Turing and Morphogenesis: References

This is no survey of morphogenesis: see Jean and Barabé as a starting point for that. It doesn't even list all the references used on this site yet.

Early references

L Bravais and A Bravais, 1837 ?8, Essai sur la disposition des feuilles curvisériées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Botanique (et biologie végétale) 7:42-110 and Plate 2 and 3; Essai sur la disposition symétrique des inflorescences 7:193-221 and 7:291-348 and Plates 7-11 and 8:11-42; Essai sur la disposition générale des feuilles rectisériées 1839 12:5-41 and 12:65-77. [There is a copy in the Plant Sciences library in Cambridge. I was quite excited about that because I imagined it was the copy Turing had looked at. But the pages were - after one hundred and sixty years of Cambridge indifference - uncut.]

AH Church, 1904, On the Relation of Phyllotaxis to Mechanical Laws, London: Williams and Norgate.

G van Iterson, 1907, Mathematische und Microscopisch-Anatomische Studien über Blattstellungen, nebst Betraschung über den Schalebau der Milionen, Jena: Gustav-Fischer Verlag.

AN Kolmogorov, IG Petrovsky, and NS Piskunov: Etude de l’équation de la diffusion avec croissance de la quantité de matière et son application à un problème biologique. Bulletin Université d’Etat à Moscou (Bjul. Moskowskogo Gos. Univ.), Série Internationale, Section A 1 (1937), 1–26. [Actually, I've never checked this reference or looked at it. Presumably it introduces the KPP equation I learnt about as a graduate student, in which case I'm not sure it was quite as long unknown as my quote from Jean implies].

N Rashevsky: Advances and Application of Mathematical Biology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1940. [I've never looked at this either and I am guessing this is the reference Jean meant since I've lost my notes.... ]

Schimper CF (1831). Beschreibung des Symphytum Zeyheri und seiner zwei deutschen Verwandten der S. bulborum Schimper und S. tuberosum Jacqu. Geiger’s Magazin für Pharmacie 29:1-92.

Schimper CF (1836). Geometrische Anordnung der um eine Axe Periferischen Blattgebilde, Verhandl. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 21:113-117. [I've never checked or read this reference]

Braun A (1831). Vergleichende Untersuchung ϋber die Ordnung der Schuppen an den Tannenzapfen als Einleitung zur Untersuchung der Blattstellungen Überhaupt, Verhandlung der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinsche-Carolinsched Akademie der NaturForschur 15: 195-402. [Nor this].

Richards FJ (1948). The geometry of phyllotaxis and its origin. Symposium of the Society for Experimental Biology 2:217-245.

Primary texts

AM Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (London), 237, 37-72, 1952. Also reprinted in Saunders.

PT Saunders, ed: Morphogenesis: Collected Works of AM Turing, Volume 3, North-Holland, 1992. Contains

An introduction by Saunders
A reprint of Turing (1952)
A diffusion-reaction theory of morphogenesis in plants
The morphogen theory of phyllotaxis I
The morphogen theory of phyllotaxis II
Outline of the development of the daisy

Some modern stuff

Turing

Allaerts W: Fifty years after Alan M. Turing. An extraordinary theory of morphogenesis. Belgian Journal of Zoology 133(1): 3-14 2003.

PT Saunders: Alan Turing and Biology, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 15(3):33-36, 1993

JM Bennett (1996). Ferranti recollections (1950-1965). IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 18(3), p65?.

Newman MHA (1955). Alan Mathison Turing. Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society ?vol 253-263.

Richards B (1998). The Manchester Mark I: The Turing-Richards Era. Conference: "Computers in Europe. Past, Present and Future", October 5-9, 1998, Kiev. [Website]

Phyllotaxis

Adler I (1974). A model of contact pressure in phyllotaxis, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 45:1-79.

Adler I, Barabé D and Jean RV (1997). A history of the study of phyllotaxis, Annals of Botany, 80:231-244.

Atela P, Golé C and Hotton S (2002). A dynamical system for plant pattern formation: a rigorous analysis. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 12:641-676

Douady S and Couder Y (1996), Phyllotaxis as a Dynamical Self Organizing Process (Part I, II, III), Journal of Theoretical Biology 178:255-274, 275-294, 295-312.

RV Jean: Phyllotaxis: a systemic study in plant morphogenesis. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Koch A-J, Bernasconi G and Rothen F (1998). Phyllotaxis as a geometrical and dynamical system. Chapter 18 of Jean and Barabé (1998).

Kunz M and Rothen F(1992). Phyllotaxis or the properties of spiral lattices III. An algebraic model of morphogenesis. J Phys I France 2: 2131-2172

Levitov LS (1991). Energetic Approach to Phyllotaxis. Europhysics Letters 14(6):535-539.

Mitchison GJ (1977). Phyllotaxis and the Fibonacci Series. Science, 196:270-275.

Nanjundiah V (2003). Alan Turing and ‘The Chemical basis of Morphogenesis’ , in Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Biological Systems, T. Sekimura, ed., Tokyo: Springer Verlag.

Veen AH and Lindenmayer A (1977). Diffusion mechanism for phyllotaxy. Plant Physiology 60: 127-139.

Reaction-diffusion

H Meinhardt: Models of biological pattern formation. London: Academic Press, 1982.

Wardlaw CW (1953). A commentary on Turing's diffusion-reaction theory of morphogenesis. New Phytologist 52:40-47.

Wardlaw CW (1954). Evidence relating to the diffusion-reaction theory of morphogenesis. New Phytologist 54:39-49.

Waddington, CH (1970). Towards a theoretical biology. An IUBS symposium, Villa Serbelloni, 1968. Volume 3. Drafts.