Elucidating self-organized feedback-based generic phenotypic plasticity mechanisms in living matter
Authors/Creators
- 1. hD Program on Biomedical Sciences, UNAM
- 2. Centro de Biotecnolog ́ıa y Geno ́mica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- 3. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- 4. Institute of Ecology, UNAM
- 5. Institute of Ecology & Center of Complexity Sciences, UNAM
- 6. Automatic Control Department, Cinvestav-IPN
Description
We introduce a systemic methodological procedure that uncovers the systems based environmental circumstances that dynamically shape the stochastic epigenetic-landscape that underlies the regulatory processes that give rise to the root-hair pattern-fomation. Finally, we explore the short-term response that the involved multi-stable core gene regulatory network gives to some chosen specific exogenous stimuli that code short-term environmental change. For our case the explored environmental signals quantify the concentration of the phosphate available in the soil material. Our formal systemic methodological approach successfully predicts the self-organized Arabidopsis thaliana root-hair spatial patterning formation, and provide some insights into the sufficient structural complex generic mechanisms that causally explain it.