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I. Adler, D. Barabé, and R. V. Jean (1997). A History of the Study of
Phyllotaxis, Annals of Botany, 80, 231-244.

P. Atela, C. Golé, and S. Hotton (2002). A Dynamical System for Plant Pattern
Formation: Rigorous Analysis (P. Atela, C. Golé, S. Hotton, J. Nonlinear Sci.
Vol. 12, Number 6 See the description in the research page.  

Barabé and Jean (Eds.) (1998). Symmetry in Plants, World Scientific Publishing.
A compilation of surveys of the most recent research by dozens of scientists,
in all the fields pertaining to phyllotaxis, written by the scientists
themselves.

S. Douady and Y. Couder (1996). Phyllotaxis as a Dynamical Self Organizing
Process (Part I, II, III), J. theor. Biol. 139, 178-312.  Groundbreaking
articles introducing the models that are at the center of our research.

Dumais, J. and Kwiatkowska, D. (2002). Analysis of surface growth in shoot
apices. The Plant Journal 31, 229-241.  Develops a promising technique of 3-D
analysis of growing plant meristems, using a non destructive microscopy method
as well as curvature analysis at the cellular level.

Dumais, J. and C.R. Steele (2000). New evidence for the role of mechanical
forces in the shoot apical meristem, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 19,
7-18.  Uses stress analysis of incisions of the growing head of sunflower as
supporting evidence for buckling.

L.H. Hernandez and Paul B. Green (1993). Transduction for the expression of
structural patterns: analysis in sunflower, The Plant Cell, Vol 5, 1725-1738.
A comparative analysis of various proposed physiological mechanisms for
phyllotaxis, favouring the "buckling" hypothesis.

S. Hotton (1999). Symmetry of Plants, Ph.D. Thesis, UC Santa Cruz.  See the
description in the research page.

Jean, Roger V. (1994). Phyllotaxis: A systemic study in plant morphogenesis.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  A comprehensive look at many
mathematical models of phyllotaxis.

L.S. Levitov (1991): Energetic Approach to Phyllotaxis, Europhys. Lett., 14
(6), 533-539.  An inspiring article on the use of (hyperbolic) symmetry in
phyllotaxis. See also the related article in "Symmetry in Plants" by Levitov
and Lee.

R.D. Meicenheimer (1998). Decussate to spiral transitions in phyllotaxis, in
Symmetry in Plants, World Scientific Publishing.  Correlates changes of the
eccentricity of the meristem to decussate to spiral transitions. Gives relative
frequencies of different phyllotactic patterns.

D. Reinhardt, T. Mandel, and C. Kuhlemeier (2000). Auxin Regulates the
Initiation and Radial Position of Plant Lateral Organs, The Plant Cell, Vol.
12, 507\u2013518 .  The title says it. This gives credence to a
reaction-diffusion type of model for the inception of primordia.

R. Rutishauser (1998). Parameters of a quantitative Phyllotaxis Analysis, in
Symmetry in Plants, World Scientific Publishers, 171-212.  Gives a table of
measurements of many plants samples ( plastochrone ratios, divergence angles,
leaf arc, phyllotactic type and others).

M. Snow and R. Snow (1951). On the question of tissue tensions in stem apices.
New Phytologist 50, 184-185.

Turing, A.M.(1952): The chemical basis of morphogenesis. Phil. Trans. R.Soc.
London B139, 545-566 Seminal paper showing mathematically that certain chemical
reactions can lead to non-homogeneous concentrations of chemicals - hence
patterning. [Turing was a father figure in the birth of computers].