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The study of plant development in recent years has often been concerned with the effects of the environment and the possible involvement of growth substances. The prevalent belief that plant growth substances are crucial to plant development has tended to obscure rather than to clarify the underlying cellular mechanisms of development. The aim in this book is to try to focus on what is currently known, and what needs to be known, in order to explain plant development in terms that allow further experimentation at the cellular and molecular levels. We need to know where and at what level in the cell or organ the critical processes controlling development occur. Then, we will be better able to under­ stand how development is controlled by the genes, whether directly by the continual production of new gene transcripts or more indirectly by the genes merely defining self-regulating systems that then function autonomously. This book is not a survey of the whole of plant development but is meant to concentrate on the possible component cellular and molecular processes involved. Consequently, a basic knowledge of plant structure is assumed. The facts of plant morphogenesis can be obtained from the books listed in the General Reading section at the end of Chapter 1. Although references are not cited specifically in the text, the key references for each section are denoted by superscript numbers and listed in the Notes section at the end of each chapter.

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Author:   R.F. Lyndon
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9789401168465

ISBN 10:   9401168466
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I Development of the Basic Structures.- 1 The problems of development: embryogenesis.- II Iterative Growth: Meristem Structure and Functioning.- 2 Root and shoot meristems: structure and growth.- 3 Meristem functioning: formation of branches, leaves, and floral organs.- III Control of Shape and Directions of Growth: The Cellular Basis of Form.- 4 Shape, growth directions, and surface structure.- 5 Control of the plane of cell division.- 6 The cellular basis of polarity.- IV Cell Differentiation.- 7 Control of the differentiation of vascular tissues.- 8 Cell enlargement, maturation, and differentiation.- 9 Genes and development.- V Competence and Determination.- 10 Competence and determination in differentiation.- 11 Competence and determination in flowering.- VI Coordination of Development.- 12 Pattern formation, positional information, and integration of growth.- References.

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