Bhalerao, Rishikesh P.
- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2024Peer reviewedOpen access
Toward uncovering an operating system in plant organs
V. Davis, Gwendolyn; Moraes, Tatiana de Souza; Khanapurkar, Swanand; Dromiack, Hannah; Ahmad, Zaki; Bayer, Emmanuelle M.; Bhalerao, Rishikesh P.; Walker, Sara I.; Bassel, George W.
Abstract
Molecular motifs can explain information processing within single cells, while how assemblies of cells collectively achieve this remains less well understood. Plant fitness and survival depend upon robust and accurate decision-making in their decentralised multicellular organ systems. Mobile agents, including hormones, metabolites, and RNAs, have a central role in coordinating multicellular collective decision-making, yet mechanisms describing how cell-cell communication scales to organ-level transitions is poorly understood. Here, we explore how unified outputs may emerge in plant organs by distributed information processing across different scales and using different modalities. Mathematical and computational representations of these events are also explored toward understanding how these events take place and are leveraged to manipulate plant development in response to the environment.
Keywords
Cellular Automata; decision-making; decentralised information processing; collective behaviour; plant development
Published in
Trends in Plant Science
2024, Volume: 29, number: 7, pages: 742-753 Publisher: CELL PRESS
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Botany
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.006
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/131434