Figure 4. Cell width is preserved across multiple cycles of growth and division.

(A) Model cells elongated using the uniform insertion model with L=20 and 10% stretching are divided in half after each doubling of cell-wall material. The cell wall networks for the first three generations are shown. (B) Average width for each of the cells in A, with each color representing a different cell. The cell-to-cell variability in width among the final eight cells is ~5%.