Universitaet Bern Institute of Plant Sciences swissuniversity.ch  
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Shoot apical meristem

The vegetative shoot apical meristem consists of a small group of dividing cells, which give rise to leaf primordia in very regular and predictable temporal and spatial patterns.

Organ positioning, or phyllotaxis, is characterized by the divergence angles between the organs, the most common angle being 137.5°, the golden angle. We are interested in understanding the biochemical, physical and mathematical basis of this regularity.

 
Vegetative tomato shoot apical meristem

 
Funded by

SystemsX.ch
(the Swiss initiative in systems biology)

 

The mechanisms of PIN1-based patterning (for more information please click on the names)

Reinhardt 2000, 2003

Smith 2006

Bayer 2009

Yoshida 2011

Guenot 2012

Kierzkowski unpubl

 

The mechanics of morphogenesis

Fleming 1997

Nakayama 2012

Kierzkowski-Routier 2012

Kierzkowski 2012