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| Other authors / contributors: | McManus, Michael T.
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| ISBN: | 0511115857
9780511115851
0511122136
9780511122132
051154622X
9780511546228
0521330769
9780521330763
1280153075
9781280153075
0521330769
9780521177450
0521177456
9780521330763
0521330769
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-248) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to chemical signals both from neighbouring cells and distant tissues. It is these responses that shape the plant, its time of flowering, the sex of its flowers, its length of survival or progress to senescence and death. How do plants achieve this? This up-to-date treatise addresses this question using well-chosen examples to illustrate the concept of target cells. The authors discuss how each cell has the ability to discriminate between different chemical signals, determining which it will respond to and which it will ignore. The regulation of gene expression through signal perception and signal transduction is at the core of this selectivity and the Target Cell concept. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for all researchers working in the field of plant developmental biology.
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| Other form: | Print version: Osborne, Daphne J., 1930- Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521330769
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| Standard no.: | 9780521330763
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