Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon 69007, France.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2011 Oct;21(5):606-11. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.07.002. Epub 2011 Aug 19.
The growth of tissues, organs or organisms derives from the coordinated activities of complex genetic regulatory networks. In addition to its molecular underpinnings, growth also generally involves significant changes in geometry. To fully understand morphogenesis in its molecular and physical contexts the development of an interdisciplinary approach is required associating biology, mathematics, and physics, which held together by computer science. Growth quantitation and digital simulations have been developed to generate and test the plausibilities of complex hypotheses. Increasingly, real-time live imaging protocols are becoming an essential part of this process. In this review, I discuss the evolution of imaging techniques in plant developmental biology and briefly examine the different ways in which these studies have shed light on growth and morphogenesis in plants.
组织、器官或生物体的生长源于复杂遗传调控网络的协调活动。除了其分子基础外，生长通常还涉及到几何形状的显著变化。为了在分子和物理背景下全面理解形态发生，需要结合生物学、数学和物理学，通过计算机科学将它们联系在一起，发展出一种跨学科的方法。生长定量和数字模拟已经被开发出来，以生成和测试复杂假设的可能性。越来越多的实时活体成像方案正成为这个过程的重要组成部分。在这篇综述中，我讨论了在植物发育生物学中成像技术的发展，并简要地考察了这些研究如何揭示植物生长和形态发生的不同方式。
