Fig. 1

Distribution of number of phytomers from a mixed development of Bernouilli process and death process: a Example of realization of this pattern in the internode distribution of bamboo (from Dabadie et al. 1991). b Monte Carlo simulation (dots) and theoretical computation (line), with b = 0.8 and c = 0.97. c Five simulated axes with continuous development, where each symbol represents a type of meristem activity at a given computing unit: idle (plus), creation of a phytomer (square), and dead meristem (asterisk)