TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ingrouille,Martin J.
AU  - Eddie,Bill
TI  - Plants: diversity and evolution 
SN  - 0521790972 (hbk.)
U1  - 580 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Plant diversity
KW  - Plants
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Plant ecology
N1  - CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1   Process, form and pattern

1.1	Living at the edge of chaos
1.2	Process: the evolution of photosynthesis
1.3	Form: the origin of complex cells
1.4	Pattern: multicellularity in the algae
1.5	What is a plant
1.6	Sub-aerial transmigration of plants 
Further reading chapter 1

Chapter 2     The genesis of form

    2.1 Plant development
    2.2 Plant growth and differentiation
    2.3 The integration of developmental processes
    2.4 Cellular determination
    2.5 The epigenetics of plant development etc.

Chapter 3 Endless forms?

     3.1 The living response
     3.2 The nature of evolutionary processes
     3.3 Order, transformation and emergency
     3.4 Macromutation and evolutionary novelty
     3.5 Unity and diversity; constraint and relaxation
     3.6 The Phenotype etc.

Chapter 4 Sex, multiplication and dispersal

        4.1 The yin and yang of reproduction
        4.2 Sex
        4.3 Dispersal
        4.4 From sex to establishment
       4.5 The dispersal mechanisms
       4.6 The diversity of flowers
         Further reading for chapter 4

Chapter 5   Ordering the path of diversity

         5.1 The phylogeny of plants
        5.2 The non-flowing plants
        5.3 Class Magnoliopsida-flowering plants
             Further reading for chapter 5

Chapter 6 The lives of plants

       6.1 Plant diversity around the world
       6.2 Aquatic and wetland plants
       6.3 Halophytes
       6.4 Plant of low-nutrient conditions
       6.5 Plant of moist shady habitats (sciophytes)

Chapter 7 The fruits of the earth

      7.1 Exploiting plants
      7.2 Plants for food
     7.3 Plants for crafts and fuel
    7.4 Plants for the soul
  7.5 The flowering of civilization
       Further reading chapter 7

Chapter 8 Knowing plants

      8.1 The emergency of scientific botany
      8.2 Evolutionary botany
     8.3 Phylogeny, genetics and the new systematics
    8.4 The green future
        Further reading for chapter 8

    Index

       

    
   





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