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Noise and Robustness in Phyllotaxis 1,2 2 2 1,2 Vincent Mirabet , Fabrice Besnard , Teva Vernoux *, Arezki Boudaoud * ´ ´ ´ 1 Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, CNRS, ENS, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2 Laboratoire Reproduction et Developpement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France Abstract A striking feature of vascular plants is the regular arrangement of lateral organs on the stem, known as phyllotaxis. The most common phyllotactic patterns can be described using spirals, numbers from the Fibonacci sequence and the golden angle. This rich mathematical structure, along with the experimental reproduction of phyllotactic spirals in physical systems, has led to a view of phyllotaxis focusing on regularity. However all organisms are affected by natural stochastic variability, raising questions about the effect of this variability on phyllotaxis and the achievement of such regular patterns. Here we address these questions theoretically using a dynamical system of interacting sources of inhibitory field. Previous work has shown that phyllotaxis can emerge deterministically from the self-organization of such sources and that inhibition is primarily mediated by the depletion of the plant hormone auxin through polarized transport. We incorporated stochasticity in the model and found three main classes of defects in spiral phyllotaxis – the reversal of the handedness of spirals, the concomitant initiation of organs and the occurrence of distichous angles – and we investigated whether a secondary inhibitory fiel