James D. Mauseth, Amanda Snook

Botany, Sixth Edition and Botany: A Lab Manual: A Lab Manual

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Produktbeschreibung

This money-saving bundle includes Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Sixth Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage access AND the unique Botany: A Lab Manual, Sixth Edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 2608g
• ISBN-13: 9781284118193
• ISBN-10: 1284118193
• Artikelnr.: 54804078

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.