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A model of plant growing based on some variants of P systems is considered. The model (very close to L systems-based approaches) represents a further step toward a more modular way to specify biological systems. A specification language and a tool supporting the model are also presented together with some simple examples. A key operation introduced in this context is rule rewriting — there are rules which rewrite the right hand sides of other rules. Because of the importance of this operation for our approach, we also briefly investigate it from a theoretical point of view in the Annex.
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Georgiou, A., Gheorghe, M., Bernardini, F. (2006). Membrane-Based Devices Used in Computer Graphics. In: Ciobanu, G., Păun, G., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J. (eds) Applications of Membrane Computing. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29937-8_9
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