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The Plant Life-cycle and the Environment

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Plant Structure, Function and Adaptation
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In this book the relations between structure and function have been considered at various levels of organisation, starting at the molecular level and proceeding to organelles such as chloroplasts, and later to tissues and organs. We now have to consider the relationship between form and function in the plant as a whole.

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  • C. Raunkier, The Life Form of Plants (Clarendon, Oxford, 1934).

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  • H. Smith, Phytochrome and Photomorphogenesis (McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead, 1975).

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  • D. Vince-Prue, Photoperiodism (McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead, 1975).

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  • P. F. Wareing and I. D. J. Phillips, The Control of Growth and Differentiation in Plants (Pergamon, Oxford, 1970).

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Wareing, P.F. (1976). The Plant Life-cycle and the Environment. In: Hall, M.A. (eds) Plant Structure, Function and Adaptation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06571-4_10

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