Rhythms in Plants (eBook)

Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance

Stefano Mancuso, Sergey Shabala (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2007
XX, 361 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-68071-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the environment. It focuses on mechanisms and theoretical concepts at the level of the cell to the entire plant. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, this book will spark the interest of readers from many branches of science.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 10
List of Contributors 16
Part 1 Physiological Implications of Oscillatory Processes in Plants 20
1 Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects 21
2 The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis 56
3 Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise? 80
4 Nutation in Plants 94
Part 2 Stomata Oscillations 108
5 Oscillations in Plant Transpiration 109
6 Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells 130
7 Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment 149
8 Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects 170
Part 3 Rhythms, Clocks and Development 191
9 How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock 192
10 Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behaviour: the Integral Output from Endogenous and Environmental Signals 210
11 Rhythms and Morphogenesis 229
12 Molecular Aspects of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock 254
Part 4 Theoretical Aspects of Rhythmical Plant Behaviour 274
13 Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms 275
14 Modelling Ca2+ Oscillations in Plants 303
15 Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: Theoretical Considerations, Modelling and Experimental Evidence 320
16 Modeling Oscillations of Membrane Potential Difference 347
Subject Index 362

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 361 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Calcium • Cells • Expression • gene expression • Innere Uhr • Internal clock • Molecular Biology • Morphogenesis • oscillations • Oszillationen • Pflanzen • plants • Rhythmen • Rhythms • Transport • Transporter
• ISBN-10: 3-540-68071-3 / 3540680713
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-68071-0 / 9783540680710