Advances in Botanical Research, 17
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780080561714
Description: This latest volume in the series focuses on evolution and palaeobotany, plant-microbe interactions, and biomechanics. Collinson reviews the Early Tertiary floras and presents new evidence on the evolution and diversification of land plants using computer analysis of plant assemblages and reconstructions of fossil plants and plant communities. Fries and Endress combine the skills of palaeobotanists and neobotanists to more closely examine the evolution and morphology of angiosperm flowers. Miller turns his attention to the bacteria symbiotic in the leaf nodules of plants. This most complex of rel.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 17; Copyright Page; CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 17; PREFACE; Contents; Chapter 1. Plant Evolution and Ecology During the Early Cainozoic Diversification; Chapter 2. Origin and Evolution of Angiosperm Flowers; Chapter 3. Bacterial Leaf Nodule Symbiosis; Chapter 4. Fracture Properties of Plants; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.