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The development of a plant is a multifaceted, dynamic phenomenon. Due to their immobility, plants respond not only to internal developmental cues, but also to changes in the prevailing environmental conditions. Climate change has increased vulnerability in plants due to increasing concentrations of CO2 and other pollutants, and fluctuations in the growing environment. These changes affect crop growth and productivity thereby posing a major risk to global food security.
Physiology of Growth and Development in Horticultural Plants contains 22 chapters organized into six sections, beginning with an introduction on basic concepts of plant growth and development; followed by genetic basis of plant development; quantification of growth; and sensing and response of plants to various environmental signals. It also explores plant growth hormones and their role either singly or in combination in controlling various aspects of plant growth and development, and hormonal regulation of physiological and developmental processes. The book highlights intricate aspects of growth and development in horticultural plants with classic examples from the real world.
Features
· Presents information on plant growth and development; structure and genetic basis of plant development with quantification of growth; sensing and response of plants to various environmental signals; and various phytohormones and their role in controlling aspects of plant growth and development.
· Provides key scientific and technical advances, issues, and challenges in various areas of growth and development of horticultural plants.
· Demonstrates how the response of various plants to internal and external stimuli can be commercially exploited.
Physiology of Growth and Development in Horticultural Plants encourages the development of new techniques, technologies and innovative practices, and is an ideal reference for students of advanced plant sciences courses, researchers, and commercial horticultural practitioners.
Contents
Section I
Introduction - Definitions, Basic Concepts and Components of Growth and Development
1. Overview of plant structure and development.
2. Embryogenesis and early development of horticultural plants.
3. Structure of protoplast, cell division and cell growth in horticultural plants.
4. Meristems, differentiation and dedifferentiation.
5. Vascular cambium, xylem and phloem, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants.
6. Reproduction in horticultural plants.
Section II Genetic Aspects of Plant Growth and Development
7 Plant genome and regulation of gene expression.
Section III Quantitative Aspects and Environmental Regulation of Growth and Development
8. Growth stages, growth curves and growth analysis in horticultural plants.
9. Modelling of Horticultural Crops
Section IV Response of Plants to Environmental Stimuli
10. Photoperception and signaling of tropic and nontropic responses environment signals
11. Vernalization of horticultural plants.
12. Training and pruning, source-sink relationships and bud dormancy its causes and breaking methods.
Section V Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
13. Auxins - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants.
14. Gibberellins - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants.
15. Cytokinins - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants.
16. Abscisic acid - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants
17. Ethylene - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants
18. Brassinosteroids - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants
19. Jasmonates and other bioregulators - Basic functions, biosynthesis, their role in growth and development of horticultural plants
Section VI Hormonal Regulation of Physiological and Developmental Processes
20. Hormonal regulation of physiological and developmental processes in horticultural plants
21. Hormonal regulation of fruit setting, fruit development, fruit drop and fruit ripening
22. Hormonal regulation of senescence and abscission.
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