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Science and the Garden The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ingram, David S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2008.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
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?