Packing efficiency in sunflower heads

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(82)90056-6zbMATH Open0487.92001OpenAlexW2070608869MaRDI QIDQ1165784FDOQ1165784

Authors: J. N. Ridley 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(82)90056-6

zbMATH Keywords

Fibonacci numbersdivergence angleseeds on sunflower head

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

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• Physical phenomenology of phyllotaxis
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• A synergic approach to plant pattern generation
• Limit of ratio of consecutive terms for general order-\(k\) linear homogeneous recurrences with constant coefficients
• Fibonacci-like sequences and generalized Pascal's triangles
• Fibonacci sequence, golden section, Kalman filter and optimal control
• Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices

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