Plant Biomechanics From Structure to Function at Multiple Scales /

This book provides important insights into the operating principles of plants by highlighting the relationship between structure and function. It describes the quantitative determination of structural and mechanical parameters, such as the material properties of a tissue, in correlation with specifi...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319790992
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Table of Contents:
  • Organ and Tissue Mechanics
  • Wood cell wall structure and organization in relation to mechanics
  • Modelling, evaluation and biomechanical consequences of growth stress profiles inside tree stems
  • Bending stress in plant stems: Models and assumptions
  • Tree mechanics and wind loading
  • Growth, Morphogenesis & Motion
  • The mechanics of leaf growth on large scales
  • Twisting growth in plant roots
  • Plants at bodybuilding: development of plant "muscles"
  • Modeling plant morphogenesis: An introduction
  • Mechanical conflicts in growth heterogeneity
  • Folding, wrinkling and buckling in plant cell walls
  • Structural principles in the design of hygroscopically moving plant cells
  • Using modeling to understand the hygromechanical and hysteretic behavior of the S2 cell wall layer of wood
  • Molecular Underpinnings of Cell Wall Mechanics
  • Calcium-pectin chemistry and biomechanics: Biological background and mathematical modelling
  • Cell wall expansion as viewed by the creep method
  • Tensile testing of primary plant cells and tissues.+- Water Transport, Mechanosensing & Biomimetics
  • Water motion and sugar translocation in leaves
  • Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensing and mechanotransduction
  • Biomechanics and functional morphology of plants - inspiration for biomimetic materials and structures.