Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development /

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Author / Creator:	Osborne, Daphne J., 1930-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Developmental and cell biology series ; 41 Developmental and cell biology series ; 41.
Subject:	Plant hormones. Plant cellular signal transduction. Plants -- Development. Plant cellular signal transduction. Plant hormones. Plants -- Development.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11811821

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Other authors / contributors:	McManus, Michael T.
ISBN:	0511115857 9780511115851 0511122136 9780511122132 051154622X 9780511546228 0521330769 9780521330763 1280153075 9781280153075 0521330769 9780521177450 0521177456 9780521330763 0521330769
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-248) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Osborne, Daphne J., 1930- Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521330769
Standard no.:	9780521330763

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Hormones and signals
3. Cell-to-cell signalling - long distance and short distance
4. Population diversity of cell types and target identification in higher plants
5. Flexibility of cell types and the target cell status
6. Terminally committed cell types and the target status
7. The mechanisms of target cell perception and response to specific signals
8. Hormone action and the relief of repression
9. The phenomenon of hormonal crosstalk
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Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development /

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