Progress in Botany 66

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.
The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.

List of contents

Review.- A Life History Between Science and Philosophy.- Genetics.- Recombination: RNA - A Powerful Tool for Recombination and Regulated Expression of Genes.- Mutation: Sugar Signaling Mutants in Arabidopsis.- Cell Biology: The Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - A Genetic Model Organism.- Extranuclear Inheritance: Mitochondrial Genetics and Biogenesis.- Population Genetics: Biodiversity in Anthropogenic Landscapes - Population Genetics and Ecological Modelling.- Plant Breeding: Recent Advances in Molecular Breeding of Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.).- Plant Breeding: Clonality - A Concept for Stability and Variability During Vegetative Propagation.- Physiology.- Proton Channelling b-Type Cytochromes in Plant Plasma Membranes?.- Photosynthesis. Carbon Metabolism: The Calvin Cycle's Golden Jubilee.- Physiology of Ectomycorrhiza (ECM).- Network Dynamics in Plant Biology: Current Progress in Historical Perspective.- Ecology.- UV-B Radiation, Photomorphogenesis and Plant-Plant Interactions.- Vertical Vegetation Structure Below Ground: Scaling from Root to Globe.- Ectomycorrhizal Community Structure: Linking Biodiversity to Function.- Tracing the Behaviour of Plants in Ecosystems: How Can Molecular Ecology Help?.- History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary North America.

About the author

Ulrich Lüttge lehrte bis zum Jahr 2004 als Ordinarius am Institut für Botanik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Ulrich Lüttges Arbeitsgruppe beschäftigt sich u.a mit Membranphysiologie und -biochemie, circadianer Rhythmik von Photosyntheseprozessen sowie dem antioxidativen Verteidigungssystem der Pflanze.

Summary

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.
The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.

Product details

• Assisted by: Wolfram Beyschlag (Editor), Wolfram Beyschlag et al (Editor), Karl Esser (Editor), Ulric Lüttge (Editor), Ulrich Lüttge (Editor), Jin Murata (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783642429422
• ISBN: 978-3-642-42942-2
• No. of pages: 451
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 25 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 451 p.
• Series: Progress in Botany; Progress in Botany; Progress in Botany. Structural Botany Physiology, Genetics, Taxonomy, Geobotany / Fortschritte der Botanik. Struktur, Physiologie, Genetik, Systematik, Geobotanik
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; C, Microbiology (non-medical), Evolution, Pflanzenbiologie, Genetik (nicht-medizinisch), Mikrobiologie (nicht-medizinisch), Botany, microbiology, Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Taxonomy & systematics, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant systematics, Plant Evolution, Plant taxonomy, Genetics (non-medical), Plant Genetics, Plant Genetics and Genomics