Pollen tube growth: Getting a grip on cell biology through modeling

Mechanics Research Communications

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-39

  Kroeger, Jens H ^a   Geitmann, Anja ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feedback mechanism; Intracellular transport; Modeling; Oscillation; Pollen tube growth

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELLS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS; CELL BIOLOGY; CELL TYPES; CELLULAR GROWTH; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FEEDBACK REGULATION; GROWTH PROCESS; INTEGRAL PART; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL PROBLEMS; MODEL SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; POLLEN TUBE; POLLEN TUBE GROWTH; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SHAPE GENERATIONS; TURGOR PRESSURE;

CYTOLOGY; MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TUBES (COMPONENTS);

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 84860705781     PISSN: 00936413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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