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Simulation of the growth patterns of plants on computers provides a new approach to the study of some basic problems of morphogenesis.
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COHEN, D. Computer Simulation of Biological Pattern Generation Processes. Nature 216, 246–248 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216246a0
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