Author: Walter Shropshire
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780387121437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: H. F. Linskens
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 761
ISBN-13: 3642692990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →H. F. LINSKENS and J. HESLOP-HARRISON The chapters of this volume deal with intercellular interaction phenomena in plants. Collectively they provide a broad conspectus of a highly active, if greatly fragmented, research field. Certain limitations have been imposed on the subject matter, the most impor tant being the exclusion of long-range interactions within the plant body. It is true that pervasive hormonal control systems cannot readily be demarcated from controls mediated by pheromones or information-carrying molecules with more limited spheres of action, but consideration is given in this volume to the main classes of plant hormones and their functions only incidentally, since these are treated adequately in other volumes of this Encyclopedia series (V - ume 9-11) and in numerous other texts and reviews. Similarly, certain other effects, such as those associated with nutrients and ions, are not considered in any detail. Furthermore, we have excluded intracellular interactions, and also consideration of transport phenomena, which are treated in detail in Vol ume 3 of this Series. Other aspects of inter-cellular interaction, such as cell surface phenomena and implications of lectin-carbohydrate interactions, and plant-virus inter-relationships, are treated in other sections of this Encyclopedia (Volumes 13B and 14B, respectively). In the volume on physiological plant pathology (Volume 4 of this series) special attention has been given to host pathogen interaction. These aspects of our subject will therefore be excluded in the present treatise.
Author: Wolfgang Haupt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →General aspects of plant movement; Introduction; Stimulus perception; Reception and trasduction of electrical and mechanical stimuli; Endogenous rhythms in the movement of plants; Intracellular movements; Role of microtubules in intracellular movements; Actomyosin as a basic mechanism of movement in animals and plants; Cytoplasmic streaming in physarum; Cytoplasmic streaming and cyclosis of chloroplasts; Chloroplast and nuclear migration; Locomotion in microbial plants; Mechanisms of locomotion; Bacterial flagella; Plant cilia; Gliding movements; Control of locomoltion; Photomovement; Chemotaxis in bacteria; Chemotaxis in unicellular eukaryotes; Movement of slime molds; Movements using turgor mechanisms; Movements of stomata; Leaf movements and tendril curling; Growth movements; Growth movements directed by light; Induction of polarity; Phototropism; Growth movements directed by gravity; Gravitropism in single cells; Graviperception in multicellular organs; Growth-control mechanisms in gravitropism; Growth movements not directed primarily by external stimuli; Circumnutation; Epinasty; Author index; Subject index.
Author: Otto L. Lange
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 747
ISBN-13: 3642681506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →O. L. LANGE, P. S. NOBEL, C. B. OSMOND, and H. ZIEGLER In the original series of the Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, plant water relations and photosynthesis were treated separately, and the connection between phenomena was only considered in special chapters. O. STOCKER edited Vol ume III, Pjlanze und Wasser/Water Relations of Plants in 1956, and 4 years later, Volume V, Parts I and 2, Die COrAssimilation/The Assimilation of Carbon Dioxide appeared, edited by A. PIRSON. Until recently, there has also been a tendency to cover these aspects of plant physiology separately in most text books. Without doubt, this separation is justifiable. If one is specifically inter ested, for example in photosynthetic electron transport, in details of photophos phorylation, or in carbon metabolism in the Calvin cycle, it is not necessary to ask how these processes relate to the water relations of the plant. Accordingly, this separate coverage has been maintained in the New Series of the Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology. The two volumes devoted exclusively to photosynthesis are Volume 5, Photosynthesis I, edited by A. TREBST and M. AVRON, and Volume 6, Photosynthesis II, edited by M. GIBBS and E. LATZKO. When consider ing carbon assimilation and plant water relations from an ecological point of view, however, we have to recognize that this separation is arbitrary.