The shoot apical meristem : its growth and development
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The shoot apical meristem : its growth and development
（Developmental and cell biology series, 34）
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Bibliography: p. 233-267
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The shoot apex, although tiny and enclosed in the apical bud, forms the whole of the shoot system of plants as well as having a key role in producing leaves and flowers, so an appreciation of how it functions is essential to an understanding of plant growth. In this book the questions of how it grows, and how fast, and the likely cellular processes that are involved in the formation of leaves and flowers are examined at the biochemical, physiological, biophysical, and molecular and genetic levels, in order to try to explain how the shoot apex works. Graduate students and researchers in plant development will be interested in this book, which is the only one currently available that is wholly devoted to the growth and physiology of the shoot apex and its key role in the formation of leaves and flowers.
Table of Contents
- Preface: the shoot apex: what it is and what it does
- 1. A source of cells: the apical cell
- 2. A source of cells: the meristem
- 3. Growth rates within the shoot apex
- 4. Cell cycles
- 5. The subcellular and biochemical structure of the meristem
- 6. The mechanism of primordium initiation
- 7. Positioning the primordia
- 8. Partitioning the apex: the size of the apical meristem and the primordia
- 9. The transition to flowering
- 10. The new floral meristem
- Index.
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