Taylor A. Steeves, Ian M. Sussex

Patterns in Plant Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is written so that anyone who has completed a basic first-year university course in biology or botany will be able to use it without difficulty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780521288958
• ISBN-10: 0521288959
• Artikelnr.: 22443898

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Development in the vascular plants
2. Embryogenesis: beginnings of development
3. Analytical and experimental studies of embryo development
4. The structure of the shoot apex
5. Analytical studies of the shoot apex
6. Experimental investigations on the shoot apex
7. Organogenesis in the shoot: leaf origin and position
8. Organogenesis in the shoot: determination of leaves and branches
9. Organogenesis in the shoot: later stages of leaf development
10. Determinate shoots: thorns and flowers
11. The development of the shoot system
12. The root
13. Differentiation of the plant body: the origin of pattern
14. Differentiation of the plant body: the elaboration of pattern
15. Secondary growth: the vascular cambium
16. Secondary growth: experimental studies on the cambium
17. Alternative patterns of development
Credits
Author index
Subject index.