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Asymmetry in plants: biology of handedness/ Bir Bahadur, K. V. Krishnamurthy, Monoranjan Ghose and S. John Adams eds.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2019Description: xix, 387 pages ills; 23.5 cmISBN:
  • 9781138587946
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 571.2 B151
Contents:
Chapter 1 The Concepts of Handedness, Asymmetry, Chirality, Spirality -- Chapter 2 Left-Right Symmetry in Animals and Plants: A Comparison -- Chapter 3 Asymmetry at the Cell Level -- Chapter 4 Handedness Events in Vascular Cambium and Their Relation -- Chapter 5 Broken Symmetry and Handedness in CryptogamsRobert W. Korn -- Chapter 6 Biology of Handedness in Fungi -- Chapter 7 The Nature of Right-Left Asymmetries in Plants -- Chapter 8 Molecular Bases and Genetic Aspects of Handedness in Plants -- Chapter 9 Embryo Handedness Caused by Embryo Rotations in Angiosperms -- Chapter 10 Circumnutation -- Chapter 11 Seedling Handedness in Some Angiosperms -- Chapter 12 A Comparison of Chirality Patterns in Climbing Plants (Lianas) of Moist Tropical Forest in Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 13 Handedness in Plant Tendrils -- Chapter 14 Fibonacci Sequence: A General Account -- Chapter 15 Sunflower Spirals -- Chapter 16 Determination of Parastichy Numbers and Its Applications -- Chapter 17 Floral Symmetry -- Chapter 18 Transference of Positional Information from Bracteoles and Sepals to Petals in Species with Labile Handedness of Contort Corolla: Mechanical Forces or Prepatterning? -- Chapter 19 Stylar Polymorphisms in Flowering Plants: An Overview -- Chapter 20 Enantiostyly in Angiosperms -- Chapter 21 Inversostyly: A Still Less Known Reproductive Mechanism Túlio Freitas Filgueira Sá, Natan Messias de Almeida, and Cibele Cardoso de Castro -- Chapter 22 More on Buzz Pollination—Pollen Rebounds in Asymmetric Flowers -- Chapter 23 Handedness in Plants in Relation to Yield: A Review -- Chapter 24 Concluding Remarks
Summary: Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in some but not in other plants. The book will underscore tha all phenomena related to handedness start during embryogenesis itself, with the occurrence of embryo rotation.
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Chapter 1 The Concepts of Handedness, Asymmetry, Chirality, Spirality -- Chapter 2 Left-Right Symmetry in Animals and Plants: A Comparison -- Chapter 3 Asymmetry at the Cell Level -- Chapter 4 Handedness Events in Vascular Cambium and Their Relation -- Chapter 5 Broken Symmetry and Handedness in CryptogamsRobert W. Korn -- Chapter 6 Biology of Handedness in Fungi -- Chapter 7 The Nature of Right-Left Asymmetries in Plants -- Chapter 8 Molecular Bases and Genetic Aspects of Handedness in Plants -- Chapter 9 Embryo Handedness Caused by Embryo Rotations in Angiosperms -- Chapter 10 Circumnutation -- Chapter 11 Seedling Handedness in Some Angiosperms -- Chapter 12 A Comparison of Chirality Patterns in Climbing Plants (Lianas) of Moist Tropical Forest in Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 13 Handedness in Plant Tendrils -- Chapter 14 Fibonacci Sequence: A General Account -- Chapter 15 Sunflower Spirals -- Chapter 16 Determination of Parastichy Numbers and Its Applications -- Chapter 17 Floral Symmetry -- Chapter 18 Transference of Positional Information from Bracteoles and Sepals to Petals in Species with Labile Handedness of Contort Corolla: Mechanical Forces or Prepatterning? -- Chapter 19 Stylar Polymorphisms in Flowering Plants: An Overview -- Chapter 20 Enantiostyly in Angiosperms -- Chapter 21 Inversostyly: A Still Less Known Reproductive Mechanism Túlio Freitas Filgueira Sá, Natan Messias de Almeida, and Cibele Cardoso de Castro -- Chapter 22 More on Buzz Pollination—Pollen Rebounds in Asymmetric Flowers -- Chapter 23 Handedness in Plants in Relation to Yield: A Review -- Chapter 24 Concluding Remarks

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in some but not in other plants. The book will underscore tha all phenomena related to handedness start during embryogenesis itself, with the occurrence of embryo rotation.

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