Computational methods in plant developmental biology

"I wish, lovely friend, that I were able to happily hand you at once the disentangling word! — Watch now and be transformed, how bit by bit the plant-form, guided stepwise, builds to emerge in blossom and fruit! Out of the germ it unfolds, the moment the still and fertile Lap of the earth has lovingly let it go out into life, there where the charm of light, the holy eternal mover now ushers in the most delicate structures of burgeoning leaves. This was a power that simply slept in the seed; a prototype lay there closed and curled up in itself inside the husk, leaf and taproot and seed, as yet half-formed and colorless; thus the dry kernel holds and protects the dormant life, then it gushes, heaving up, trusting to milder moistures, lifts itself all at once out of the enveloping night." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The metamorphosis of plants (1790)

Computational models of plant development and form

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.04009.x

Modelling techniques to model plant development

The metaphor of developmental landscapes (Waddington’s landscape)

https://www.biologia.unipd.it/giuseppe.fusco/PDFs/2014%20Fusco%20et%20al%20OUP.pdf

Developmental processes: Differentiation, cell fate decision

Reconstructing developmental landscapes from observational data