BAn international research team discovered the secret of the amazing growth of Roman cauliflower. Plants are formed because buds cannot become flowers. Instead, they developed into stems, and the stems tried to form flowers, but failed, as the team wrote in the journal Science.
The fascinating repeating shapes in Roman cauliflower are also called fractals. Fractal is a structure in which each part is similar to the whole. In Roman cauliflower, the shape of the rose and its fragments is similar to that of all vegetables.
Flower buds were designed to produce flowers, but they never achieved this goal. The stems formed are plants with flowers instead, but the same sequence starts from the beginning. The Christophe Godin team of the French National Institute of Computer Science and Automation (Inria) wrote that, overall, this is a disruption to the gene network of flower formation. Although the stems of cauliflower produce new shoots at roughly the same rate, the process of Roman broccoli is getting faster and faster. Pyramid-shaped flowers will accelerate from this.
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