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Pathological morphogenesis on leaves of Fraxinus ornus (ash) and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) under the influence of mites (Aceria fraxinivora and Eriophyes cladophthirus respectively) leads to a range of structures whose morphology and development cannot be reduced to the classical categories of plant morphology, but present a heterogeneous continuum which links fundamental structural categories. These findings support the pyramid model of plant construction.
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Anthony, M., Sattler, R. Pathological ramification of leaves and the pyramid model of plant construction. Acta Biotheor 38, 165–170 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047238
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