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Asymmetry in Plants: Biology of Handedness
Contributor(s): Bahadur, Bir (Editor), Krishnamurthy, K. V. (Editor), Ghose, Monoranjan (Editor)
ISBN: 0367730596     ISBN-13: 9780367730598
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $60.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Ecology
- Science | Life Sciences - Botany
- Science | Life Sciences - Evolution
Dewey: 571.2
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.76 lbs) 387 pages
 
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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.

Key selling features:

  • First consolidated book on Plant Handedness

  • Relates handedness, asymmetry and chirality to the evolution of different organizational levels in plant biology

  • Emphasizes handedness as a vital governing force in plant functional evolution

  • Provides a new perspective, hitherto ignored, into plant developemtn and evolution

  • Describes how an age-old phenomenon can give scope for investigation from a very modern interdisciplinary approach