{"id":210371,"date":"2025-04-02T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-physical-forces-shape-plants-from-the-inside-out-to-generate-their-complex-3d-shapes"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:32:16","slug":"how-physical-forces-shape-plants-from-the-inside-out-to-generate-their-complex-3d-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-physical-forces-shape-plants-from-the-inside-out-to-generate-their-complex-3d-shapes","title":{"rendered":"How physical forces shape plants from the inside out to generate their complex 3D shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-physical-forces-shape-plants-from-the-inside-out-to-generate-their-complex-3d-shapes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants don\u2019t just grow, they build. From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes are sculpted with remarkable precision. Now a study by biologists and biophysicists at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al reveals how plants build their organs in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>Anthers\u2014the male reproductive organs of flowers\u2014are crucial structures responsible for producing and releasing pollen and play a key role in fertilization, a process necessary for fruit and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/seed+production\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">seed production<\/a>, the scientists say in their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41477-025-01944-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> last week in Nature Plants.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time that scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ based on experimental data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants don\u2019t just grow, they build. From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes are sculpted with remarkable precision. Now a study by biologists and biophysicists at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al reveals how plants build their organs in three dimensions. Anthers\u2014the male reproductive organs of flowers\u2014are crucial structures responsible for producing and releasing pollen and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}