A. Asnacios and O. Hamant, The mechanics behind cell polarity, Trends in Cell Biology, vol.22, pp.584-591, 2012.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02652536

F. Baluska, D. Volkmann, and P. W. Barlow, Eukaryotic cells and their cell bodies: cell theory revised, Annals of Botany, vol.94, pp.9-32, 2004.

T. I. Baskin, H. Meekes, B. M. Liang, and R. E. Sharp, Regulation of growth anisotropy in well-watered and water-stressed maize roots. II. Role of cortical microtubules and cellulose microfibrils, Plant Physiology, vol.119, pp.681-692, 1999.

A. Bichet, T. Desnos, S. Turner, O. Grandjean, and H. Hofte, BOTERO1 is required for normal orientation of cortical microtubules and anisotropic cell expansion in Arabidopsis, The Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology, vol.25, pp.137-148, 2001.

J. Bonet and R. D. Wood, Nonlinear continuum mechanics for finite element analysis, 1997.

A. Boudaoud, A. Burian, D. Borowska-wykret, M. Uyttewaal, R. Wrzalik et al., FibrilTool, an ImageJ plug-in to quantify fibrillar structures in raw microscopy images, Nature Protocols, vol.9, pp.457-463, 2014.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01204146

M. Bringmann, E. Li, A. Sampathkumar, T. Kocabek, M. Hauser et al., POM-POM2/cellulose synthase interacting1 is essential for the functional association of cellulose synthase and microtubules in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, vol.24, pp.163-177, 2012.

, Computational geometry algorithms library, 2014.

J. Chan, E. Crowell, M. Eder, G. Calder, S. Bunnewell et al., The rotation of cellulose synthase trajectories is microtubule dependent and influences the texture of epidermal cell walls in Arabidopsis hypocotyls, Journal of Cell Science, vol.123, pp.3490-3495, 2010.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01203943

E. Chanliaud, K. M. Burrows, G. Jeronimidis, and M. J. Gidley, Mechanical properties of primary plant cell wall analogues, Planta, vol.215, pp.989-996, 2002.

E. F. Crowell, H. Timpano, T. Desprez, T. Franssen-verheijen, A. M. Emons et al., Differential regulation of cellulose orientation at the inner and outer face of epidermal cells in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl, The Plant Cell, vol.23, pp.2592-2605, 2011.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01004333

L. J. Davis, D. J. Odde, S. M. Block, and S. P. Gross, The importance of lattice defects in katanin-mediated microtubule severing in vitro, Biophysical Journal, vol.82, pp.2916-2927, 2002.

B. V. Derjaguin, V. M. Muller, and Y. P. Toporov, Effect of contact deformations on the adhesion of particles, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol.53, pp.314-326, 1975.

J. D. Díaz-valencia, M. M. Morelli, M. Bailey, D. Zhang, D. J. Sharp et al., Drosophila Katanin-60 Depolymerizes and Severs at microtubule defects, Biophysical Journal, vol.100, pp.2440-2449, 2011.

J. Dumais and C. R. Steele, New evidence for the role of mechanical forces in the shoot apical meristem, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, vol.19, pp.7-18, 2000.

A. J. Engler, S. Sen, H. L. Sweeney, and D. E. Discher, Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage specification, Cell, vol.126, pp.677-689, 2006.

A. D. Franck, A. F. Powers, D. R. Gestaut, T. Gonen, T. N. Davis et al., Tension applied through the Dam1 complex promotes microtubule elongation providing a direct mechanism for length control in mitosis, Nature Cell Biology, vol.9, pp.832-837, 2007.

Y. Fu, Y. Gu, Z. Zheng, G. Wasteneys, and Z. Yang, Arabidopsis interdigitating cell growth requires two antagonistic pathways with opposing action on cell morphogenesis, Cell, vol.120, pp.687-700, 2005.

M. Fujita, R. Himmelspach, C. H. Hocart, R. E. Williamson, S. D. Mansfield et al., Cortical microtubules optimize cell-wall crystallinity to drive unidirectional growth in Arabidopsis, The Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology, vol.66, pp.915-928, 2011.

M. K. Gardner, C. G. Pearson, B. L. Sprague, T. R. Zarzar, K. Bloom et al., Tension-dependent regulation of microtubule dynamics at kinetochores can explain metaphase congression in yeast, Molecular Biology of the Cell, vol.16, pp.3764-3775, 2005.

P. B. Green, Organogenesis-a biophysical view, Annual Review of Plant Physiology, vol.31, pp.51-82, 1980.

O. Hamant, M. G. Heisler, H. Jonsson, P. Krupinski, M. Uyttewaal et al., Developmental patterning by mechanical signals in Arabidopsis, Science, vol.322, pp.1650-1655, 2008.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412612

C. M. Hayot, E. Forouzesh, A. Goel, Z. Avramova, and J. A. Turner, Viscoelastic properties of cell walls of single living plant cells determined by dynamic nanoindentation, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol.63, pp.2525-2540, 2012.

M. G. Heisler, O. Hamant, P. Krupinski, M. Uyttewaal, C. Ohno et al., Alignment between PIN1 polarity and microtubule orientation in the shoot apical meristem reveals a tight coupling between morphogenesis and auxin transport, PLOS Biology, vol.8, p.1000516, 2010.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02662262

J. L. Hutter and J. Bechhoefer, Calibration of atomic-force microscope tips, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol.64, pp.1868-1873, 1993.

E. Jacques, J. P. Verbelen, and K. Vissenberg, Mechanical stress in Arabidopsis leaves orients microtubules in a 'continuous' supracellular pattern, BMC Plant Biology, vol.13, p.163, 2013.

J. Jaeger, D. Irons, and N. Monk, Regulative feedback in pattern formation: towards a general relativistic theory of positional information, Development, vol.135, pp.3175-3183, 2008.

H. Jonsson, M. G. Heisler, B. E. Shapiro, E. M. Meyerowitz, and E. Mjolsness, An auxin-driven polarized transport model for phyllotaxis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.103, pp.1633-1638, 2006.

G. Jung and W. Wernicke, Cell shaping and microtubules in developing mesophyll of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), Protoplasma, vol.153, pp.141-148, 1990.

D. R. Kaplan, The relationship of cells to organisms in plants: problem and Implications of an organismal perspective, International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol.153, pp.28-37, 1992.

D. Kierzkowski, N. Nakayama, A. L. Routier-kierzkowska, A. Weber, E. Bayer et al., Elastic domains regulate growth and organogenesis in the plant shoot apical meristem, Science, vol.335, pp.1096-1099, 2012.

U. Kutschera and K. J. Niklas, The epidermal-growth-control theory of stem elongation: an old and a new perspective, Journal of Plant Physiology, vol.164, pp.1395-1409, 2007.

T. Lecuit and P. F. Lenne, Cell surface mechanics and the control of cell shape, tissue patterns and morphogenesis, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, vol.8, pp.633-644, 2007.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00165487

R. Levy and M. Maaloum, Measuring the spring constant of atomic force microscope cantilevers: thermal fluctuations and other methods, Nanotechnology, vol.13, pp.33-37, 2002.

D. Lin, L. Cao, Z. Zhou, L. Zhu, D. Ehrhardt et al., Rho GTPase signaling activates microtubule severing to promote microtubule ordering in arabidopsis, Current Biology: CB, vol.23, pp.290-297, 2013.

J. J. Lindeboom, M. Nakamura, A. Hibbel, K. Shundyak, R. Gutierrez et al., A mechanism for reorientation of cortical microtubule arrays driven by microtubule severing, Science, vol.342, p.1245533, 2013.

A. I. Marcus, R. C. Moore, and R. J. Cyr, The role of microtubules in guard cell function, Plant Physiology, vol.125, pp.387-395, 2001.

A. C. Martin, M. Kaschube, and E. F. Wieschaus, Pulsed contractions of an actin-myosin network drive apical constriction, Nature, vol.457, pp.495-499, 2009.

P. Milani, M. Gholamirad, J. Traas, A. Arneodo, A. Boudaoud et al., In vivo analysis of local wall stiffness at the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis using atomic force microscopy, The Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology, vol.67, pp.1116-1123, 2011.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01556937

A. S. Nezhad, M. Naghavi, M. Packirisamy, R. Bhat, and A. Geitmann, Quantification of the Young's modulus of the primary plant cell wall using Bending-Lab-On-Chip (BLOC), Annual Review of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, vol.13, pp.431-449, 2013.

A. R. Paredez, C. R. Somerville, and D. W. Ehrhardt, Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules, Science, vol.312, pp.1491-1495, 2006.

P. A. Pouille, P. Ahmadi, A. C. Brunet, and E. Farge, Mechanical signals trigger Myosin II redistribution and mesoderm invagination in Drosophila embryos, Science Signaling, vol.2, p.16, 2009.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inserm-02440926

A. H. Roeder, V. Chickarmane, A. Cunha, B. Obara, B. S. Manjunath et al., Variability in the control of cell division underlies sepal epidermal patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana, PLOS Biology, vol.8, p.1000367, 2010.

A. H. Roeder, A. Cunha, C. K. Ohno, and E. M. Meyerowitz, Cell cycle regulates cell type in the Arabidopsis sepal, Development, vol.139, pp.4416-4427, 2012.

P. Schopfer, Biomechanics of plant growth, American Journal of Botany, vol.93, pp.1415-1425, 2006.

K. Sherrard, F. Robin, P. Lemaire, and E. Munro, Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination, Current Biology: CB, vol.20, pp.1499-1510, 2010.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00566790

B. I. Shraiman, Mechanical feedback as a possible regulator of tissue growth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.102, pp.3318-3323, 2005.

R. Skibbens, V. Skeen, and E. Salmon, Directional instability of kinetochore motility during chromosome congression and segregation in mitotic newt lung cells: a push-pull mechanism, The Journal of Cell Biology, vol.122, pp.859-875, 1993.

I. N. Sneddon, The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile, International Journal of Engineering Science, vol.3, pp.47-57, 1965.

J. Solon, A. Kaya-copur, J. Colombelli, and D. Brunner, Pulsed forces timed by a ratchet-like mechanism drive directed tissue movement during dorsal closure, Cell, vol.137, pp.1331-1342, 2009.

T. Stylianopoulos, J. D. Martin, V. P. Chauhan, S. R. Jain, B. Diop-frimpong et al., Causes, consequences, and remedies for growth-induced solid stress in murine and human tumors, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.109, pp.15101-15108, 2012.

D. Suslov, J. P. Verbelen, and K. Vissenberg, Onion epidermis as a new model to study the control of growth anisotropy in higher plants, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol.60, pp.4175-4187, 2009.

M. Thery, A. Jimenez-dalmaroni, V. Racine, M. Bornens, and F. Julicher, Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation, Nature, vol.447, pp.493-496, 2007.

A. Trushko, E. Schaffer, and J. Howard, The growth speed of microtubules with XMAP215-coated beads coupled to their ends is increased by tensile force, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.110, pp.14670-14675, 2013.

M. Uyttewaal, A. Burian, K. Alim, B. Landrein, D. Borowska-wykret et al., Mechanical stress acts via katanin to amplify differences in growth rate between adjacent cells in Arabidopsis, Cell, vol.149, pp.439-451, 2012.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01004210

O. Wartlick, A. Kicheva, and M. Gonzalez-gaitan, Morphogen gradient formation, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, vol.1, p.1255, 2009.

J. A. Weiss, B. N. Maker, and S. Govindjee, Finite element implementation of incompressible, transversely isotropic hyperelasticity, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol.135, pp.107-128, 1996.

R. Wightman, G. Chomicki, M. Kumar, P. Carr, and S. R. Turner, SPIRAL2 determines plant microtubule organization by modulating microtubule severing, Current Biology: CB, vol.23, pp.1902-1907, 2013.

R. Wightman and S. R. Turner, Severing at sites of microtubule crossover contributes to microtubule alignment in cortical arrays, The Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology, vol.52, pp.742-751, 2007.

R. E. Williamson, Alignment of cortical microtubules by anisotropic wall stresses, Functional Plant Biology, vol.17, pp.601-613, 1990.

L. Wolpert, Positional information and the spatial pattern of cellular differentiation, Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol.25, pp.1-47, 1969.

T. Xu, M. Wen, S. Nagawa, Y. Fu, J. G. Chen et al., Cell surface-and rho GTPase-based auxin signaling controls cellular interdigitation in Arabidopsis, Cell, vol.143, pp.99-110, 2010.

Z. Yang, Cell polarity signaling in Arabidopsis, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, vol.24, pp.551-575, 2008.

C. Zhang, L. E. Halsey, and D. B. Szymanski, The development and geometry of shape change in Arabidopsis thaliana cotyledon pavement cells, BMC Plant Biology, vol.11, p.27, 2011.

Q. Zhang, E. Fishel, T. Bertroche, and R. Dixit, Microtubule severing at crossover sites by katanin generates ordered cortical microtubule arrays in arabidopsis, Current Biology, vol.23, pp.2191-2195, 2013.

O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor, and J. Z. Zhu, The finite element method: its basis and fundamentals, 2005.