Vascular Plants: Form and Function
β Scribed by Frank B. Salisbury, Robert V. Parke
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 290
- Series
- Fundamentals of Botany Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Vascular Plants....Pages 1-29
The Generalized Plant Cell....Pages 31-43
Some Basic Cellular Functions....Pages 45-66
Growth....Pages 67-76
Meristems....Pages 77-83
Differentiation....Pages 85-100
The Primary Plant Body....Pages 101-111
Stem and Root Growth in Response to Hormones....Pages 113-132
The Secondary Plant Body....Pages 133-139
The Leaf and Transpiration....Pages 141-156
The Root....Pages 157-163
The Ascent of Sap and the Translocation of Solutes....Pages 165-183
Sexual Reproduction....Pages 185-195
Photobiology....Pages 197-207
Biological Time Measurement....Pages 209-220
The Induction of Reproductive Development by Environment....Pages 221-236
The Seed and the Fruit....Pages 237-245
The Physiology of Germination....Pages 247-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-289
β¦ Subjects
Plant Sciences
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