The Physiology of Flowering Plants: Their Growth and Development [antikvár]

Preface to the First Edition The present volume is an introduction to the many problems posed by the i' growth and development of flowering plants. We hope that such an introduction will meet the needs especially of first and second year University students of biology and those concerned with the teaching of biology in our schools. i Chapters dealing with the water relations, solute movement, nutrition ; and energy balances of the developing plant lead on to those describing f growth, growth movements and morphogenesis. Such an approach inevitably ; omits consideration of major aspects of plant metabolism, more appropriately treated in an introduction to cellular physiology and biochemistry. This restriction of the scope of the present volume has been imposed, not only by considerations of space, but because we feel it corresponds to a widely-adopted pattern in modem university teaching. ^ Text figures and plates are particularly valuable to the teaching of our ^ subject matter and we are deeply appreciative to authors and publishers for permission to reproduce many of our illustrations. j Throughout the writing and particularly in the final stages of preparing the ! manuscript, we have benefited from the expert and painstaking help of our | editor, Professor A.J. Willis. Leicester and Swansea H.E.S. 1970 H.O. Preface to the Second Edition The revisions introduced for this new edition have, we hope, appropriately updated but not altered the standard and general theme of our 1970 text. TTiose aspects of plant physiology which feature prominently in current research have needed most extensive revision; these include the metabolic aspect of germination (Chapter 1), phloem and hormone transport (Chapter 6), growth movements (Chapter 10) and many facets of developmental physiology (Chapters 11 and 12 replacing our original Chapter 11). The treatment of the water relations of plant cells has been rewritten in water potential terminology (Chapter 4). This introduction of new material (with appropriate text figures) has been achieved without substantial increase in size of the volume by deleting (somewhat regretfully) certain sections which seemed less central to our main themes. We have again benefited from the expert help of our editor. Professor A. J. Willis. Leicester and Swansea 1975 H.O.