An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development: Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780521518055 | 0521518059
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 5/24/2010
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A complete introduction to plant anatomy for undergraduates, with comprehensive coverage of basic plant structure and contemporary aspects of plant development. In addition, discussions of the mechanisms of development, the roles of the cytoskeleton, the evolution of plant structure and the relationship between structure and function occur throughout the book.
A plant anatomy textbook unlike any other on the market today. Carol A. Peterson described the first edition as 'the best book on the subject of plant anatom... MORE
A plant anatomy textbook unlike any other on the market today. Carol A. Peterson described the first edition as 'the best book on the subject of plant anatom... MORE
| Problems of adaptation to a terrestrial environment | |
| An overview of plant structure and development | |
| The protoplast of the eukaryotic cell | |
| Structure and development of the cell wall | |
| Meristems of the shoot and their roles in plant structure and development | |
| Morphology and development of the primary vascular system of the stem | |
| Sympodial systems and patterns of nodal anatomy | ... MORE |
| The epidermis | |
| The origin of secondary tissue systems and the effect of their formation on the primary body of seed plants | |
| The vascular cambium: structure and function | |
| Secondary xylem | |
| The phloem | |
| Periderm, rhytidome, and the nature of bark | |
| Unusual features of structure and development in stems and roots | |
| Secretion in plants | |
| The root | |
| The leaf | |
| Reproduction and the origin of the sporophyte | |
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