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Moving with the flow: what transport laws reveal about cell division and expansion

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This material was presented as a keynote talk for the symposium, “Crosstalk between cell division and expansion,” organized by G.T.S. Beemster and H. Tsukaya at the International Botanical Congress, Vienna in July, 2005. The review focuses on the utility of continuity equations to understand relationships among cell size, division and expansion; insights from Lagrangian or cell-specific descriptions of developmental variables; and a growth–diffusion equation to show effects of root growth zones on the surrounding soil.

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The author’s work reviewed here has had support from the United States National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Kearney Foundation for Soil Science.

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Silk, W.K. Moving with the flow: what transport laws reveal about cell division and expansion. J Plant Res 119, 23–29 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-005-0248-9

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