Progress in Botany 70

ISBN-13: 9783642087998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 283 str.

Ulrich L. Ttge; Wolfram Beyschlag; Burkhard B. Del

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Review.- From Liver to Leaves: Memories of a Plant Biochemist.- Genetics.- What's New in the Plant Cell Cycle?.- Physiology.- Solute Uptake in Plants: A Flow/Force Interpretation.- Oscillations, Synchrony and Deterministic Chaos.- Structure and Regulation of Plant Vacuolar H+-ATPase.- The Role and Regulation of Sugar Transporters in Plants with Crassulacean Acid Metabolism.- Ecology.- Epiphytic Plants in a Changing World-Global: Change Effects on Vascular and Non-Vascular Epiphytes.- Resolving the Dryland Decomposition Conundrum: Some New Perspectives on Potential Drivers.- Agricultural Crop Models: Concepts of Resource Acquisition and Assimilate Partitioning.- Clustered Distribution of Tree Roots and Soil Water Exploitation.- Quaternary Palaeoecology: Major Palaeoecological Problems of Europe.- Water Relations in the Mycorrhizosphere.- Erratum.

O autorze

Until 2004 Ulrich Lüttge taught at the Institute for Botany at the TU Darmstadt. He is an experienced teacher and is concerned with membrane physiology and biochemistry, circadian rhythms among photosynthesis processes as well as the antioxidative defense system of plants