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I was asked by Rolf Sattler, the convener of this symposium, to summarize the assumptions which underlie the plant growth models introduced by Ralph Erickson. I will discuss some of Erickson’s basic assumptions as he has stated them in a number of publications and their relationship to other more or less explicitly stated sets of growth rules. I will concentrate on his models concerning the growth of whole plant organs, such as roots, leaves, shoot apices and hypocotyls. His work on cell growth and cell wall extension, though related mathematically to the growth models of plant organs, refer to different sorts of developmental phenomena, and are by necessity of space limitation not considered. For the same reason I cannot discuss his mathematical description of helically packed molecular structures.
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Lindenmayer, A. (1982). Rules of Growth: Some Comments on Erickson’s Models of Plant Growth. In: Sattler, R. (eds) Axioms and Principles of Plant Construction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7636-8_8
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