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- Covering new and exciting aspects of communication and behaviour in plants
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM)
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About this book
Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for the accumulation of photosynthate. Plants are revealing themselves to be dynamic and highly sensitive organisms that actively and competitively forage for limited resources, both above and below ground, organisms that accurately gauge their circumstances, use sophisticated cost-benefit analysis, and take clear actions to mitigate and control diverse environmental threats. Moreover, plants are also capable of complex recognition of self and non-self and are territorial in behavior. They are as sophisticated in behavior as animals but their potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many orders of magnitude less than those of animals. Plants are sessile organisms. As such, the only alternative to a rapidly changing environment is rapid adaptation. This book will focus on all these new and exciting aspects of plant biology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant-Environment Interactions
Book Subtitle: From Sensory Plant Biology to Active Plant Behavior
Editors: Franti¿ek Balu¿ka
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89230-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-89229-8Published: 14 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10037-6Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-89230-4Published: 03 March 2009
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 308
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences, Biochemistry, general, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Ecology