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Bernal R., E.R. 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

Dumais J. (2007) Can mechanics control pattern formation in plants? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 10: 58-62

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

Dumais J., S.L. Shaw, C.R. Steele, S.R. Long, and P.M. Ray (2006) An anisotropic-viscoplastic model of plant cell morphogenesis by tip growth. International Journal of Developmental Biology 50: 209-222

Forterre Y., J.M. Skotheim, J. Dumais, and L. Mahadevan ( 2005) How the Venus flytrap snaps. Nature 433: 421-425

Dumais J., S.R. Long, and S.L. Shaw (2004) The mechanics of surface expansion anisotropy in Medicago truncatula root hairs. Plant Physiology 136: 3266-3275

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

Dumais J. and D. Kwiatkowska (2002) Analysis of surface growth in shoot apices. The Plant Journal 31: 229-241

Dumais J. and L.G. Harrison (2000) Whorl morphogenesis in the dasycladalean algae: the pattern formation viewpoint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 355: 281-305 (erratum)

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

Dumais J., K. Serikawa, and D.F. Mandoli (2000) Acetabularia: a unicellular model for understanding subcellular localization and morphogenesis during development. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 19: 253-264

Shaw S.L., J. Dumais, and S.L. Long (2000) Cell surface expansion in polarly growing root hairs of Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology 124: 959-969