Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes

Chapter 6

Intracellular Microfluid Transportation in Fast Growing Pollen Tubes

S. Liu^⁎,†; H. Liu^†,‡; M. Lin^†,‡,1; F. Xu^†,‡; T.J. Lu^{⁎,†    ⁎}State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China^†Bioinspired Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China^‡MOE Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China¹Chapter coordinator.

Abstract

Fast tip growth of pollen tubes is a process of fundamental importance in sexual plant reproduction. In this chapter, physical models were developed to analyze the hydrodynamics and the advection–diffusion ...