Surface curvature both emerges from, and influences the behavior of, living objects at length
scales ranging from cell membranes to single cells to tissues and organs. The relevance of …

Seeds are central to crop production, human nutrition, and food security. A key component of
the performance of crop seeds is the complex trait of seed vigour. Crop yield and resource …

INTRODUCTION In plants, vascular tissues serve a dual function by providing both structural
support and transport of water, nutrients, hormones, and other signaling molecules …

Many organisms evolved strategies to survive desiccation. Plant seeds protect dehydrated
embryos from various stressors and can lay dormant for millennia. Hydration is the key …

Cells maintain integrity despite changes in their mechanical properties elicited during
growth and environmental stress. How cells sense their physical state and compensate for …

Motivation: Mathematical morphology (MM) provides many powerful operators for
processing 2D and 3D images. However, most MM plugins currently implemented for the …

Intestinal organoids derived from single cells undergo complex crypt–villus patterning and
morphogenesis. However, the nature and coordination of the underlying forces remains …

Cell walls are highly dynamic structures that provide mechanical support for plant cells
during growth, development and adaptation to a changing environment. Thus, it is important …

Growth is a widely used term in plant science and ecology, but it can have different
meanings depending on the context and the spatiotemporal scale of analysis. At the …

Root systems can display variable architectures that contribute to survival strategies of
plants. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana possesses a tap root system, in which the …