Plant hairy root cultures as plasmodium modulators of the slime mold emergent computing substrate Physarum polycephalum [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Roots of the medicinal plant Valeriana officinalis are well studied for their various biological activities. We applied genetically transformed V. officinalis root cultures to exert control of Physarum polycephalum, an amoeba-based emergent computing ...
Vincent eRicigliano +4 more
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Salt affects structure, function and transcriptome in the giant cells of slime molds [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSalt is essential for life, though excessive intake disrupts the balance of body fluids in multicellular organisms like humans. We wondered what happens when body fluids circulate in a single cell.
Beatriz Sánchez-Parra +3 more
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Biological activities and chemical compositions of slime tracks and crude exopolysaccharides isolated from plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum and Physarella oblonga [PDF]
BMC Biotechnology, 2017 Background The myxomycetes derive their common name (slime molds) from the multinucleate trophic stage (plasmodium) in the life cycle, which typically produces a noticeable amount of slimy materials, some of which is normally left behind as a “slime ...
Tuyen T.M Huynh +3 more
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Bioinspired algorithm based on Physarum polycephalum for the formation of decentralized mesh networks in multi-robot systems [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis work proposes a bio-inspired approach for decentralized coordination in multi-robot systems, applied to a simulated port scenario. The methodology integrates the Robot Operating System (ROS) with the Stage simulator, enabling modeling of a port ...
Dieisson Martinelli +2 more
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Information Transfer During Food Choice in the Slime Mold Physarum polycephalum
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Throughout evolution, living systems have developed mechanisms to make adaptive decisions in the face of complex and changing environmental conditions. Most organisms make such decisions despite lacking a neural architecture.
Simon Garnier +2 more
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Hydrophobic Barriers for Directing Physarum polycephalum Propulsion and Navigation [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2023 Taeha Lee +8 more
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An active poroelastic model for mechanochemical patterns in protoplasmic droplets of Physarum polycephalum. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Motivated by recent experimental studies, we derive and analyze a two-dimensional model for the contraction patterns observed in protoplasmic droplets of Physarum polycephalum.
Markus Radszuweit +2 more
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Novel image-analytic approach reveals new insights in fine-tuning of slime mould network adaptation [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThis study introduces a novel methodology to explore the network dynamics of Physarum polycephalum, an organism celebrated for its remarkable adaptive capabilities.
Philipp Rosina, Martin Grube
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Using an Artificial Physarum polycephalum Colony for Threshold Image Segmentation
Applied Sciences, 2023 Traditional artificial intelligence algorithms are prone to falling into local optima when solving threshold segmentation problems. Here, a novel artificial Physarum polycephalum colony algorithm is proposed to help us solve the difficult problem. First,
Zhengying Cai +3 more
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Swarm Robot Exploration Strategy for Path Formation Tasks Inspired by Physarum polycephalum
Complexity, 2021 Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular and multiheaded slime mould, can form highly efficient networks connecting separated food sources during the process of foraging.
Yandong Luo +4 more
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