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This text explores the means, processes and mechanisms by which plants change the orientation and juxtapositions of various organs in order to optimize their harvest of energy, and examines the major stumuli which provokes such responses. These interactions are re-described for higher plants through to ferns, fungi and algae, and the text constantly emphasizes the functional significance of particular growth movements to plants in their natural surroundings.
List of contents
Tropisms and other forms of plant movement; plants and movement; plant turgor movements; plant growth movements; introduction to tropisms; general description; historical overview; gravitropism; general introduction; stimulus reception and transformation; regulation introduction; stimulus reception and transformation; regulation of the growth responses; phototropism; general introduction; stimulus reception and transformation; regulation of the growth responses in higher plants; phototropism; thigmotropism; general responses to mechanostimuli; thigmotropic responses; stimulus reception and transformation; other tropisms; chematropism; hydrotropism; traumatropism.
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...I commend you to read this book. The book is well written and illustrated, the author using topic boxes to present information which he finds particularly intriguing...the readership of the book will range from undergraduates and postgraduates studying plant science to conscientious naturalists wishing to find out more about how plants grow. - The Times Higher Education Supplement
