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Auxin — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. 48 cells with a carrier that pumps auxin up the gradient. Each short line is one cell's polarisation — the neighbour it pumps towards, which is always the richer one. 10 peaks come out, at a contrast of 93%, from a start that was uniform to within 6%.

    A pump that works uphill

    The mechanism that actually has molecular support behind it does not use a diffusing inhibitor at all. Cells move auxin towards whichever neighbour already has more of it, which is the opposite of what transport is supposed to do — and it produces a spacing from a field that started uniform to within six per cent.

    part 2 · mechanism

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