Science and the Garden The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2008.
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Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- List of Contributors
- 1 Diversity in the Plant World
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- CREATING ORDER OUT OF DISORDER
- COLONISATION OF THE LAND
- COMMUNITIES AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE FORMS
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER READING
- 2 Know Your Plant: Structure and Function
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- ENERGY FLOW IN THE BIOSPHERE: PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION
- THE LEAF: INTO THE LABYRINTH
- The manufacturing centre
- Cells
- Layout of the leaf
- Controlling gas and water exchange
- Protection against harmful radiation
- Palisade tissues: the sites of photosynthesis
- The transport system
- Movement of water, minerals and hormones in the xylem
- Transport of carbohydrates and hormones in the phloem
- Producing new xylem and phloem: the cambium
- The bundle sheath
- Connecting with the stem
- Leaf fall
- Leaf patterns: phyllotaxy
- Variations on a theme
- THE STEM: REACH FOR THE SKY
- The growing point
- Forming new leaves
- A tower of strength
- Secondary thickening: the formation of wood and bark
- Bark
- Stem modifications
- THE ROOT: MINING FOR MINERALS AND WATER
- The structure and growth of the root
- Storage roots and other modifications
- Nitrogen fixation
- Mycorrhizas
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER READING
- 3 Reproduction: Securing the Future
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION
- SEXUAL REPRODUCTION
- Cones and flowers
- Alternation of generations
- Floral diagrams and formulae
- Seeds and fruits
- Other fruits
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER READING
- 4 Naming Plants
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW TO IDENTIFY A PLANT
- THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF NAMES
- TAXONOMY: ORDER IN DIVERSITY
- The botanical framework
- New developments
- TAXONOMY OF CULTIVATED PLANTS
- Distinctiveness
- Uniformity
- Stability
- WHY PLANTS CHANGE THEIR NAMES
- Taxonomic changes
- Nomenclatural
- Misidentification
- THE QUEST FOR STABILITY AND LINKING INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE
- Stability of botanical plant names
- Stability of cultivated plant names
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER READING
- 5 Selecting and Breeding Plants
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION: ADAPTATION AND DESIGN
- GENES
- Transcription factors
- Chromosomes
- DNA replication
- GENOMES
- Gamete formation
- Recombination
- Allelic variation
- MUTATION
- Transposons
- Somatic and germ line mutations
- Chimeras
- HETERO- AND HOMOZYGOSITY
- Dominant and recessive alleles
- BREEDING SYSTEMS
- Breeding inbred lines
- Breeding open-pollinated populations
- Clonal propagation
- F1 hybrid breeding
- Wide hybridisation
- Somatic variation
- Somatic hybridisation
- RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY
- Marker-assisted breeding
- Genome sequencing
- Genetic modification
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER READING
- 6 Soils and Roots
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- Why do plants need soil?
- What do plants want from the soil?