Overview
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Peter J. Davies
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Section of Plant Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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- Robert S. Bandurski, Jerry D. Cohen, Janet Pernise Slovin, Dennis M. Reinecke
Pages 39-65
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- Brian A. McGaw, Lindsay R. Burch
Pages 98-117
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- Thomas A. McKeon, Juan C. Fernández-Maculet, Shang-Fa Yang
Pages 118-139
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- Arthur W. Galston, Ravindar Kaur-Sawhney
Pages 158-178
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- Paul E. Staswick, Ilya Raskin, Richard N. Arteca
Pages 179-213
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- John V. Jacobsen, Frank Gubler, Peter M. Chandler
Pages 246-271
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- Kees R. Libbenga, Albert M. Mennes
Pages 272-297
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- Paul C. Bethke, Simon Gilroy, Russell L. Jones
Pages 298-317
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- Harry J. Klee, Michael B. Lanahan
Pages 340-353
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- Jeff Schell, Klaus Palme, Rick Walden
Pages 354-371
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- Steve Picton, Julie E. Gray, Don Grierson
Pages 372-394
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- Hugo Peña-Cortés, Lothar Willmitzer
Pages 395-414
About this book
Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants growand develop. Whilemetabolism providesthepowerand buildingblocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate these parts to produce the form that we recognize as a plant. In addition, theyplayacontrolling role inthe processes of reproduction. This book is a description ofthese natural chemicals: how they are synthesizedand metabolized; howthey work; whatwe knowoftheir molecular biology; how we measure them; and a description ofsome ofthe roles they play in regulating plant growth and development. Emphasis has also been placed on the new findings on plant hormones deriving from the expanding use ofmolecular biology as a tool to understand these fascinating regulatory molecules. Even at the present time, when the role of genes in regulating all aspects of growth and development is considered of prime importance, it is still clear that the path of development is nonetheless very much under hormonal control, either via changes in hormone levels in response to changes in gene transcription, or with the hormones themselves as regulators ofgene transcription. This is not a conference proceedings, but a selected collection ofnewly written, integrated, illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones, and the experimental work that is the foundation of this knowledge.
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`... it is relatively easy to read, gives the reader much multidisciplinary data and...thousands of bibliograhpic references.'
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 22:2 (2000)
Editors and Affiliations
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Section of Plant Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Peter J. Davies
