Dynamic scaling in the growth of a non-branching plant, Cardiocrinum cordatum.

We investigated whole-plant leaf area in relation to ontogenetic variation in leaf-size for a forest perennial herb, Cardiocrinum cordatum. The 200-fold ontogenetic variability in C. cordatum leaf area followed a power-law dependence on total leaf number, a measure of developmental stage. When we no...

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Main Authors: Kohei Koyama, Yoshiki Hidaka, Masayuki Ushio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3446904?pdf=render