Plants : diversity and evolution / Martin J. Ingrouille, Bill Eddie.
Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, C2006.Description: xiv, 440 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 0521790972 (hbk.)
- 0521794331 (pbk.)
- 580 22 ING
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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
Includes index: p.426-440
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