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Branching, Bilateral Structures and Mitotic Crisis in Antithamnion Plumula

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Plants are considered as archetypes of the ramification phenomenon but numerous elementary processes occur in the elaboration of the shaping of each species. This paper aims to identify the part ascribed to different mechanisms in the morphogenesis of a Thallophyte, the red alga Antihamnion plumula.

Agonistic-antagonistic models (Bernard-Weil, 1988) can be applied to this alga whose thallus includes two different kinds of whorls, pleuridian and cladomian. In each whorl the agonistic and antagonistic effects are expressed by the full development (S) of the two branches and by their symmetry rate (R) respectively. Variations in S and R show the existence of particular pleuridian whorls having an intermediary dissymmetry and a rhythmic arrangement similarly to that of the cladomian whorls. A unilateral change of the system (removal of a lateral cladome) induces a transitory destabilisation mainly manifested by the stimulating ascendant flow throughout the thallus.

These results add to our knowledge on A. plumula morphogenesis. In particular the notion of “mitotic crisis”, previously applied to this cladomothallus development, acquires a new significance. Moreover, the results highlight the building power of conflict and co-operation simultaneously involved in plant branching.

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Lambert, C., L'Hardy-Halos, MT. Branching, Bilateral Structures and Mitotic Crisis in Antithamnion Plumula. Acta Biotheor 47, 309–327 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002655108602

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