Mechanisms of Self-Organization of Cortical Microtubules in Plants Revealed by Computational Simulations

Plant cortical microtubules self-organize into parallel yet dispersed arrays transverse to the elongation axis of elongating plant cells. Computational modeling yields several novel predictions and shows that plus-end entrainment can give rise to order.

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