Ebook: Rhythms in Plants: Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance
- Tags: Plant Physiology, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Cell Biology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Anatomy/Development
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Rhythmic behaviour is quintessential to life itself. Advances in plant molecular biology, micro/nanotechnology and applied mathematics provide new tools for understanding how environmental signals and internal clocks regulate rhythmic gene expression and development, and how these signals are translated into physiological responses at various levels of structural organisation.
This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the environment. It focuses on mechanisms and theoretical concepts at the level of the cell to the entire plant. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, it will surely spark the interest of readers from many branches of science: from physicists and chemists wishing to learn about multi-faceted rhythms in plant biology, to biologists dealing with state-of-the-art modelling of such rhythmic phenomena.
Rhythmic behaviour is quintessential to life itself. Advances in plant molecular biology, micro/nanotechnology and applied mathematics provide new tools for understanding how environmental signals and internal clocks regulate rhythmic gene expression and development, and how these signals are translated into physiological responses at various levels of structural organisation.
This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the environment. It focuses on mechanisms and theoretical concepts at the level of the cell to the entire plant. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, it will surely spark the interest of readers from many branches of science: from physicists and chemists wishing to learn about multi-faceted rhythms in plant biology, to biologists dealing with state-of-the-art modelling of such rhythmic phenomena.
Rhythmic behaviour is quintessential to life itself. Advances in plant molecular biology, micro/nanotechnology and applied mathematics provide new tools for understanding how environmental signals and internal clocks regulate rhythmic gene expression and development, and how these signals are translated into physiological responses at various levels of structural organisation.
This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the environment. It focuses on mechanisms and theoretical concepts at the level of the cell to the entire plant. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, it will surely spark the interest of readers from many branches of science: from physicists and chemists wishing to learn about multi-faceted rhythms in plant biology, to biologists dealing with state-of-the-art modelling of such rhythmic phenomena.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects....Pages 3-37
The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis....Pages 39-62
Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise?....Pages 63-76
Nutation in Plants....Pages 77-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Oscillations in Plant Transpiration....Pages 93-113
Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells....Pages 115-133
Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment....Pages 135-155
Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects....Pages 157-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock....Pages 181-198
Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behaviour: the Integral Output from Endogenous and Environmental Signals....Pages 199-217
Rhythms and Morphogenesis....Pages 219-243
Molecular Aspects of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock....Pages 245-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms....Pages 267-294
Modelling Ca2+ Oscillations in Plants....Pages 295-311
Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: Theoretical Considerations, Modelling and Experimental....Pages 313-339
Modelling Oscillations of Membrane Potential Difference....Pages 341-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-361
Rhythmic behaviour is quintessential to life itself. Advances in plant molecular biology, micro/nanotechnology and applied mathematics provide new tools for understanding how environmental signals and internal clocks regulate rhythmic gene expression and development, and how these signals are translated into physiological responses at various levels of structural organisation.
This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the environment. It focuses on mechanisms and theoretical concepts at the level of the cell to the entire plant. Written by a diverse group of leading researchers, it will surely spark the interest of readers from many branches of science: from physicists and chemists wishing to learn about multi-faceted rhythms in plant biology, to biologists dealing with state-of-the-art modelling of such rhythmic phenomena.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects....Pages 3-37
The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis....Pages 39-62
Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise?....Pages 63-76
Nutation in Plants....Pages 77-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Oscillations in Plant Transpiration....Pages 93-113
Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells....Pages 115-133
Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment....Pages 135-155
Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects....Pages 157-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock....Pages 181-198
Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behaviour: the Integral Output from Endogenous and Environmental Signals....Pages 199-217
Rhythms and Morphogenesis....Pages 219-243
Molecular Aspects of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock....Pages 245-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms....Pages 267-294
Modelling Ca2+ Oscillations in Plants....Pages 295-311
Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: Theoretical Considerations, Modelling and Experimental....Pages 313-339
Modelling Oscillations of Membrane Potential Difference....Pages 341-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-361
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