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ISBN: 0511693672 1108003605 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Written in collaboration with his son Francis, Darwin builds on earlier investigations into climbing plants, orchids, insectivorous plants, flower variety, and the processes of fertilisation. This detailed study of many species from seed to mature plant further develops Darwin's work on adaptation and evolution, with the aim of collating the results of individual studies into common factors applicable to plants in general. Particular emphasis is given to analysis and investigation of the process here termed circumnutation, the movement of the stem of the plant in order to direct the head in certain directions. This is seen as very importance, with the conclusion that it is modification of this feature that has enabled plants to adapt and evolve so diversely. The authors also note similarities between plants and animals, such as sensitivity to touch and habit of action at certain times.
Plants --- Irritability and movements. --- Movements of plants --- Irritability --- Plant mechanics --- Pulvinus --- Movements
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ISBN: 0674059433 9780674059436 9780674048638 0674048636 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, MA
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Dov Koller (1925-2007) was working on this book when he passed away, and his daughter Daphne (a MacArthur fellow, mathematician and computer scientist at Stanford with her own book published in 2009 by MIT Press) sent the manuscript to MGF. This is the summary of a career and a field (plant biology), written in accessible language so that it can extend its reach beyond a small circle of specialists. The book is probably the most up-to-date account of movement in plants. It draws on examples across the spectrum of plant families, including mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. The book begins with an explanation of how cellular motors work and then describes how cells manage to move organs. The bulk of the book explains how plants and plant organs (roots, stems, leaves, flowers) move in different environments and situations. Movement of roots, tubers, rhizomes and other plant parts underground is described in detail and much of this information is suprising because we normally don’t see it happening. Movement of stems and leaves toward the light is the research specialty of the author, and is explained in detail in two chapters. Effort is made to present information at the subcellular and cellular levels, including the roles of receptors, signaling pathways, hormones, and physiological responses leading to motor function. The adaptive significance of movements is discussed in each case.
Plants --- Tropisms. --- Tropic responses --- Growth (Plants) --- Movements of plants --- Irritability --- Plant mechanics --- Pulvinus --- Irritability and movements. --- Irritability and movements --- Movements
ISBN: 3540087761 9783540087762 Year: 1979 Volume: 7 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,
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Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Plants --- Irritability and movements --- 581.1 --- 581.18 --- Movements of plants --- Irritability --- Plant mechanics --- Pulvinus --- Irritability and movements. --- Plant physiology --- Movements. Sensibility --- Movements --- 581.18 Movements. Sensibility --- 581.1 Plant physiology --- Plants - Irritability and movements
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ISBN: 2225469040 9782225469046 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris: Masson,
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Plants --- Plantes --- Irritability and movements --- Irritabilité et mouvements --- 581.18 --- Movements. Sensibility --- 581.18 Movements. Sensibility --- Irritabilité et mouvements --- Movements of plants --- Irritability --- Plant mechanics --- Pulvinus --- Movements --- Plants - Irritability and movements
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ISBN: 0044453701 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Boston Wellington Unwin Hyman
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581.184 --- Plants --- #WPLT:dd.prof.J.Vendrig --- Movements of plants --- Irritability --- Plant mechanics --- Pulvinus --- Tropisms. Directional responses. Geotropism. Phototropism. Thermotropism etc. --- Irritability and movements. --- Movements --- 581.184 Tropisms. Directional responses. Geotropism. Phototropism. Thermotropism etc. --- Irritability and movements --- Tropisms. Directional responses. Geotropism. Phototropism. Thermotropism etc
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