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Rojas, ER, S Hotton, J Dumais. 2011. Chemically-mediated mechanical expansion of the pollen tube cell wall. Biophysical Journal 101: 1844-1853. [pdf] [supplementary information]
Forterre, Y and J Dumais. 2011. Perspective: Generating helices in nature. Science 333: 1715-1716. [pdf]
Zwieniecki, MA and J Dumais. 2011. Quantifying green life: Grand challenges in plant biophysics. Frontiers in Plant Science: Plant Biophysics and Modeling . doi: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00031: 1-4 [pdf]
Evangelista, D, S Hotton, and J Dumais. 2010. The mechanics of explosive dispersal and self-burial in the seeds of the filaree, Erodium cicutarium (Geraniaceae). Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 521-529. [pdf]
Besson, S and J Dumais. 2010. Universal rule for the symmetric division of plant cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108: 6294-6299. [pdf] [supplementary information]
Ambrosi, D, GA Ateshian, EM Arruda, M Ben Amar, SC Cowin, J Dumais, A Goriely, GA Holzapfel, JD Humphrey, R Kemkemer, E Kuhl, J Ma, JE Olberding, LA Taber, R Vandiver, K Garikipati. 2010. Perspectives on biological growth and remodeling. Journal for the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 59: 863-883. [pdf]
Martone, PT, M Boller, I Burgert, J Dumais, J Edwards, K Mach, N Rowe, M Rueggeberg, R Seidel, and T Speck. 2010. Mechanics without muscle: biomechanical inspiration from the plant world. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 888-907. [pdf]
Jordan BM, and J Dumais. 2010. Biomechanics of plant cell growth. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, John Wiley and Sons.
Katifori, I, S Alben, E Cerda, DR Nelson, and J Dumais. 2010. Foldable structures and the natural design of pollen grains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 7635-7639. [pdf] [supplementary information]
Noblin, X, S Yang, and J Dumais. 2009. Surface tension propulsion of fungal spores. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2835-2843. [pdf]
Isnard, S, AR Cobb, NM Holbrook, M Zwieniecki, and J Dumais. 2009. Tensioning the helix: A mechanism for force generation in twining plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 276: 2643-2650. [pdf]
Dumais, J. 2009. Plant morphogenesis: A role for mechanical signals. Current Biology 19: R207-R208. [pdf]
Geitmann, A and J Dumais. 2009. Not-so-tip-growth. Plant Signaling and Behavior 4: 136-138. [pdf]
Bernal R, ER Rojas, J Dumais (2007) The mechanics of tip growth morphogenesis: what we have learned from rubber balloons. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures 2: 1157-1168 [pdf]
Dumais J (2007) Can mechanics control pattern formation in plants? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 10: 58-62. [pdf]
Hotton S, V Johnson, J Wilbarger, K Zwieniecki, P Atela, C Gole, J Dumais (2006) The possible and the actual in phyllotaxis: Bridging the gap between empirical observations and iterative models. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 25: 313-323 [pdf]
Dumais J, SL Shaw, CR Steele, SR Long, and PM Ray (2006) An anisotropic-viscoplastic model of plant cell morphogenesis by tip growth. International Journal of Developmental Biology 50: 209-222 [pdf]
Forterre Y, JM Skotheim, J Dumais, and L Mahadevan (2005) How the Venus flytrap snaps. Nature 433: 421-425 [pdf]
Dumais J, SR Long, and SL Shaw (2004) The mechanics of surface expansion anisotropy in Medicago truncatula root hairs. Plant Physiology 136: 3266-3275 [pdf]
Kwiatkowska D. and J. Dumais (2003) Growth and morphogenesis at the vegetative shoot apex of Anagallis arvensis L. Journal of Experimental Botany 54: 1585-1595 [pdf]
Dumais J and D Kwiatkowska (2002) Analysis of surface growth in shoot apices.
The Plant Journal 31: 229-241 [pdf]
Dumais J and LG Harrison (2000) Whorl morphogenesis in the dasycladalean algae: the pattern formation viewpoint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 355: 281-305 [pdf] (erratum
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Dumais J and CR Steele (2000) New evidence for the role of mechanical forces
in the shoot apical meristem. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 19:
7-18 [pdf]
Dumais J, K Serikawa, and DF Mandoli (2000) Acetabularia: a unicellular model for understanding subcellular localization and morphogenesis during development. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 19: 253-264 [pdf]
Shaw SL, J Dumais, and S.L. Long (2000) Cell surface expansion in polarly growing root hairs of Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology 124: 959-969 [pdf]