Fruit and Seed Production - Aspects of Development, Environmental Physiology and Ecology

Klappentext A comprehensive treatment of the environmental physiology and ecology of fruit and seed production in higher plants. Zusammenfassung Flowering and fruiting are key processes in the biology of higher plants! ensuring the transfer of genetic material from one generation to the next. This topic has received relatively little attention until now compared with studies on the growth and development of vegetative structures. This book addresses this deficiency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Preface; 1. Plant reproductive biology: an overview H. W. Woolhouse; 2. The environmental control of reproductive development R. F. Lyndon; 3. Pollination and fertilization in higher plants S. J. Owens; 4. Embryogenesis D. J. Bowles; 5. Environmental and internal regulation of fruiting, with particular reference to Cox's Orange Pippin apple G. K. Goldwin; 6. Fruit growth and sink strength L. C. Ho; 7. Control of grain growth and development C. M. Duffus; 8. The regulation of maternal investment in plants A. G. Stephenson; 9. Ecological and physiological aspects of reproductive allocation C. Marshall and M. A. Watson; 10. Are the distributions of species determined by failure to set seed? C. D. Pigott; 11. Edible fruits in a cool climate: the evolution and ecology of endozoochory in the European flora Q. O. N. Kay; Index.

Product details

• Authors: C. Marshall, C. Grace Marshall
• Assisted by: J. Grace (Editor), C. Marshall (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521050456
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05045-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Society for Experimental Biolo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works