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Relations of metabolism to cell development in plants

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Differenzierung und Entwicklung / Differentiation and Development

Part of the book series: Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie / Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((532,volume 15))

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In addition to the “classical” approaches to the problem of morphogenesis, such as descriptive analyses of development, surgical experiments, and studies on the control of development by environmental conditions and by hormonal and other correlative factors, the last years have seen an increasing number of attempts to penetrate the problem with the tools and the experience of modern biochemistry. To name but a few examples, such attempts have been made in the fields of tissue differentiation in shoot and root apices, of flowering and organ abscission in seed plants, of the developmental physiology of the Acrasiates and of Acetabularia, and of the transformation of normal into tumor cells under the influence of the crown-gall organism. However, most of these studies, which will be treated in the appropriate chapters of this volume, may be said (and their authors are the first to concur) to be still basically descriptive in nature—descriptive in that, while they supply new and refined parameters with which to categorize the phenomena, they do not explain these phenomena in a causal manner. There are, however, a few areas where a beginning has been made in relating cell development and cell metabolism in a cause-and-effect fashion, and the purpose of this chapter is to review such cases, as far as they relate to plants.

Paper No. 58–33 from the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

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Cantino, E.C. (1965). Relations of metabolism to cell development in plants. In: Lang, A. (eds) Differenzierung und Entwicklung / Differentiation and Development. Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie / Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50088-6_8

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