Keywords:
Plant physiology.
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Symmetry (Biology).
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry including the direction of tendril growth or stem coiling found in many climbing plants, spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy, and contorted petal arrangement.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (409 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780429960710
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5741570
DDC:
571.2
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Concepts of Handedness, Asymmetry, Chirality, Spirality, and Helicity -- Chapter 2: Left-Right Symmetry in Animals and Plants: A Comparison -- Chapter 3: Asymmetry at the Cell Level -- Chapter 4: Handedness Events in Vascular Cambium and Their Relation to the So-Called Spiral Grains in Wood -- Chapter 5: Broken Symmetry and Handedness in Cryptogams -- Chapter 6: Biology of Handedness in Fungi -- Chapter 7: The Nature of Right-Left Asymmetries in Plants -- Chapter 8: Molecular Bases and Genetic Aspects of Handedness in Plants -- Chapter 9: Embryo Handedness Caused by Embryo Rotations in Angiosperms -- Chapter 10: Circumnutation -- Chapter 11: Seedling Handedness in Some Angiosperms -- Chapter 12: A Comparison of Chirality Patterns in Climbing Plants (Lianas) of Moist Tropical Forest in Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 13: Handedness in Plant Tendrils -- Chapter 14: Fibonacci Sequence: A General Account -- Chapter 15: Sunflower Spirals -- Chapter 16: Determination of Parastichy Numbers and Its Applications -- Chapter 17: Floral Symmetry -- Chapter 18: Transference of Positional Information from Bracteoles and Sepals to Petals in Species with Labile Handedness of Contort Corolla: Mechanical Forces or Prepatterning? -- Chapter 19: Stylar Polymorphisms in Flowering Plants: An Overview -- Chapter 20: Enantiostyly in Angiosperms -- Chapter 21: Inversostyly: A Still Less Known Reproductive Mechanism -- Chapter 22: More on Buzz Pollination-Pollen Rebounds in Asymmetric Flowers -- Chapter 23: Handedness in Plants in Relation to Yield: A Review -- Chapter 24: Concluding Remarks -- Index.
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