Farewell to the Internal Clock - A contribution in the field of chronobiology (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

Nearly everything making up what we call the "environment" of a plant has an infuence on the way it grows. Sunlight, te- perature, moisture contents of soil and atmosphere and vib- tions are all obvious examples of environmental components, and transient variations in their amount or intensity lead the plant to manifest more or less immediate responses. Small changes in carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere can even have effects, but these take a longer time to be registered - at least those that are visible, albeit at the microscopic level. Plants meet the challenges of the environment by means of acclimation. In this respect, plants are notable for the pl- ticity of their development. However, where morphological or physiological plasticity is no longer an option, the responses would be by means of adaptations as a result of genetic - lection or genetic "assimilation" (Waddington 1957). Thus, a feature that was once a facultative transient response to an environmental perturbation becomes a constitutive charac- ristic of plant structure or function. It is in this way that the environment continually molds the way in which plants de- lop, and also defnes the areas upon planet Earth where they will thrive.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Gunter Klein
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	116
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-40315-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-387-40315-9
Barcode:	9780387403151

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