The results of a powerful combination of computer modelling and experimental tests can account for the establishment of gradients of the plant molecule auxin and for major patterning elements in the plant root.
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Veit, B. Plumbing the pattern of roots. Nature 449, 991–992 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449991a
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