Yukitaka Ishimoto

The paper shows that temporal changes in surface tension at the growing tip of Arabidopsis zygotes maintain cortical microtubule bands, which guide the formation of the preprophase band and ensure asymmetric cell division.

The paper develops a viscoelastic-plastic model to simulate tip growth in Arabidopsis zygotes and identifies non-dimensional parameters that maintain a hemisphere-like shape.

The paper investigates how 3D tissue architecture influences BMP signaling during Drosophila wing development, showing that morphogenesis shapes signaling distribution.