The following assertions tell a new story about plant growth:
1. Science expects at least until 1990 plants to grow exponentially in the beginning
2. Experiments with oil palm, soybean and sunflower did not show the expected exponential but second order polynomial growth.
3. More statistical evidence shows polynomials of the second order to describe better plant growth than exponential functions.
4. A simple model, using commonly accepted growth equations, but leaving the idea of a constant ratio of the growth machinery in plant mass, supports the possibility of growth according a polynomial of the second order.
5. An explanation for the experimental determined second order polynomial plant growth is that simulated, 2 dimensional plants
win, first, when growing according this pattern from those growing slower, provided that they concentrate their offspring in time and space.
win, secondly, when growing according this pattern from those growing faster, provided that they concentrate their offspring in time and space
will, thirdly, concentrate offspring in time and space, as it is the winning strategy.
6. Competing, simulated 2 dimensional plants showed an extra discovery, i.e. an optimal maximum age (death)