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A viscoelastic-plastic deformation model of hemisphere-like tip growth in Arabidopsis zygotes

Kang, Z.; Nonoyama, T.; Ishimoto, Y.; Matsumoto, H.; Nakagawa, S.; Ueda, M.; Tsugawa, S.

2024-07-19 plant biology
10.1101/2024.07.17.603843 bioRxiv
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Plant zygote cells exhibit tip growth, producing a hemisphere-like tip. To understand how this hemisphere-like tip shape is formed, we revisited a viscoelastic-plastic deformation model that enabled us to simultaneously evaluate the shape, stress, and strain of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) zygote cells undergoing tip growth. Altering the spatial distribution of cell wall extensibility revealed that cosine-type distribution and growth in a normal direction to the surface creates a stable hemisphere-like tip shape. Assuming these as constraints for cell elongation, we determined the best-fitting parameters for turgor pressure and wall extensibility to computationally reconstruct an elongating zygote that retained its hemisphere-like shape using only cell contour data, leading to formulation of non-dimensional growth parameters. Our computational results demonstrate the different morphologies in elongating zygotes through effective non-dimensional parameters.

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