Plant Tropisms: And other Growth MovementsThis 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. |
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Contents
Tropisms and other forms of plant movement | 1 |
12 Plant turgor movements | 5 |
13 Plant growth movements | 13 |
Introduction to tropisms | 23 |
22 Historical overview | 35 |
Gravitropism | 44 |
32 Stimulus reception and transformation | 60 |
33 Regulation of the growth responses | 74 |
44 Phototropism and gravitropism | 134 |
Thigmotropism | 139 |
52 Thigmotropic responses | 144 |
53 Stimulus reception and transformation | 150 |
Other tropisms | 161 |
61 Chemotropism | 162 |
62 Hydrotropism | 176 |
63 Traumatropism | 180 |
Common terms and phrases
action potentials apical asymmetry autotropism auxin auxin gradient behaviour blue light calcium cell membrane changes in growth chemical chemotropic circumnutation coiling coleoptile concentration curvature curve Darwin dicot differential growth Edwards & Pickard effects electrical epidermis ethylene example factors filaments Firn fungi gravitropic curvature gravitropic response growing growth rate growth regulator growth stimulation heliotropism higher plants horizontal hormones hyphae hypocotyls induced initial interaction investigation involved Jaffe leaf light intensity lower plants lower side mechanical stimulation occur orientation particular pattern petioles photonastic photoreceptor phototropic curvature phototropic responses Phycomyces physiological phytochrome pigment plant growth plant movements plant organs Pohl & Russo pollen tube positive curvature pulvinus receptor red light region regulatory result rhizoids root cap Section seedlings sensitivity sensory shoots Sievers soil species sporangiophore starch grains statocytes statoliths stem stimulus reception suggested temperature tendrils thigmotropic tissues tropic curvature tropic response tropisms turgor turgor movements vertical wounding
Popular passages
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plant Tropisms: And other Growth Movements |
| Author | J.W. Hart |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0412530805, 9780412530807 |
| Length | 208 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Life Sciences / Botany |
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