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  • Plant biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Morphogenesis

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  • Understanding plant leaf growth is crucial for developmental biology.
  • Quantifying growth patterns in biological tissues presents significant challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method for analyzing plant leaf growth dynamics.
  • To predict local displacement fields within a leaf blade based on contour changes.

Main Methods:

  • Computed conformal transformations to map leaf contours between different growth stages.
  • Utilized the derived mapping to predict local displacement fields.
  • Compared predicted displacement fields with experimentally measured data.

Main Results:

  • The conformal mapping accurately represented the growth transformation of the leaf contour.
  • Predicted displacement fields showed high agreement (92%) with experimentally measured fields.
  • The approach demonstrated applicability to any 2D system with locally isotropic growth.

Conclusions:

  • Conformal transformations provide a powerful tool for quantifying growth in 2D biological systems.
  • Leaf contour dynamics can effectively predict internal tissue displacement.
  • This method simplifies the deduction of complex growth fields from observable boundary changes.