Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics

43, 4, pp. 805-812, Warsaw 2005

Structural control in tissue development

Ryszard Wojnar
Occurrence of defects begins a process of destruction of a crystal, its existence is, however, necessary for the crystal growth. In an analogous manner as in propagation of defects during crystallization, the growing of a tissue stress leads to buckling and undulation down to order of the cell diameter. It is shown that the structural control in a tissue development is accomplished by wave-like rearrangement of 5-7 dislocations. The oriented cell divisions as 5-7 climbing can be explained analogously.
Keywords: 2D crystallization; phyllotaxis; dislocations; plasticity; gliding and climbing dislocations; control