Evolution and Development of Inflorescence Architectures

Evolution and development of inflorescence architectures.

To understand the constraints on biological diversity, we analyzed how selection and development interact to control the evolution of inflorescences, the branching structures that bear flowers. We show that a single developmental model accounts for the restricted range of inflorescence types observed in nature and that this model is supported by molecular genetic studies. The model predicts ass...

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Genetics and evolution of inflorescence and flower development in grasses.

Inflorescences and flowers in the grass species have characteristic structures that are distinct from those in eudicots. Owing to the availability of genetic tools and their genome sequences, rice and maize have become model plants for the grasses and for the monocots in general. Recent studies have provided much insight into the genetic control of inflorescence and flower development in grasse...

Evolution and Development of Control Architectures

This paper successively describes the works of Boers & Kuiper, Gruau, Cangelosi et al., Vaario, Dellaert & Beer, and Sims, which all evolve the developmental program of an arti cial nervous system. The potentialities of these approaches for automatically devising a control architecture linking the perceptions and the actions of an animat are then discussed, together with their possible contribu...

Evaluating Software Architectures: Development, Stability, and Evolution

We survey seminal work on software architecture evaluation methods. We then look at an emerging class of methods that explicates evaluating software architectures for stability and evolution. We define architectural stability and formulate the problem of evaluating software architectures for stability and evolution. We draw the attention on the use of Architectures Description Languages (ADLs) ...