Structure and Function of Roots
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Structure and Function of Roots, June 20–26, 1993, Stará Lesná, Slovakia
Editors: Baluska, F., Dr. Milada Ciamporova, S.A.o.S., Gasparíková, O., Barlow, P.W. (Eds.)
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In 1971, the late Dr. J. Kolek of the Institute of Botany, Bratislava, organized the first International Symposium devoted exclusively to plant roots. At that time, perhaps only a few of the participants, gathered together in Tatranska Lomnica, sensed that a new era of root meetings was beginning. Nevertheless, it is now clear that Dr. Kolek's action, undertaken with his characteristic enormous enthusiasm, was rather pioneering, for it started a series a similar meetings. Moreover, what was rather exceptional at the time was the fact that the meeting was devoted to the functioning of just a single organ, the root. One possible reason for the unexpected success of the original, perhaps naive, idea of a Root Symposium might lie with the fact that plant roots have always been extremely popular as experimental material for cytologists, biochemists and physiologists whishing to probe processes as diverse as cell division and solute transport. Of course, the connection of roots with the rest of the plant is not forgotten either. This wide variety of disciplines is now coupled with the development of increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques to study some of these old problems. These factors undoubtedly contribute to the necessity of continuing the tradition of the root symposia. The common theme of root function gives, in addition, a certain unity to all these diverse activities.
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`The book, as other volumes of this series, is well produced. It can be receommended to everybody searching up-to-date information concerning root anatomy and physiology.'
Biologia Plantarum, 38:1 (1996)
- Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Structure and function at the root apex — phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on apical cells and quiescent centres
Pages 3-18
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The origin of the basal part of the embryo root in Brassica napus L. and its role in growth of early seedlings
Pages 19-26
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Radicle of Echinocactus platyacanthus (Cactaceae)
Pages 27-31
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The relation between cell size, chromosome length and the orientation of chromosomes in dividing root cortex cells
Pages 33-39
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Importance of the post-mitotic isodiametric growth (PIG) region for growth and development of roots
Pages 41-51
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Structure and Function of Roots
- Book Subtitle
- Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Structure and Function of Roots, June 20–26, 1993, Stará Lesná, Slovakia
- Editors
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- F. Baluska
- Slovak Academy of Sciences Dr. Milada Ciamporova
- Otília Gasparíková
- Peter W. Barlow
- Series Title
- Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences
- Series Volume
- 58
- Copyright
- 1995
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-3101-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-3101-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-2832-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-4402-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 354
- Topics
