Climbing plants require an external support to grow vertically and enhance light acquisition.
Vines that find a suitable support have greater performance and fitness than those that …

The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of individual drought, heat, and
combined drought and heat stress on tomato plants. Combined stress resulted in the higher …

Circumnutation is a helical organ movement widespread among plants. It is variable due to
a different magnitude of trajectory (amplitude) outlined by the organ tip, duration of one cycle …

Simple Summary Intrigued by the ability of climbing peas to detect and grasp structures such
as garden reeds, we adapted a method classically used to investigate the grasping …

It has been 10 years since the publication of the first article looking at plants as a
biomechatronic system and as model for robotics. Now, roboticists have started to look at …

The continuous increase in population and human migration to urban and coastal areas
leads to the expansion of built environments over natural habitats. Current infrastructure …

Although publications on circumnutation of the aerial parts of flowering plants are numerous
and primarily from the time between Darwin (1880) and the 1950s, reports on circumnutation …

The effect of elastic deformations induced by gravity loading on the active circumnutation
movements of growing plant shoots is investigated. We consider first a discrete model (a …

Plant growth is a self-organized process incorporating distributed sensing, internal
communication and morphology dynamics. We develop a distributed mechatronic system …

In a microgravity experiment onboard the International Space Station, circumnutations of
Arabidopsis thaliana were studied. Plants were cultivated on rotors under a light: dark (LD) …