Light and Plant Growth
Series: Topics in Plant Physiology; 1;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1988
- Publisher Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication 29 February 1988
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780045810239
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XX, 204 p. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
There are many recent works on the topic of light and plant growth. These have not only been written by experts, but are also, in the main, written for experts (or, at least, for those who already have a fair understanding of the subject). This book has its origins in a six-week course in plant photophysiology, and its aim is to provide an introduction to the subject at an advanced undergraduate level. The imagined audience is simply a student who has asked the questions: In what ways does light affect plant growth, and how does it do it? The book is limited to aspects of photomorphogenesis. Photo synthesis is only considered where its pigments impinge on photo morphogenic investigations, or where its processes provide illustrative examples of particular interactions between light and biological material. Chapter 1 gives a general account of the various ways in which light affects plant development, and introduces topics which are subsequently covered in greater detail. In all the chapters, are special topic 'boxes', consisting of squared-off sections of text. These are simply devices for presenting explanatory background material, or material that I myself find particularly intriguing.
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1 General introduction.- 1.1 Light and life.- 1.2 Light as an environmental factor.- 1.3 Light and plants.- 1.4 Light and photomorphogenesis.- 1.5 Light and orientation in space.- 1.6 Light and orientation in time.- 1.7 Summary.- Further reading.- 2 Radiant energy.- 2.1 Nature of radiant energy.- 2.2 Sources of radiant energy.- 2.3 Interaction of radiant energy with matter.- 2.4 Measurement of radiant energy.- 2.5 The light system.- 2.6 Summary.- Further reading.- 3 Daylight and artificial light.- 3.1 The Sun’s spectrum and daylight.- 3.2 Factors which influence the daylight spectrum.- 3.3 Artificial sources of radiant energy.- 3.4 Summary.- Further reading.- 4 Photoreceptors.- 4.1 Introductory comments.- 4.2 Phytochrome.- 4.3 Blue-light receptors.- 4.4 Summary.- Further reading.- 5 Metabolic transduction and amplification of light signals.- 5.1 Introductory comments.- 5.2 Phytochrome-mediated rapid responses.- 5.3 Light and enzymes.- 5.4 Light and growth regulators.- 5.5 Summary.- Further reading.- 6 Growth and development: photomorphogenesis.- 6.1 Introductory comments.- 6.2 Germination.- 6.3 Growth of etiolated seedlings.- 6.4 Growth of green tissues.- 6.5 De-etiolation and leaf expansion.- 6.6 Summary.- Further reading.- 7 Orientation in space: phototropism.- 7.1 Introductory comments.- 7.2 Signal perception: light responses.- 7.3 Signal processing: growth responses.- 7.4 Concluding remarks.- 7.5 Summary.- Further reading.- 8 Orientation in time: photoperiodism.- 8.1 Introductory comments.- 8.2 Circadian rhythms.- 8.3 Photoperiodism I: Early studies.- 8.4 Photoperiodism II.- 8.5 Summary.- Further reading.- Reference.
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