CHF 238.00

Structure and Function of Roots
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Structure and Function of Roots, June 20-26, 1993, Stará Lesná, Slovakia

English · Hardback

Shipping usually within 1 to 2 weeks

Description

Read more

In 1971, the late Dr. J. Kolek of the Institute of Botany, Bratislava, organized the first International Symposium devoted exclusively to plant roots. At that time, perhaps only a few of the participants, gathered together in Tatranska Lomnica, sensed that a new era of root meetings was beginning. Nevertheless, it is now clear that Dr. Kolek's action, undertaken with his characteristic enormous enthusiasm, was rather pioneering, for it started a series a similar meetings. Moreover, what was rather exceptional at the time was the fact that the meeting was devoted to the functioning of just a single organ, the root. One possible reason for the unexpected success of the original, perhaps naive, idea of a Root Symposium might lie with the fact that plant roots have always been extremely popular as experimental material for cytologists, biochemists and physiologists whishing to probe processes as diverse as cell division and solute transport. Of course, the connection of roots with the rest of the plant is not forgotten either. This wide variety of disciplines is now coupled with the development of increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques to study some of these old problems. These factors undoubtedly contribute to the necessity of continuing the tradition of the root symposia. The common theme of root function gives, in addition, a certain unity to all these diverse activities.

Report

`The book, as other volumes of this series, is well produced. It can be receommended to everybody searching up-to-date information concerning root anatomy and physiology.'
Biologia Plantarum, 38:1 (1996)

Product details

Assisted by Slovak Academy of Sciences Dr. Milada Ciamporova (Editor), Milad Ciamporová (Editor), Otília Gasparíková et al (Editor), Peter P.W. Barlow (Editor), Ciamporov¿Milada (Editor), Gaspar¿v¿Ot¿a (Editor), Frantisek Baluska (Editor), F. Baluska (Editor), Peter W. Barlow (Editor), Otília Gasparíková (Editor), Milada Ciamporová (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 26.06.2009
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany
 
EAN 9780792328322
ISBN 978-0-7923-2832-2
Pages 354
Illustrations X, 354 p.
Dimensions (packing) 19.5 x 26 cm
Weight (packing) 916 g
 
Series Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences > .58
Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences > 58
Subjects Transport, Development, Pflanzenbiologie, Bodenkunde und Bodenmanagement, Roots, Water, growth, Absorption, root growth
 

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.