Patterns in Plant Development

Patterns in Plant Development offers an introduction to the development of the whole plant.

Taylor A. Steeves (Author), Ian M. Sussex (Author)

9780521246880, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 July 1989

406 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.708 kg

"The text is well-organized and illustrated...should be useful to undergraduate and graduate students seeking to learn more about how healthy plants develop. It will also be valuable as a reference for plant pathologists who have research interests in the development of plants and to those who wish to review plant development..." Phytopathology News

Patterns in Plant Development offers an introduction to the development of the whole plant. It is essentially a factual book that describes the complex phenomena of development in vascular plants. The point of view is structural, and emphasis is placed on the experimental approach to development. The book deals with lower vascular plants (e.g. ferns) as well as seed plants, so that the treatment of the plant, beginning with the embryo and continuing through the phase of secondary growth (the vascular cambium) is presented. The book is written so that anyone who has completed a basic first-year university course in biology or botany will be able to use it without difficulty. Sufficient background information is provided so that the reader is not required to have an extensive technical background.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Development in the vascular plants
2. Embryogenesis: beginnings of development
3. Analytical and experimental studies of embryo development
4. The structure of the shoot apex
5. Analytical studies of the shoot apex
6. Experimental investigations on the shoot apex
7. Organogenesis in the shoot: leaf origin and position
8. Organogenesis in the shoot: determination of leaves and branches
9. Organogenesis in the shoot: later stages of leaf development
10. Determinate shoots: thorns and flowers
11. The development of the shoot system
12. The root
13. Differentiation of the plant body: the origin of pattern
14. Differentiation of the plant body: the elaboration of pattern
15. Secondary growth: the vascular cambium
16. Secondary growth: experimental studies on the cambium
17. Alternative patterns of development
Credits
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST], Developmental biology [PSC]