Before revision: The microtubule cortical array is a structure consisting of highly aligned microtubules , observed in all growing plant cells, which plays a crucial role in the characteristic plant cell growth by uniaxial expansion along the axis perpendicular to the microtubules. To investigate the orientational ordering of microtubulesin this system, we present both a coarse-grained theoretical model and stochastic particle-based simulations  , and compare the results from these complementary approaches.
After revision: The microtubule cortical array is a structure consisting of highly aligned microtubules , observed in all growing plant cells, which plays a crucial role in the characteristic uniaxial expansion of all growing plant cells. Recent experiments have shown polymerization-driven collisions between the membrane-bound cortical microtubules, suggesting a possible mechanism for their alignment. We present both a coarse-grained theoretical model and stochastic particle-based simulations , and compare the results from these complementary approaches.