Morphogenesis

by Turing, Alan

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Full title :Morphogenesis / edited by P.T. Saunders.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1992.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co, North-Holland
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:1992.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxv, 131 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780080934051, 0080934056
oclc:ocn680063781
LC Classification:QK665
Dewey Decimal:581.4

Front Cover ; Morphogenesis; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Alan Mathison Turing -- Chronology; Preface to this volume; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF MORPHOGENESIS; 1. A MODEL OF THE EMBRYO. MORPHOGENS; 2. MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND REQUIRED; 3. CHEMICAL REACTIONS; 4. THE BREAKDOWN OF SYMMETRY AND HOMOGENEITY; 5. LEFT-HANDED AND RIGHT-HANDED ORGANISMS; 6. REACTIONS AND DIFFUSION IN A RING OF CELLS; 7. CONTINUOUS RING OF TISSUE; 8. TYPES OF ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE RING AFTER A LAPSE OF TIME; 9. FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE MATHEMATICS OF THE RING.

10. A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE11. RESTATEMENT AND BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS; 13. NON-LINEAR THEORY. USE OF DIGITAL COMPUTERS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. A DIFFUSION REACTION THEORY OF MORPHOGENESIS IN PLANTS; I. Introduction; II. General analysis of pattern in plants; III. Turing's diffusion-reaction theory of morphogenesis; IV. Tests of the theory; CHAPTER 3. MORPHOGEN THEORY OF PHYLLOTAXIS; Part I. Geometrical and Descriptive Phyllotaxis; 1. A description of certain leaf distribution patterns; 2. Helical coordinates for a phyllotactic system; 3. Parastichies and parastichy numbers.

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Subjects

Biochemie Biomathematik Mathematisches Modell morfogenese Morphogenèse Pflanzen Phyllotaxie Phyllotaxie -- Modèles mathématiques Phyllotaxis Phyllotaxis -- Mathematical models Plant morphogenesis Plant morphogenesis -- Mathematical mod… Planten Plantes -- Morphogenèse Plants SCIENCE -- Life Sciences Wiskundige modellen