Spontaneous Helix Hand Reversal and Tendril Perversion in Climbing Plants
- 16 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (7) , 1564-1567
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.1564
Abstract
The helix hand reversal exhibited by the tendrils of climbing plants when attached to a support is investigated. Modeled as a thin elastic rod with intrinsic curvature, a linear and nonlinear stability analysis shows the problem to be a paradigm for curvature induced morphogenesis in which symmetry breaking is constrained by a global invariant.Keywords
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