Plant stoichiometry at different scales: element concentration patterns reflect environment more than genotype

Design Patterns at Different Scales

Fetal Vegf Genotype is More Important for Abortion Risk than Mother Genotype

Background VEGF gene has been reported to be related with many diseases and recurrent pregnancy loss in various studies. VEGF polymorphisms are risk factors for pregnancy losses, and generally studies report only women’s genetic analyses. To evaluate the association between VEGF A C405G, C460T, C936T and C2578A polymorphisms and spontaneous abortion, we studied the genotypes of spontaneously a...

Competition among plant species that interact with their environment at different spatial scales.

Clonal plants that are physiologically integrated might perceive and interact with their environment at a coarser resolution than smaller, non-clonal competitors. We develop models to explore the implications of such scale asymmetries when species compete for multiple depletable resources that are heterogeneously distributed in space across two patches. Species are either 'non-integrators', who...

Modeling plant morphogenesis at different scales, from genes to phenotype

Methods for analyzing plant structure at different scales

In the framework of the modelling of plant structure and development, the main focus has been on the design of functional-structural models used in simulation experiments while far less effort has comparatively been devoted to develop dedicated analysis methods. Recent advances in biostatistics and more generally in biological data analysis are characterized by the development of dedicated meth...