James D. Mauseth

Botany: An Introduction To Plant Biology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of plant science. No botany text better connects structure to function and does so with higher quality art and imagery. Combining strong scientific grounding with an approachable writing style, Botany teaches and engages. The essentials to a

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• 7 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 844
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 222mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 2018g
• ISBN-13: 9781284157352
• ISBN-10: 1284157350
• Artikelnr.: 56714375

Autorenporträt

James Mauseth The University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology Education: B.S., University of Washington at Seattle, 1970 Ph.D., University of Washington at Seattle, 1975 Research: Research in his lab centers on evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure. They use cacti as model organisms because the family contains a great amount of structural/developmental diversity and because the cactus genus Pekeskia retains numerous relictual characters. Plants of Pereskia have hard woody stems and ordinary large leaves. From ancestors like this, morphogenic mechanisms have evolved into ones capable of controlling the differentiation of various types of highly modified wood, unusual types of cortex that have leaf-like features, and apical meristems that minimize the number of mitoses necessary to produce large plants. Because each evolutionary line in the family has undergone particular types of modification of the morphogenic mechanism, they can compare different types of differentiation of a particular tissue, each type controlled by homologous morphogenic mechanisms.