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"Plants, so predictable, stay where they are. And yet, like all living things, they also move: they grow, adapt, shed leaves and bark, spread roots and branches, snare pollinators, and reward cultivators. This book, the first to thoroughly explore the subject since Darwin's 1881 treatise o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koller, Dov (Author)
Other Authors: Van Volkenburgh, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Plants > Irritability and movements.
Tropisms.
Plantes > Irritabilité et mouvements.
Tropisme.
tropism.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
NATURE > Plants > General.
Plants > Irritability and movements
Tropisms
Pflanzen > Bewegung.
Bewegung > Pflanzen.
Tropismus > Pflanzen.
Pflanzen > Tropismus.
Rörelser (växter)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A guided tour of plant movements
  • Motors
  • Gravity-guided movements
  • The underground world
  • Light-driven movements
  • Tracking the sun
  • Prey-driven movements
  • Liberation movements : leaving the nest.

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