In 2008, we published an article proposing that the microtubular cytoskeleton in plants use maximal tensile stress directions to guide organ growth []. Yves Couder was instrumental in that project. Here are some memories and prospects from this collaborative and interdisciplinary endeavor.
Jan Traas 1; Olivier Hamant 1
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Jan Traas; Olivier Hamant. Yves Couder: Putting mechanics back into the shoot apical meristem. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Tribute to an exemplary man: Yves Couder, Volume 348 (2020) no. 6-7, pp. 679-684. doi : 10.5802/crmeca.19. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.5802/crmeca.19/
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