International audienceAlthough they lack muscle, plants have evolved a remarkable range of mechanisms to create motion, from the slow growth of shoots to the rapid snapping of carnivorous plants and the explosive rupture of seed pods. Here we review the key fluid mechanics principles used by plants to achieve movements, summarizing current knowledge and recent discoveries. We begin with a brief overview of water transport and material properties in plants and emphasize that the poroelastic timescale of water diffusion through soft plant tissue imposes constraints on the possible mechanisms for motion. We then discuss movements that rely only on the transport of water, from irreversible growth to reversible swelling/shrinking due to osmotic ...
Non-vascular plant tissues constitute a special class of poroelastic solids where closed cells encap...
Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high. However, the mechanism of how water rises ...
International audiencePlant and animal biomechanists have much in common. Although their frame of re...
International audienceAlthough they lack muscle, plants have evolved a remarkable range of mechanism...
International audienceThe ability of plants to move is central to many physiological processes from ...
Plants are dynamic. They adjust their shape for feeding, defence and reproduction. Such plant moveme...
International audienceFrom a biomechanical perspective, plants offer a fascinat- ing example of livi...
The mechanisms that move plants can serve as biological role models for engineers, designers and arc...
Fluid motion is of fundamental importance for plant survival, growth and development. This distribut...
Recent initiatives to improve global land surface models have focused on including understanding abo...
Plants are sessile organisms without nerves. As such, they have developed specific mechanisms to car...
DoctorMost previous studies have investigated the motile mechanism of plants from a biochemical pers...
Woody plants are often considered as static individuals, taking up water via the root system and los...
International audienceThis chapter provides an overview of fluid and solid mechanical concepts appli...
The origin of land plants was one of the most important events in evolutionary history of earth in t...
Non-vascular plant tissues constitute a special class of poroelastic solids where closed cells encap...
Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high. However, the mechanism of how water rises ...
International audiencePlant and animal biomechanists have much in common. Although their frame of re...
International audienceAlthough they lack muscle, plants have evolved a remarkable range of mechanism...
International audienceThe ability of plants to move is central to many physiological processes from ...
Plants are dynamic. They adjust their shape for feeding, defence and reproduction. Such plant moveme...
International audienceFrom a biomechanical perspective, plants offer a fascinat- ing example of livi...
The mechanisms that move plants can serve as biological role models for engineers, designers and arc...
Fluid motion is of fundamental importance for plant survival, growth and development. This distribut...
Recent initiatives to improve global land surface models have focused on including understanding abo...
Plants are sessile organisms without nerves. As such, they have developed specific mechanisms to car...
DoctorMost previous studies have investigated the motile mechanism of plants from a biochemical pers...
Woody plants are often considered as static individuals, taking up water via the root system and los...
International audienceThis chapter provides an overview of fluid and solid mechanical concepts appli...
The origin of land plants was one of the most important events in evolutionary history of earth in t...
Non-vascular plant tissues constitute a special class of poroelastic solids where closed cells encap...
Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high. However, the mechanism of how water rises ...
International audiencePlant and animal biomechanists have much in common. Although their frame of re...