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Farewell to the Internal Clock

A contribution in the field of chronobiology

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Gunter Klein
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  • With the fresh perspective of a curious and insightful non-scientist, Mr. Klein examines the question of what force, time or tide, actually provides more influence over cellular biomechanics

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-3
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  2. In the beginning was the leaf

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 5-11

  3. Chronobiology today

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 13-22

  4. The Moon and chronobiology

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 23-30

  5. Location and mode of operation of the “internal clock”

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 31-35

  6. The mistake concerning the “internal clock” of the bean

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 37-58

  7. Does the “lunar clock” also tick for animals and human beings?

    • Gunter Klein
    Pages 59-96

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 97-116
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Nearly everything making up what we call the “environment” of a plant has an infuence on the way it grows. Sunlight, te- perature, moisture contents of soil and atmosphere and vib- tions are all obvious examples of environmental components, and transient variations in their amount or intensity lead the plant to manifest more or less immediate responses. Small changes in carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere can even have effects, but these take a longer time to be registered – at least those that are visible, albeit at the microscopic level. Plants meet the challenges of the environment by means of acclimation. In this respect, plants are notable for the pl- ticity of their development. However, where morphological or physiological plasticity is no longer an option, the responses would be by means of adaptations as a result of genetic - lection or genetic “assimilation” (Waddington 1957). Thus, a feature that was once a facultative transient response to an environmental perturbation becomes a constitutive charac- ristic of plant structure or function. It is in this way that the environment continually molds the way in which plants de- lop, and also defnes the areas upon planet Earth where they will thrive.

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