A method to generate the surface cell layer of the 3D virtual shoot apex from apical initials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development of cell pattern in the surface cell layer of the shoot apex can be investigated in vivo by use of a time-lapse confocal images, showing naked meristem in 3D in successive times. However, how this layer is originated from apical initials and develops as a result of growth and divisions of their descendants, remains unknown. This is an open area for computer modelling. A method to generate the surface cell layer is presented on the example of the 3D paraboloidal shoot apical dome. In the used model the layer originates from three apical initials that meet at the dome summit and develops through growth and cell divisions under the isotropic surface growth, defined by the growth tensor. The cells, which are described by polyhedrons, divide anticlinally with t

SUBMITTER: Kucypera K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725887 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature