Instant Notes: Plant Biology

to 3 mm long, some genera bearing hermaphrodite flowers, others unisexual, borne in inflorescences (Fig. 1). Each flower contain ...

one whorl, probably evolving from bracts. When there are two different whorls, the inner whorl is referred to as the petals, but ...

Aggregation of flowers into inflorescencesis an adaptive trend in many plant families. It is taken to extreme specialization in ...

tongues can reach. The European bee orchid group, and a few other groups of orchids in other parts of the world, have flowers th ...

plants, including monocot trees, may be secondarily evolved from herbaceous plants. Short-lived plants are the end-points of the ...

To illustrate the unifying features that are used to place plants in different families, examples of three large and important f ...

Section R – Seed plants R5 Mechanisms of evolution Most plant species live in populations in which the individuals are capable o ...

associated with a self-incompatibility system (Topic H3). Flowers may open at different times of the year and not overlap in the ...

cycle, around or during meiosis or just after fertilization, the basic number for the plant can be doubled. This has occurred fr ...

Further reading General reading Bell, P.R. and Hemsley, A.R. (2000) Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity, 2nd Edn. Cambridge ...

Mauseth, J.D. (1988) Plant Anatomy. Benjamin/Cummings, California. Mol, J., Grotewold, E. and Koes, R. (1998) How genes paint fl ...

Malamy, J.E. and Benfey, P.N. (1997) Down and out in Arabidopsis: The forma- tion of lateral roots. Trends Plant Sci. 2 , 390–39 ...

Sims, T.L. (1993) Genetic-regulation of self-incompatibility. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 12 , 129–167. Section I Blatt, M.R. (2000) C ...

Cheplick, G.P. (ed) (1998) Population Biology of Grasses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Cox, C.B. and Moore, P.D. (1985 ...

Cohn, J. Day, R.B. and Stacey, G. (1998) Legume nodule organogenesis. Trends Plant Sci. 3 , 105–110. Dempsey, D.A., Shah, J. and ...

Salt, D.E., Smith, R.D. and Raskin, I. (1998) Phytoremediation. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Molec. Biol. 49 , 643–668. Simmo ...

Dodd, M.E., Silvertown, J.W. and Chase, M.W. (1999) Phylogenetic analysis of trait evolution and species diversity variation amo ...

Index ABC model of flower development, 102 Abscisic acid (ABA), 74–5, 78 seed dormancy and, 112 stomata and, 123 Abscission, 71, ...

Burseraceae, 239 Butchers’ broom, 39 Buttercup family, 309, 312 Butterflies, 184–5, 199, 210, 309–10 Butterwort, 224 Ca2+ATPase, ...

Dacrydium franklinii, 175 Daffodil, 43 Damping off, 218 Dandelion (Taraxacum), 105 Dasheen, 229 DDT, 231 Dead nettle, 309 Decidu ...