Conn, A., Pedmale, U. V., Chory, J., Navlakha, S. (July 2017) High-Resolution Laser Scanning Reveals Plant Architectures that Reflect Universal Network Design Principles. Cell Syst, 5 (1). 53-62.e3. ISSN 2405-4712 (Print)2405-4712
Abstract
Transport networks serve critical functions in biological and engineered systems, and yet their design requires trade-offs between competing objectives. Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants need to optimize their architecture to efficiently acquire and distribute resources while also minimizing costs in building infrastructure. To understand how plants resolve this design trade-off, we used high-precision three-dimensional laser scanning to map the architectures of tomato, tobacco, or sorghum plants grown in several environmental conditions and through multiple developmental time points, scanning in total 505 architectures from 37 plants. Using a graph-theoretic algorithm that we developed to evaluate design strategies, we find that plant architectures lie along the Pareto front between two simple length-based objectives-minimizing total branch length and minimizing nutrient transport distance-thereby conferring a selective fitness advantage for plant transport processes. The location along the Pareto front can distinguish among species and conditions, suggesting that during evolution, natural selection may employ common network design principles despite different optimization trade-offs.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 3D scanning Pareto optimality biological trade-offs plant shoot architectures transport network design |
| Subjects: | organism description > plant behavior organism description > plant |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Pedmale lab CSHL labs > Navlakha lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 26 July 2017 |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2017 17:37 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2019 19:25 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35241 |
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