| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 63, Number 1, July 2003
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 83 - 89 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00481-1 | |
| Published online | 01 June 2003 | |
Dynamical scaling analysis of plant callus growth
1
Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Aplicadas a la I.T. Agrícola Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
2
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California San Diego - 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0340, USA
3
EUIT Agrícola, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
4
Departamento de Biología Vegetal, EUIT Agrícola Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Received:
28
October
2002
Accepted:
8
May
2003
We present experimental results for the dynamical scaling properties of the development of plant calli. We have assayed two different species of plant calli, Brassica oleracea and Brassica rapa, under different growth conditions, and show that their dynamical scalings share a universality class. From a theoretical point of view, we introduce a scaling hypothesis for systems whose size evolves in time. We expect our work to be relevant for the understanding and characterization of other systems that undergo growth due to cell division and differentiation, such as, for example, tumor development.
PACS: 68.35.Ct – Interface structure and roughness / 68.35.Fx – Diffusion; interface formation / 89.75.Da – Systems obeying scaling laws
© EDP Sciences, 2003
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