Next time you go outside, take a minute to look at your local leaf arrangements. You’ll probably notice a few different patterns. In basil plants, each leaf is about 90 degrees — a quarter-turn — from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using the plant model Arabidopsis, the relationship between day length, the size of the shoot apical meristem, and the robustness of ...

"This book is devoted to anyone who is in search of a beauty in mathematics and mathematics in the beauty around us. Attempting to combine mathematical rigor and magnificence of the visual perception, ...

Leaf arrangement with one leaf per node is called alternate phyllotaxis whereas arrangement with two or more leaves per node is called whorled phyllotaxis. Common alternate types are distichous ...

According to Charles Darwin, attempts to explain the mathematical patterns of phyllotaxis — the arrangements of leaves or florets on a plant stem — could “drive the sanest man mad”. That hasn't served ...