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Rhythms in Plants

Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Stefano Mancuso

    1. Department of Horticulture LINV International Laboratory on Plant Neurobiol, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

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  2. Sergey Shabala

    1. School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Tas, Australia

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  • Elucidates rhythmic processes in plants - from the cellular level to the entire organism
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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.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Physiological Implications of Oscillatory Processes in Plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects

      • Nava Moran
      Pages 3-37

    3. The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis

      • Nuno Moreno, Renato Colaço, José A. Feijó
      Pages 39-62

    4. Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise?

      • Tobias I. Baskin
      Pages 63-76

    5. Nutation in Plants

      • Sergio Mugnai, Elisa Azzarello, Elisa Masi, Camilla Pandolfi, Stefano Mancuso
      Pages 77-90

  3. Stomata Oscillations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Oscillations in Plant Transpiration

      • Anders Johnsson
      Pages 93-113

    3. Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells

      • Michael R. Blatt, Carlos Garcia-Mata, Sergei Sokolovski
      Pages 115-133

    4. Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment

      • Martin R. Mcainsh
      Pages 135-155

    5. Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects

      • Katharine E. Hubbard, Carlos T. Hotta, Michael J. Gardner, Soeng Jin Baek, Neil Dalchau, Suhita Dontamala et al.
      Pages 157-177

  4. Rhythms, Clocks and Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock

      • Wolfgang Engelmann
      Pages 181-198

    3. Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behaviour: the Integral Output from Endogenous and Environmental Signals

      • Johannes Normann, Marco Vervliet-Scheebaum, Jolana T. P. Albrechtová, Edgar Wagner
      Pages 199-217

    4. Rhythms and Morphogenesis

      • Peter W. Barlow, Jacqueline Lück
      Pages 219-243

    5. Molecular Aspects of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock

      • Tracey Ann Cuin
      Pages 245-264

  5. Theoretical Aspects of Rhythmical Plant Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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    2. Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms

      • David Lloyd
      Pages 267-294

    3. Modelling Ca2+ Oscillations in Plants

      • Gerald Schönknecht, Claudia Bauer
      Pages 295-311

    4. Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: Theoretical Considerations, Modelling and Experimental

      • Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Ulrich Lüttge
      Pages 313-339
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Horticulture LINV International Laboratory on Plant Neurobiol, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Stefano Mancuso

  • School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Tas, Australia

    Sergey Shabala

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