Andrew Owens

Oct 11, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Andrew Owens |Teng Zhang |Jeremy Hart |Philmo Gu

AbstractVascular systems are intimately related to the shape and spatial arrangement of the plant organs they support. We investigate the largely unexplored association between spiral phyllotaxis and the vascular system in Asteraceae flowers heads. We imaged heads of eight species using synchrotron-based X-ray micro-computed tomography and applied original virtual reality and haptic software to explore head vasculature in three dimensions.