Phyllotaxis
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lulubelle
What is the adaptive significance of phyllotaxy in the plants?
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animartco
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The reason for phyllotaxy is to get the maximum of sunlight to each leaf, so the length of the internodes depends on the size of the leaves, but it is not clear why some plants have opposite nodes and some alternate.
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