Phyllotaxis : a systemic study in plant morphogenesis
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Phyllotaxis : a systemic study in plant morphogenesis
(Paperback re-issue)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"First published 1994"--T.p. verso
"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-371) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Phyllotaxis, the study of the patterns exhibited by leaves and other organs of plants, raises some of the deepest questions of plant morphogenesis. What principles of biological organisation produce these dynamical geometric systems? The constant occurrence of the Fibonacci sequence in such systems is a phenomenon that has fascinated botanists and mathematicians for centuries. In this book, first published in 1994, the many facets of phyllotaxis are dealt with in an integrated manner for the first time. The author describes a unified concept of phyllotaxis based on experimental, anatomical, cellular, physiological and paleontological observations. The book provides a framework for formal analyses of botanical data and emphasises the relevance of the phyllotactic paradigm in the study of other structures, such as crystals and proteins. It is of interest to cystallographers and physicists as well as to botanists and mathematicians.
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Part I. Pattern Recognition: Introduction
- 1. The centric representation
- 2. The fundamental theorem and its applications
- 3. Hierarchal control in phyllotaxis
- 4. Allometry-type model in phyllotaxis
- 5. Practical pattern recognition
- Epilogue
- Part II. Pattern Generation: A Key to the Puzzles: Introduction
- 6. An interpretative model
- 7. Testing the interpretative model
- 8. The interpretative model and whorled patterns
- 9. Convergences among models
- Epilogue
- Part III. Origins of Phyllotactic Patterns: Introduction
- 10. Exotic phyllotaxis
- 11. Morphogenetical parallelism and autoevolutionism
- 12. The challenge redefined
- Epilogue
- Part IV. Complements: Introduction
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Indexes.
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