Overview
- Overview on what is known about plant growth regulation and growth restraint by environmental conditions
- Allows readers at all levels an entry into this exciting field of research
- Valuable resource for active researchers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Plant Cell Monographs (CELLMONO, volume 10)
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Plant growth is of great economical and intellectual interest. Plants are the basis of our living environment, the production of our food and a myriad of plant-based natural products. Plant bio-mass is also becoming an important renewable energy resource.
Agricultural plant cultivation and breeding programs have altered plant productivity and yield parameters extensively, yet the principles and underlying mechanisms are not well understood. At the cellular level, growth is the result of only two processes, cell division and cell expansion, but these two processes are controlled by intertwined signaling cascades and regulatory mechanisms forming complex regulatory networks. Ultimately this network is what plant scientists are trying to unravel.
The sequencing of model and agronomically important plant genomes allows complete insight into the molecular components involved in each process. Methods to quantify the molecular changes, image growth processes and reconstruct growth regulatory networks are rapidly developing. This knowledge should help to elucidate key regulators and to design methods to engineer plant architecture and growth parameters for future human needs. This volume gives a comprehensive overview of what is known about plant growth regulation and growth restraints due to environmental conditions and should allow readers at all levels an entry into this exiting field of research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Growth Signaling
Editors: László Bögre, Gerrit Beemster
Series Title: Plant Cell Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77590-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77589-8Published: 12 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09632-7Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-77590-4Published: 15 May 2008
Series ISSN: 1861-1370
Series E-ISSN: 1861-1362
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology