Swarming behavior in plant roots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ciszak, Marzena ^a,b   Comparini, Diego ^b   Mazzolai, Barbara ^c   Baluska, Frantisek ^d   Arecchi, F Tito ^a,b   Vicsek, Tamás ^e   Mancuso, Stefano ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Center for Micro BioRobotics at SSSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; ROOT GROWTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM;

ZEA MAYS;

ALGORITHMS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84855853709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029759     Document Type: Article

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