Beverley Glover

Understanding Flowers and Flowering

An Integrated Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition continues to provide the first truly integrated study of the topic - one that discusses both the how and why of flowering plant reproductive biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 193mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780199661596
• ISBN-10: 0199661596
• Artikelnr.: 40305798

Autorenporträt

Dr Beverley Glover is Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution at the University of Cambridge and Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. She studied Plant and Environmental Biology at the University of St. Andrews and then a PhD at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. After that she moved to Cambridge, where her research interests are focused on the development, function and evolution of floral features which enhance attraction of pollinators.

Inhaltsangabe

* Section I: Introduction
* 1: The Evolution of Flowers
* 2: Historical Interpretations of Flower Induction and Flower
Development
* Section II: The Molecular Mechanisms of Flowering: Induction and
Development
* Part A: Induction of Flowering
* 3: Flower Induction in Arabidopsis thaliana
* 4: The Autonomous Pathways for Floral Inhibition and Induction
* 5: The Photoperiodic Pathway of Floral Induction
* 6: The Vernalization Pathway of Floral Induction and the Role of
Gibberellin
* 7: Integrating the Arabidopsis thaliana Flower Induction Pathways
* 8: Flower Induction Beyond Arabidopsis thaliana
* Part B: Development of Flowers
* 9: Changes at the Shoot Apical Meristem in Response to Floral
Induction
* 10: Development of the Floral Organs
* 11: The ABC Model and the Diversity of Plant Reproductive Structures
* 12: Function and Development of Gametophytes
* 13: Outcrossing and Self-fertilization
* Section III: Pollination Success: Molecular and Ecological
Interactions
* Part A: How and Why Does Floral Form Vary?
* 14: Why Are Flowers Different? Pollination Syndromes-The Theory
* 15: Diverse Floral Shape and Structure
* 16: Colouring the Flower
* 17: Enhancing Flower Colour
* 18: Lability of Floral Form
* Part B: The Influence of Pollinators on Floral Form
* 19: Are Flowers under Selective Pressure to Increase Pollinator
Attention?
* 20: Do Pollinators Discriminate between Different Floral Forms?
* 21: Pollination Syndromes - The Evidence