Plant architecture and its manipulation
By: edited by Colin G.N. Turnbull
Series: Annual plant reviews -- v. 17; Annual plant reviews -- v. 17.
Publisher: Blackwell; CRC Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781405146234
Subjects: Plant anatomy; Life Sciences; Anatomy & Physiology; SCIENCE
Description: Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 17 Conventionally, architecture relates to buildings, embracing both art and science, and specifying both form and function. In scope, this closely matches the study of plant architecture. From an artistic perspective, we might marvel at the astonishing diversity of aesthetically pleasing plant structures, yet as scientists we know that, through natural selection, very little of form is dissociated from function. The origins of studies of plant architecture and their influences on human existence are steeped in history, but, from a twenty-first century perspective,
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Plant Architecture and its Manipulation; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Cellular architecture: Regulation of cell size, cell shape and organ initiation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Growth and cell proliferation are related but separable components controlling cellular architecture; 1.3 Meristems as a source of cells in the plant; 1.4 Patterning of cellular architecture; 1.5 The cellular decision to proliferate or not to proliferate; 1.6 The cytoskeleton as an intermediary in the regulation of cellular architecture; 1.7 The supracellular organisation of growth; 1.8 Conclusions