Plant Biomechanics: Using Shape to Steal Motion

Charles W. Wolgemuth

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.052

Plant Biomechanics: Using Shape to Steal Motion

Charles W. Wolgemuth

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Abstract

For grass species to spread efficiently through their environment requires seeds that can disperse over large distances and burrow into the ground. Recent work using awns from Hordeum murinum in conjunction with mathematical modelling shows that awn shape leverages environmental oscillations in order to produce these directional translations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R409-R410
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	19
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.052
State	Published - May 26 2009

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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