Auxin transport model for leaf venation

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2019.0015zbMATH Open1472.92147arXiv1901.03244OpenAlexW3101699031WikidataQ91866587 ScholiaQ91866587MaRDI QIDQ5160797FDOQ5160797

Authors: Jan Haškovec, Henrik Jönsson, Lisa Maria Kreusser, Peter Alexander Markowich 

Publication date: 29 October 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The plant hormone auxin controls many aspects of the development of plants. One striking dynamical feature is the self-organisation of leaf venation patterns which is driven by high levels of auxin within vein cells. The auxin transport is mediated by specialised membrane-localised proteins. Many venation models have been based on polarly localised efflux-mediator proteins of the PIN family. Here, we investigate a modeling framework for auxin transport with a positive feedback between auxin fluxes and transport capacities that are not necessarily polar, i.e. directional across a cell wall. Our approach is derived from a discrete graph-based model for biological transportation networks, where cells are represented by graph nodes and intercellular membranes by edges. The edges are not a-priori oriented and the direction of auxin flow is determined by its concentration gradient along the edge. We prove global existence of solutions to the model and the validity of Murray's law for its steady states. Moreover, we demonstrate with numerical simulations that the model is able connect an auxin source-sink pair with a mid-vein and that it can also produce branching vein patterns. A significant innovative aspect of our approach is that it allows the passage to a formal macroscopic limit which can be extended to include network growth. We perform mathematical analysis of the macroscopic formulation, showing the global existence of weak solutions for an appropriate parameter range.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03244

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zbMATH Keywords

differential equationsnumerical simulationweak solutionsmathematical modellingcontinuum limitapplied mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Plant biology (92C80)

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