Symposium S4

Mechanics Without Muscle: Evolutionary Design of Macrophytes

Day: Monday, Jan. 4, 8:15 AM-3:00 PM
Room: 617

Organizer(s): Patrick Martone

Symposium Author(s) Title

S4		 ROWE, N.P. How do climbing plants climb?

S4		 BURGERT, I*; FRATZL, P Plant Movement Mechanisms – Cell Wall Architectures Enable Actuation without Muscles

S4		 RUEGGEBERG, M.**; BURGERT, I.; FRATZL, P. Elucidating the mechanical principles of stem movements in heliotropism

S4		 MACH, K.J.*; STAAF, A.V.; TEPLER, S.K.; BOHNHOFF, J.C.; DENNY, M.W. Killing them softly: failure by fatigue in the wave-swept macroalga Mazzaella

S4		 BOLLER, M.L. Reconfiguration and the biomechanics of flexible wave-swept macroalgae

S4		 MARTONE, Patrick T. Bending corallines: biomechanical adaptations of segmented calcified seaweeds

S4		 SEIDEL, R.*; THIELEN, M.; SCHMITT, C.; BÜHRIG-POLACZEK, A.; FLECK, C.; SPECK, T. Functional Morphology and Biomechanics of Fruit Walls and Nut Shells: Concept Generators for Innovative Biomechanic Materials

S4		 EDWARDS, J.*; WHITAKER, D.L. Floral Trebuchets, Airguns and Elaters Effect Rapid Spore Dispersal in Low Growing Plants

S4		 FULOP, D; KRAMER, EM; DUMAIS, J* Pollinarium ejection and the evolution of hypervariable male flowers in Catasetum orchids
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