Progress in Botany: Structural Botany Physiology Genetics Taxonomy Geobotany/Fortschritte der Botanik Struktur Physiologie Genetik Systematik Geobotanik (Progress in Botany, 56)

With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of botany. The present volume includes reviews on structural botany, plant physiology, genetics, taxonomy, and geobotany. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Stable Isotopes in Plant Physiology and Ecology....Pages 1-24 Cytology and Morphogenesis of the Prokaryotic Cell....Pages 25-32 Cytology and Morphogenesis of Pollen and Spores....Pages 33-55 Plant Water Relations....Pages 56-96 Humic Substances and Plant Nutrition....Pages 97-117 Selected Topics of Polyketide Biosynthesis....Pages 118-133 Photosynthesis....Pages 134-164 Plant Stress. The Adaptive Potential of Dynamic Systems....Pages 165-200 Phytochrome....Pages 201-235 Movement of Pulvinated Leaves....Pages 236-262 Replication: The Role of Escherichia coli Heat Shock Proteins in DNA Replication....Pages 263-274 Recombination: Sexual Reproduction in Plants: Self-Incompatibility as a Mechanism Promoting Outbreeding and Gene Flow....Pages 275-300 Mutation: Modified Starch Metabolism in Mutant and Transgenic Plants....Pages 301-318 Function: Histones in Higher Plants....Pages 319-331 Extrachromosomal Inheritance: Yeast Linear Killer Plasmids as a Tool in Genetic Engineering....Pages 332-353 Systematics of the Bryophytes....Pages 354-371 Paleobotany of Land Plants....Pages 372-395 Plant Geography....Pages 396-415 Salt Resistance in Herbaceous Halophytes and Mangroves....Pages 416-429 Mycorrhizae: Ectomycorrhiza and Ectendomycorrhiza....Pages 430-456 Symbioses: Mycorrhizae....Pages 457-471 Back Matter....Pages 473-490 With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.