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Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development /
Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to chemical signals both from neighbouring cells and distant tissues. It is these responses that shape the plant, its time of flower...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Developmental and cell biology series ;
41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to chemical signals both from neighbouring cells and distant tissues. It is these responses that shape the plant, its time of flowering, the sex of its flowers, its length of survival or progress to senescence and death. How do plants achieve this? This up-to-date treatise addresses this question using well-chosen examples to illustrate the concept of target cells. The authors discuss how each cell has the ability to discriminate between different chemical signals, determining which it will respond to and which it will ignore. The regulation of gene expression through signal perception and signal transduction is at the core of this selectivity and the Target Cell concept. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for all researchers working in the field of plant developmental biology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511115857 9780511115851 0511122136 9780511122132 051154622X 9780511546228 0521330769 9780521330763 |