Overview
With the advent of transgene technology plant physiology, over the last ten years, has undergone a 'sea-change' and there is a need to 'rewrite'. Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Flowering Plants attempts to provide an uptodate account. The first chapter " Seed Germination and Seedling: Beginning of an Establishment" discuss light and hormonal control of these processes followed by chapters on vegetative and reproductive phases of plants. In "Vegetative Phase" novel concepts such as 'Stem-Cell' and 'Determination of Cell-Fate' besides conceptual changes concerning apical dominance and stomatal opening followed by "Reproductive Phase" where floral evocation, floral stimulus and gene expression during flowering are discussed.
KEY FEATURES:
- Transduction of Signals: Hormonal and Environmental
- Regeneration: Totipotency of Plant Cells
- Extensive treatment of transgene technology and an exhaustive account of the achievements of this technology.