A SPECTRAL-ANALYSIS TOOL FOR NATURAL SYST EMS WITH REGULAR PAVING-LIKE PATTERN - APPLICATION TO THE PHYLLOTAXY OF LEPIDODENDRON

Authors
DESMET M SCHAAF A
Citation
M. Desmet et A. Schaaf, A SPECTRAL-ANALYSIS TOOL FOR NATURAL SYST EMS WITH REGULAR PAVING-LIKE PATTERN - APPLICATION TO THE PHYLLOTAXY OF LEPIDODENDRON, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie, 320(2), 1995, pp. 141-144
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518069
Volume
320
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Part
2
Pages
141 - 144
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8069(1995)320:2<141:ASTFNS>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Many natural systems, such as the leaf arrangement on the plant stem, reproduce a pattern describing a fairly regular paving. There are no t ools for the morphological description of these arrangements. A spectr al analysis method, derived from that at Fry (1978) was a model built up by integrating the whole topological parameters of regular paving. Tested on the phyllotaxy of the genus Lepidodendron, this tool is of i nterest because it is applied to incomplete fragments of unknown diame ter.