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Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020
Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitational and other ...
James Gallentine, Michael B. Wooten, Marc Thielen, Marc Thielen, Marc Thielen, Ian D. Walker, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Karl Niklas   +10 more
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Mind the Gap: Reach and Mechanical Diversity of Searcher Shoots in Climbing Plants

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Climbing plants need to reach supports and position their leaves for light capture. Vines and lianas develop a large diversity of self-supporting shoots among diverse species and different kinds of attachment.
Tom Hattermann, Laureline Petit-Bagnard, Christine Heinz, Patrick Heuret, Nick P. Rowe   +4 more
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The Development of a Stereo Vision System to Study the Nutation Movement of Climbing Plants [PDF]

Sensors
Climbing plants, such as common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), exhibit complex motion patterns that have long captivated researchers. In this study, we introduce a stereo vision machine system for the in-depth analysis of the movement of climbing plants,
Diego Rubén Ruiz-Melero, Aditya Ponkshe, Paco Calvo, Ginés García-Mateos   +3 more
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Trichomes as a defense mechanism against climbing plants [PDF]

Plant Signaling & Behavior
Non-glandular trichomes are essential in plant defence against herbivores and water loss. However, evolutionary pressures often favor the development of multifunctional traits, suggesting that trichomes may serve multiple ecological roles. I hypothesized
Pavol Prokop
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Microspines in tropical climbing plants: a small-scale fix for life in an obstacle course. [PDF]

J Exp Bot, 2022
International audienceMany climbing plants have microspines on their stems, which facilitate attachment and prevent slipping and falling from host plant supports.
Lehnebach R, Paul-Victor C, Courric E, Rowe NP.   +3 more
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Assessment of the Potential Risk of Rock-Climbing for Cliff Plant Species and Natural Protected Areas of Spain

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In recent years, the popularity of rock-climbing has grown tremendously, setting an increasing pressure on cliff habitats. Climbing may be particularly harmful in the Mediterranean biome due to its appropriate environmental conditions for climbing. A few
Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Martí March-Salas, Juan Lorite   +2 more
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A 2D model to study how secondary growth affects the self-supporting behaviour of climbing plants. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2023
Climbing plants exhibit specialized shoots, called "searchers", to cross spaces and alternate between spatially discontinuous supports in their natural habitats. To achieve this task, searcher shoots combine both primary and secondary growth processes of
Giacomo Vecchiato, Tom Hattermann, Michele Palladino, Fabio Tedone, Patrick Heuret, Nick P Rowe, Pierangelo Marcati   +6 more
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Diversity, Pattern, and Environmental Drivers of Climbing Plants in China [PDF]

Plants
As a distinct plant functional group, climbers critically sustain ecosystem structure and function globally. However, little is known about those in China. Here, we examine the diversity and distribution of Chinese climbers at a regional scale.
Haoran Wang, Guangfu Zhang
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Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants: a bio-hybrid approach [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Plant growth is a self-organized process incorporating distributed sensing, internal communication and morphology dynamics. We develop a distributed mechatronic system that autonomously interacts with natural climbing plants, steering their behaviours to
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Ewald Neufeld, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann   +8 more
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The ability of three climbing plant species to capture particulate matter and their physiological responses at different environmental sampling sites

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
The adsorption of particulate matter (PM) by the leaves of urban plants can effectively reduce the particulate matter concentration in the atmosphere. The use of climbing plants to abate particulate matter is an important means of urban greening in China,
Xiaoqian Lyu, Lu Chang, Zhengyan Lu, Junfeng Li   +3 more
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