title: Moving with the flow: what transport laws reveal about cell division and expansion.
abstract: This material was presented as a keynote talk for the symposium, "Crosstalk between cell division and expansion," organized by G.T.S. Beemster and H. Tsukaya at the International Botanical Congress, Vienna in July, 2005. The review focuses on the utility of continuity equations to understand relationships among cell size, division and expansion; insights from Lagrangian or cell-specific descriptions of developmental variables; and a growth-diffusion equation to show effects of root growth zones on the surrounding soil.
authors.affiliation: Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8627, USA. wksilk@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Wendy Kuhn
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Silk
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology*; D049108:Cell Enlargement; D008954:Models, Biological; D059828:Plant Cells; D063245:Plant Development; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000254:growth & development; D012987:Soil
chemical_list: D012987:Soil