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Persistent homology and the branching topologies of plants
Mao Li1, Keith Duncan1, Christopher N Topp2
1Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63132 USA.
American Journal of Botany
|March 26, 2017
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