Physical Phenomenology of Phyllotaxis
arXiv:1011.1981 · doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.03.037
Abstract
We propose an evolutionary mechanism of phyllotaxis, regular arrangement of leaves on a plant stem. It is shown that the phyllotactic pattern with the Fibonacci sequence has a selective advantage, for it involves the least number of phyllotactic transitions during plant growth.