Plant Tropisms: And Other Growth Movements - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0044453701 ISBN 13: 9780044453703

Publisher: Unwin Hyman

Synopsis

This text explores the means, processes and mechanisms by which plants change the orientation and juxtapositions of various organs in order to optimize their harvest of energy, and examines the major stumuli which provokes such responses. These interactions are re-described for higher plants through to ferns, fungi and algae, and the text constantly emphasizes the functional significance of particular growth movements to plants in their natural surroundings. This book should be of interest to research students and lecturers in plant physiology; research workers in agriculture and plant biochemistry.

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Review:

...I commend you to read this book. The book is well written and illustrated, the author using topic boxes to present information which he finds particularly intriguing...the readership of the book will range from undergraduates and postgraduates studying plant science to conscientious naturalists wishing to find out more about how plants grow. - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Synopsis:

Tropisms are a form of plant movement and represent a major means by which a plant senses, responds and adjusts to its surrounding. This book attempts to give an account of this area, and to demonstrate that the beauty and sensitivity of plants extends beyond any static "still-life" picture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Unwin Hyman
• ISBN 10: 0044453701
• ISBN 13: 9780044453703
• Binding: Hardcover