Combined computational modeling and experimental analysis integrating chemical and mechanical signals suggests possible mechanism of shoot meristem maintenance

• Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Kevin Rodriguez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4696-9453

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• Kevin Rodriguez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Kevin Rodriguez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5229-4106

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• Christian Michael,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3583-6097

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• Calvin-Khang Ta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-7981

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• Alexander Plong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Eric Bourgain-Chang,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Ali Nematbakhsh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7411-6039

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• Weitao Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Amit Roy-Chowdhury,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• G. Venugopala Reddy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: venug@ucr.edu (GVR); malber@ucr.edu (MA)

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Mark Alber

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: venug@ucr.edu (GVR); malber@ucr.edu (MA)

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7153-1138

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