Crassulacean acid metabolism : biochemistry, ecophysiology, and evolution
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Crassulacean acid metabolism : biochemistry, ecophysiology, and evolution
（Ecological studies : analysis and synthesis, v. 114）
Springer-Verlag, c1996
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Papers from an International Workshop on Crassulacean Acid Metabolism, held at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama, Mar. 21-26, 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) represents one of the best-studied metabolic examples of an ecological adaptation to environmental stress. Well over 5 per cent of all vascular plant species engage in this water-conserving photosynthetic pathway. Intensified research activities over the last 10 years have led to major advances in understanding the biology of CAM plants. New areas of research reviewed in detail in this book include regulation of gene expression and the molecular basis of CAM, the ecophysiology of CAM plants from tropical environments, the productivity of agronomically important cacti and agaves, the ecophysiology of CAM in submerged aquatic plants, and the taxonomic diversity and evolutionary origins of CAM.
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