Asymmetry in Plants: Biology of Handedness

by Bir Bahadur

Book Overview

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367730596
• ISBN13: 9780367730598
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"