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Understanding Flowers and Flowering
An Intergrated Approach

Beverly Glover

Price: £32.50 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856596-3
Publication date: 8 November 2007
256 pages, 36 line, 10 b/w halftone, 26 color halftone, 246x189 mm
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  • ''...this is a fascinating book that will be useful to senior undergraduates' | British Ecological Society | June 2008' -

Description
  • Uniquely addresses flowers and flowering from both a molecular genetic and an ecological perspective, providing the first truly integrated study of the topic
  • Provides a detailed description of the processes which lead to flower production in model plants
  • Examines how flowers differ in shape, structure and colour, and how these differences are generated
  • Assesses the role of these various aspects of floral biology in attracting pollinators and ensuring successful reproduction.
  • The breadth of coverage and integrated approach makes this advanced textbook an ideal choice for anyone interested in any aspect of floral biology.
Flowers are the beautiful and complex reproductive structures of the angiosperms, one of the most diverse and successful groups of living organisms. The underlying thesis of this book is that to fully understand plant development (and why flowers differ in shape, structure and colour), it is necessary to understand why it is advantageous for them to look like they do. Conversely, in order to fully understand plant ecology, it is necessary to appreciate how floral structures have adapted and evolved. Uniquely, this book addresses flowers and flowering from both a molecular genetic perspective (considering flower induction, development and self-incompatibility) and an ecological perspective (looking at the selective pressures placed on plants by pollinators, and the consequences for animal-plant co-evolution).

Understanding Flowers and Flowering first considers the evolution of flowers and the history of research into their development. This is followed by a detailed description of the processes which lead to flower production in model plants. The book then examines how flowers differ in shape, structure and colour, and how these differences are generated. Finally it assesses the role of these various aspects of floral biology in attracting pollinators and ensuring successful reproduction. In so doing, it provides the first truly integrated study of the topic - one that discusses both the how? and why? of flowering plant reproductive biology.

The breadth of coverage and integrated approach makes this advanced textbook an ideal choice for anyone interested in any aspect of floral biology. It will be particularly suitable for graduate level students taking courses in plant development, ecology, evolution, and reproductive biology.

Readership: The primary markets for this book are senior undergraduate and graduate students studying plant science modules and courses (e.g. plant reproductive biology, plant evolution, plant development, plant physiology and plant ecology). This book will also be of interest, and value, to postgraduate students and researchers studying plant reproductive or ecological biology and seeking a broad and integrated overview of the topic. University teachers will find this book invaluable when designing courses and composing lectures which cover a breadth of material.

Contents
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. The Evolution of Flowers
Chapter 2. Historical Interpretations of Flower Induction and Flower Development
THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF FLOWERING: INDUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 3. Flower induction in Arabidopsis thaliana
Chapter 4. The autonomous pathways for floral inhibition and induction
Chapter 5. The photoperiodic pathway of floral induction
Chapter 6. The vernalization pathway of floral induction and the role of gibberellin
Chapter 7. Integrating the Arabidopsis thaliana flower induction pathways and assessing the extent to which the model is ubiquitous
Chapter 8. Changes at the shoot apical meristem in response to floral induction
Chapter 9. Development of the floral organs
Chapter 10. The ABC model in evolution
Chapter 11. Development of gametes
Chapter 12. Preventing self-fertilisation
POLLINATION SUCCESS: MOLECULAR AND ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
Chapter 13. Why are flowers different? Pollination syndromes - the theory
Chapter 14. Changing floral shape and structure
Chapter 15. Colouring the flower
Chapter 16. Enhancing flower colour
Chapter 17. Are flowers under selective pressure to increase pollinator attention?
Chapter 18. Do pollinators discriminate between different floral forms?
Chapter 19. Pollination syndromes - the evidence
Epilogue
Bibliography

Authors, editors, and contributors


Beverly Glover, University Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Plant reproduction & propagation
Plant physiology
Plant morphology
Plant ecology
Molecular biology
Evolution

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