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Volumes III and IV of this encyclopaedia provide a novel classification of the monocotyledons, a group encompassing plants of most diverse life-forms such as aquatics, terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, and tall trees. Of the 106 families now recognized 104 are treated in the two volumes, while the economically or horticulturally important grass and orchid families are relegated to two subsequent volumes. The classification followed here is based on recent molecular studies as well as on the vast body of information available on this plant group. The wealth and precision of information, but also the keys for the identification of genera and details on their properties, including distribution and diversification, make this work an important source for both the scholar and the practitioner in the fields of pure and applied plant sciences..
Volumes III and IV of this encyclopaedia provide a novel classification of the monocotyledons, a group encompassing plants of most diverse life-forms such as aquatics, terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, and tall trees. Of the 106 families now recognized 104 are treated in the two volumes, while the economically or horticulturally important grass and orchid families are relegated to two subsequent volumes. The classification followed here is based on recent molecular studies as well as on the vast body of information available on this plant group. The wealth and precision of information, but also the keys for the identification of genera and details on their properties, including distribution and diversification, make this work an important source for both the scholar and the practitioner in the fields of pure and applied plant sciences..
This volume - the first of this series dealing with angiosperms -
comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major
blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and
hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in
modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a
convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di cotyledon
families, but are far from taking them at face value for
biological, let alone mono phyletic entities. Angiosperm taxa above
the rank of family are little consolidated, as is easily seen when
comparing various modern classifications. Genera and families, in
contrast, are comparatively stable units -and they are important in
practical terms. The genus is the taxon most frequently recognized
as a distinct entity even by the layman, and generic names provide
the key to all in formation available about plants. The family is,
as a rule, homogeneous enough to conve niently summarize biological
information, yet comprehensive enough to avoid excessive re
dundance. The emphasis in this series is, therefore, primarily on
families and genera.
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Flowering Plants. Eudicots - Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Klaus Kubitzki; Contributions by C. Bayer, P.F. Stevens
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In this volume treatments are offered for 52 families containing
432 genera belonging to 13 eudicot orders, many of which have
recently been newly designed; four families remain unassigned to
order. Emphasis is on the early-diverging eudicots and basal core
eudicots. The wealth of information contained in this volume will
make it an important source of reference for both the scholar and
the practitioner in the fields of pure and applied plant
sciences.
Der Senior unserer Herausgebergemeinschaft HEINZ ELLENBERG hat sich
leider aus der Redaktion zuruckgezogen. Nach dem Tode von ERNST
GXUMANN hatte er 1963 (ab Band 26) zusammen mit ERWIN BUNNING die
Herausgeberschaft der "Fortschritte der Botanik" ubernommen. Seiner
Aufgeschlossenheit und auch seiner Initiative ist die dann spater
erfolgte Erweiterung des Herausgebergremiums und die damit
verbundene inhaltliche Umgestaltung zu verdanken. In seiner nunmehr
fast zwanzigjahrigen Betreuung des Abschnittes "Geobotanik" hat er
dazu beigetragen, daB dieses Teilgebiet zu einer wesentlichen Saule
unserer Reihe geworden ist. Herausgeber und Verlag mochten ihm fur
seine Redaktionsarbeit danken und hoffen, daB Herr ELLENBERG ihnen
auch weiterhin in alter Freund- schaft verbunden bleibt. An seiner
Stelle . hat von diesem Band ab Herr MICHAEL RUNGE die
Schriftleitung des Kapitels Geobotanik ubernommen. Die Herausgeber
Contents A. MORPHOLOGY I. Cytology a) General and Molecular
Cytology. By ANTHONY W. ROBARDS *** 1. Root Hairs
******************************************* 1 a) Development and
Structure of Root Hairs *********** 1 b) Microbial and Other
Associations with Root Hairs ** 3 2. Cytoplasmic Streaming
******************************** 6 a) General Experimental Effects
on Cytoplasmic Streaming *****************************************
7 b) Effects of Cytochalasin B on Cytoplasmic Streaming
***************************************** 8 c) Effects of Light and
of Growth Regulators on Cytoplasmic Streaming
***************************** 9 d) The Role of Calcium in
Cytoplasmic Streaming ****** 10 e) General Observations on
Cytoplasmic Streaming ***** 11 3. Calmodulin
******************************************* 1 2 References
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Cytology: Cytology and Morphogenesis of Higher Plant Cells -
Phloem. By H. -D.
This volume - the first of this series dealing with angiosperms -
comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major
blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and
hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in
modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a
convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di cotyledon
families, but are far from taking them at face value for
biological, let alone mono phyletic entities. Angiosperm taxa above
the rank of family are little consolidated, as is easily seen when
comparing various modern classifications. Genera and families, in
contrast, are comparatively stable units -and they are important in
practical terms. The genus is the taxon most frequently recognized
as a distinct entity even by the layman, and generic names provide
the key to all in formation available about plants. The family is,
as a rule, homogeneous enough to conve niently summarize biological
information, yet comprehensive enough to avoid excessive re
dundance. The emphasis in this series is, therefore, primarily on
families and genera."
When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series,
Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had
interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative
study and family classification of the monocots, he devoted much
energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the
present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had
worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot
manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no
longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts
in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to
form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots;
with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in
separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to
help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our
hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally,
although during my life as a botainst I had never seriously been
interested in monocots.
In the present volume - the sixth of this series - 48 flowering
plant families comprising a total of 712 genera are treated. They
represent the newly designed eurosid orders Celastrales, Oxalidales
and Rosales and the asterid orders Cornales and Ericales. The
recognition of these ordinal concepts is the result of numerous
recent gene sequence analyses which, for the first time in
angiosperm systematics, have provided a reliable higher order
classification. The concept of Ericales is largely expanded beyond
its conventional limits to make it monophyletic and now includes
parts of the erstwhile Ebenales, Lecythidales, Primulales and other
orders. The revised circumscription of families such as Ericaceae,
Celastraceae and Cunoniaceae owes much to the application of recent
molecular studies, and for the same reason in the primulalean
families, a complete remodeling of family limits is proposed.
This encyclopedia contains a comprehensive treatment of the
taxonomy of the families and genera of ferns and seed plants. The
present volume, the fifth in this series, deals with three major
groups of dicotyledons, the Capparales, Malvales, and Non-betalain
Caryophyllales.
When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series,
Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had
interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative
study and family classification of the mono cots, he devoted much
energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the
present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had
worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot
manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no
longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts
in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to
form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots;
with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in
separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to
help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our
hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally,
although during my life as a botanist I had never seriously been
interested in mono cots.
This volume presents systematic treatments for the families and
genera of the Malpighiales, which more recently have been
recognised as a new major group of the eudicots. Apart from several
herbaceous lineages (already treated in Vol. IX of this series),
the order consists mainly of rainforest trees, particularly those
of the understorey. Accompanied by other early eudicot lineages,
this reflects the well-documented origin of the group as invaders
into the conifer-, cycad- and seed fern-dominated forests of the
Cretaceous which, at that time, were transformed into the tropical
rainforest biome. In this volume, 24 families with 429 genera
comprising over 12,000 species are treated. Many of these belong to
the vast family of the Euphorbiaceae (here conceived in a broader
sense), followed by the Violaceae, whereas some of the remaining
families are very small and even relictual. The revised
classification includes a complete inventory of the genera
belonging to the families treated in this volume, along with their
diagnostic features and keys for their identification. References
to the latest taxonomic literature and links to many different
disciplines important to modern plant systematics make the volume a
valuable source of information on the manifold aspects of plant
diversity."
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