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Asymmetry in Plants -

Asymmetry in Plants

Biology of Handedness
Buch | Softcover
387 Seiten
2020
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-73059-8 (ISBN)
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Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry including the direction of tendril growth or stem coiling found in many climbing plants, spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy, and contorted petal arrangement.
Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in some but not in other plants. The book will underscore tha all phenomena related to handedness start during embryogenesis itself, with the occurrence of embryo rotation.



Key selling features:








First consolidated book on Plant Handedness



Relates handedness, asymmetry and chirality to the evolution of different organizational levels in plant biology



Emphasizes handedness as a vital governing force in plant functional evolution



Provides a new perspective, hitherto ignored, into plant developemtn and evolution



Describes how an age-old phenomenon can give scope for investigation from a very modern interdisciplinary approach

Bir Bahadur, K. V. Krishnamurthy, Monoranjan Ghose, S. John Adams

The Concept of Handedness. The handedness of the Universe. Perversion with a twist. Left-Right asymmetry in Plants and animals. Chirality in biological molecules. Handedness in nucleic acids. Helical thickening in tracheary elements. Embryo rotation. Nutational movements and their possible relation to tension wood differentiation. Handedness in plant tendrils. Seedling handedness in angiosperms. Handedness in climbing plants and lianas of Amazon and adjacent regions. Fibonacci sequence and spiral systems in plants. Enantiostyly, inversostyly. Phyllotaxy in Date palms. Leaf asymmetry. Plant Handedness in relation to yield. Corolla enatiomophism/Mirror images. Handedness in fossil plants. Fibonacci spirals general account. Fibonacci spirals in coconut and other palms. Handedness and yield in coconut. Handedness in relarion to yield in plants. Spiral grains in coinfer woods. Left- right handed in gymnosperm cones. Handedness in inflorescens of Orchids, Euphorbia and Aroids. Heteranthery in some legumes. Sunflower Spirals. Fibonacci spirals in palms Palms. Phyllotaxy in Alstroemeria. Twining in Dioscorea remizoa. Twining in Basella. Molecular and genetic basis of left-right handedness in plants.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 750 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Botanik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10 0-367-73059-6 / 0367730596
ISBN-13 978-0-367-73059-8 / 9780367730598
Zustand Neuware
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