Plasticity in Plants.1987.370 p. Bound.

This volume, the first published in this field for many years, dealswith the important twin themes of Plasticity and Stability in plantgrowth (central to our understanding of how plants function in thenatural world), providing a very broad coverage of the subject withimportant chapters on plasticity in the algae and fungi. This bookshould be of particular interest to all those working in the field ofplant development, physiology, and valuable to all botanists since itprovides significant insights of relevance to all areas of the subject.- Contents: The ecological significance of plasticity/ Resourceallocation under poor growth conditions. A major role for growthsubstances in development plasticity/ Unstable genes in plants/Transformation of the geomic expression of plant cells/ Stability andplasticity during chloroplast development/ Stability of the determinedstate/ Plasticity in morphogenetic expression in plants/ Cellularinteractions in tissue and organ development/ Plasticity in shootdevelopment: a biophysical view/ Control of shoot apical development viacell division/ The flowering process as an example of plasticdevelopment/ Plastic responses of leaves/ The role of electric phenomenain tip growth, with special reference to the developmental plasticityof filamentous fern gametophytes/ Morphological plasticity in fungi/Plasticity in algae.