Instant Notes: Plant Biology

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Plant Biology ...

ii Section K – Lipid metabolism The INSTANT NOTES series Series editor B.D. Hames School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ...

Plant Biology A.J. Lack & D.E. Evans School of Biological & Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK 11 ...

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Abbreviations ix ...

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Section A – Introduction Preface xi A1 Introduction Section B – Structure B1 The plant cell B2 The cell wall B3 Pla ...

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11 111 111 111 111 11 2 ,4-D 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid 2,4,5-T 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid ABA abscisic acid ABP auxi ...

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Plant science has always been a fundamental area of biology, but the emphasis in the subject has changed radically in the last t ...

We would like to thank our families for their support throughout the writing, Margaret Evans for assis- tance with diagrams and ...

Section A – Introduction A1 Introduction What is a plant? The science of plant biology is primarily the study of flowering plant ...

To characterize the features that define plants as different from other eukaryotes is almost impossible since every feature has ...

Section B – Structure B1 The plant cell Cell structure Plant cells show a wide range of shapes and internal structures, dependin ...

Cell membranes The cell contains a system of membranes termed the endomembrane system involved in the synthesis and transport of ...

saccharides (Topic B2). Adjoining cells may be inter-connected by plasmo- desmata, pores through the wall where plasma membrane ...

Section B – Structure B2 The cell wall Almost all plant cells have a primary cell wall. It is made of a long-chain polysaccharid ...

compounds,lignins, that strengthen the wall. This is evident in wood(Topic C4). Lignin protects against digestion of the wall by ...