Teratology and metameric plant construction

Summary The growth of Plantago lanceolata L. has been described using metamers as construction units. The growth of each unit has been broken down into a sequence of four simple building instructions, two of which incorporate two or three alternatives. The resulting conceptual model has been tested...

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Published inThe New phytologist Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 171 - 178
Main Author Groenendael, J.M. van
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Academic Press 1985
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Blackwell
Subjects
abnormal development
Biological and medical sciences
construction unit
Developmental biology
Flowering
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
growth
Mathematical sequences
Meristems
metamer
Modeling
Plant growth
Plant morphology
Plant physiology and development
Plantago lanceolata
Plants
Seeds
Teratology
Vegetatiekunde, plantenoecologie en onkruidkunde
Vegetation Science, Plant Ecology and Weed Science
Vegetative apparatus, growth and morphogenesis. Senescence
Plantaginaceae
Plantago lanceolata
Dicotyledones
Angiospermae
Spermatophyta
Models
Teratology
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Summary:Summary The growth of Plantago lanceolata L. has been described using metamers as construction units. The growth of each unit has been broken down into a sequence of four simple building instructions, two of which incorporate two or three alternatives. The resulting conceptual model has been tested against a variety of teratologies known to exist in Plantago lanceolata. All of these malformations could be explained in terms of either wrong steps, or wrong sequences, or both. There seems to be a certain hierarchy of control such that more malformations tend to occur at tertiary meristems than at primary meristems. For at least some of the teratologies, the nature of the control seems genetic.
ISSN:0028-646X
1469-8137
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1985.tb03646.x