Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

Cellular Automata; decision-making; decentralised information processing; collective behaviour; plant development

Publicerad i

Trends in Plant Science
2023,

SLU författare

• Bhalerao, Rishikesh P.

  • Institutionen för skoglig genetik och växtfysiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Botanik


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.006

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128335