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A MODULAR APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF PLANT GROWTH
Author(s) -
PORTER J. R.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1983.tb04492.x
Subject(s) - modular design , meristem , plant growth , biology , population , botany , computer science , demography , shoot , sociology , operating system
SUMMARY The previous paper in this series argued that whole plant development is best viewed as a population‐type process in which attention is focused on the production of modular plant parts. This approach is of more relevance to quantifying whole plants architecture than conventional growth analysis. The present paper describes an experiment in which the growth of two cultivars of Fuchsia was followed as a developing system of meristems. The noted features of growth and development were the changes in numbers of meristems as the plants produced flowers, the age distribution of vegetative meristems and the probabilities of transition between different modular states as the plant developed.