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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298268603321

Titolo

Rhythms in Plants : Dynamic Responses in a Dynamic Environment / / edited by Stefano Mancuso, Sergey Shabala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-20517-X

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

570

Soggetti

Plant physiology

Biophysics

Biological physics

Plant biochemistry

Plant anatomy

Plant development

Plant ecology

Plant Physiology

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Plant Biochemistry

Plant Anatomy/Development

Plant Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise?- Nutation in Plants -- Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behavior: How Endogenous and Environmental Signals Modulate the Root-Shoot Continuum -- Rhythmic leaf movements: physiological and molecular aspects -- Spatial and temporal responses in stomatal behaviour, photosynthesis and implications for water use efficiency -- The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry Into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis -- Oscillations in Plant Transpiration -- Photoperiodism: The Calendar of Plants -- Circadian Rhythms in



Stomata: physiological and molecular aspects -- Time to network: the molecular blueprint of the circadian timing system in plants -- Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: A Test Scenario for Plant Systems Biology -- Emergent oscillatory properties in modelling ion transport in guard cells -- Systems biology analysis of changes in potential across plasma membrane: physiological implications -- Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms.

Sommario/riassunto

This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update on recent advances in this field and comprehensively summarize the current state of knowledge concerning the molecular and physiological mechanisms behind circadian and ultradian oscillations in plants, their physiological implications for growth and development and adaptive responses to a dynamic environment. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, the book will spark the interest of readers from many branches of science: from physicists and chemists wishing to learn about the multi-faceted rhythms in plants, to biologists and ecologists involved in the state-of-the-art modelling of complex rhythmic phenomena.  .