Rhythms in Plants Dynamic Responses in a Dynamic Environment
This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update on recent advance
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ythms in Plants Dynamic Responses in a Dynamic Environment Second Edition
Rhythms in Plants
Stefano Mancuso Sergey Shabala •
Editors
Rhythms in Plants Dynamic Responses in a Dynamic Environment Second Edition
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Editors Stefano Mancuso Dipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Agroalimentari e dell’Ambiente, LINV–International Lab for Plant Neurobiology University of Florence Sesto Fiorentino Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-20516-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20517-5
Sergey Shabala School of Land and Food University of Tasmania Hobart, TAS Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-20517-5
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Preface
Rhythmical behaviour is a quintessential pattern of life itself and is believed to play a key role in cell division and morphogenesis, to mediate all kind of movements, and to provide an advantageous strategy for evolution and adaptation of living organisms. Rhythms have fascinated people for more than 2000 years. As early as the fourth century B.C., Androsthenes, scribe to Alexander the Great, noted that the leaves of Tamarindus indica opened during the day and closed at night (Bretzl 1903). Some early writers notice single movements of parts of plants in a cursory manner, Albertus Magnus in the thirteenth century and Valerius Cordus in the sixteenth century, thought the daily periodical movements of the pinnate leaves of some Leguminosae worth recording. Ray in his “Historia Plantarum” at the end of the seventeenth century commences his general considerations on the nature of the plants with a succinct account of phytodinamical phenomena mixing up together the movements from irritability and the daily periodical movements; the latter, he says, occur not only
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