A Dynamical Phyllotaxis Model to Determine Floral Organ Number
Fig 7
Effects of λini, λg, and α on merosities.
Superposition of the analytical result (the solid lines are identical to Fig 5E: λini = λg = 10.0, α = 0.0, PMP = 0) and the numerical result (σr = σθ = 0.05; the following parameters are different from the solid line: A. λini = 5.0, B. λini = 20.0, C. α = 2.0 D. α = 2.0, λini = 20.0, E. λg = 5.0, F. λg = 20.0). The colors follow Fig 3. λg and α affect the boundary lines between each whorl as well as that between non-whorls and tetramerous whorls (C, E and F), whereas λini hardly affects at α = 0 (A and B). At α ≠ 0, α and λini synergistically affect the phase boundaries (C and D).