2021 Volume 33 Issue 1 Pages 31-33
Recent studies on plant cell walls have shown that plants are excellent structural systems that can flexibly change their morphology in response to various external perturbations. In order to properly understand the flexibility of plants, a coordinated research design that carefully combines measurement techniques for plant mechanical properties, imaging techniques for accurately depicting shape, and theoretical biological approaches is required. In order to promote this kind of interdisciplinary collaborative research, we organized an interdisciplinary symposium at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan under the co-hosting of the Japanese Society of Plant Morphology and the project team ‘Elucidation of the strategies of mechanical optimization in plants toward the establishment of the bases for sustainable structure system’.
