Packing efficiency in sunflower heads

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(82)90056-6MaRDI QIDQ1165784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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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• Tribonacci-like sequences and generalized Pascal's pyramids
• Physical phenomenology of phyllotaxis
• Discrete Lattices on the Single Bearing Spiral: From Geometry to Botany
• A synergic approach to plant pattern generation
• Limit of ratio of consecutive terms for general order-k linear homogeneous recurrences with constant coefficients
• Fibonacci sequence, golden section, Kalman filter and optimal control
• Fibonacci-like sequences and generalized Pascal's triangles
• Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices

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