Mathematical Modelling in Plant Biology

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Morris

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Progress in plant biology relies on the quantification, analysis and mathematical modeling of data over different time and length scales. This book describes common mathematical and computational approaches as well as some carefully chosen case studies that demonstrate the use of these techniques to solve problems at the forefront of plant biology. Each chapter is written by an expert in field with the goal of conveying concepts whilst at the same time providing sufficient background and links to available software for readers to rapidly build their own models and run their own simulations. This book is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers working the field of plant systems biology and synthetic biology, but will also be a useful reference for anyone wanting to get into quantitative plant biology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Physical Models of Plant Morphogenesis (Mathilde Dumond, Arezki Boudaoud)....Pages 1-14
Fluid Transport in Plants (M. G. Blyth, R. J. Morris)....Pages 15-36
Modelling Ion Channels (K. C. A. Wedgwood, J. Tabak, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova)....Pages 37-52
Modelling the Plant Microtubule Cytoskeleton (Eva E. Deinum, Bela M. Mulder)....Pages 53-67
Bridging Scales from Protein Function to Whole-Plant Water Relations with the OnGuard Platform (Maria Papanatsiou, Adrian Hills, Michael R. Blatt)....Pages 69-86
Single-Cell Approaches for Understanding Morphogenesis Using Computational Morphodynamics (Pau Formosa-Jordan, José Teles, Henrik Jönsson)....Pages 87-106
Modeling Plant Tissue Growth and Cell Division (Gabriella Mosca, Milad Adibi, Soeren Strauss, Adam Runions, Aleksandra Sapala, Richard S. Smith)....Pages 107-138
Modeling Plant Development with L-Systems (Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mikolaj Cieslak, Pascal Ferraro, Jim Hanan)....Pages 139-169
Flowering Time as a Model Trait to Bridge Proximate and Evolutionary Questions (Akiko Satake)....Pages 171-194
All But Sleeping? Consequences of Soil Seed Banks on Neutral and Selective Diversity in Plant Species (Daniel Živković, Aurélien Tellier)....Pages 195-212
Back Matter ....Pages 213-219

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Plant Sciences; Systems Biology; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics