How Can Plants Choose the Most Promising Organs? - Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life - page 58

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difference here being that the bud is not morphologically below the leaves
that inhibit its development. Space limitations preclude the consideration
of quantitative evidence that developmental rates are of critical importance
in the criteria used by the plant (Novoplansky 1996, 2003).
Finally, individual leaves can be removed (Sachs and Hassidim 1996).
When this was done to the larger of two somewhat unequal shoots there
was an increased chance of its losing a dominant position (Fig. 4.3a, cf.
Fig. 4.1d). The removal of a developing leaf has a larger effect than the