GROWTH PATTERNS IN VASCULAR PLANTS

ISBN 10: 0931146267 / ISBN 13: 9780931146268

Published by Dioscorides Pr, 1994

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Synopsis:

Growth Patterns in Vascular Plants organizes the processes of plant growth into four fundamental categories: primary growth, secondary growth, reproductive growth, and phylogenetic development. In sections devoted to each of these processes, a multidisciplinary panel of experts assembled by editor Muhammad Iqbal surveys the advances made in understanding plant growth in recent decades. Contributors include biochemists, ecophysiologists, molecular biologists, and other specialists, in addition to anatomists and morphologists. Some of the topics covered are root growth and gravitropism, leaf development and the influence of light, growth of laticifers, tracheary elements in parasitic plants, thickening in pteridophytes and monocotyledons, adaptive anatomy of lianas, factors controlling flower, gametophyte, and embryo development, and plant growth and the evolution of seed plants.
The chapters, generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, have been carefully organized to reveal the investigative trends in the various disciplines. The book provides a starting point for further advances in our understanding of plant growth.

About the Author: Editor Muhammad Iqbal is professor and head of the Department of Botany of Hamdard University, New Delhi, India, where he teaches and conducts research in plant growth and development. His own research focuses on radial growth and development of conductive tissues in tropical trees, the effect of environmental factors on plant anatomy, and ethnobotanical studies. He has published numerous papers in plant anatomy and related topics as well as having edited several books.

Bibliographic Details

Title: GROWTH PATTERNS IN VASCULAR PLANTS
Publisher: Dioscorides Pr
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New