modeling of plant architecture

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1477-1489

  Moulia, Bruno ^a   Coutand, Catherine ^a   Lenne, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Architecture; Biomechanics; Equilibration; Grasses; Gravitropism; Mechanosensing; Modeling; Trees

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; GROWTH; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MODELING; PERCEPTION; POSTURE; TREE;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EQUISETOPHYTA; POACEAE;

EID: 33750488720     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: 00029122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.93.10.1477     Document Type: Review

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