Reproductive Biology of Plants (Quantitative Biology) [Paperback]

Reproductive biology is the basis of species improvement and a thorough understanding of this is needed for plant improvement, whether by conventional or biotechnological methods. This book presents an up to date and comprehensive description of reproduction in lower plants, gymnosperms and higher plants, It covers general plant biology, pollination, pollen-pistil interaction, post-fertilization changes, and seed dormancy.

This book aims to set the record straight by placing the wealth of data that have been collected on plants into the unifying framework of game theory.

This allows a test of the theory of natural selection in some cases, while in other cases highlighting the need from additional data collection and theoretical  development. It is the author’s hope that many student will take on this challenge and help the study of the reproductive biology of plants to develop as a mature, predictive science.

1.     INTRODUCTION

2.     THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEED SIZE AND ITS RELATION TO HABITAT CONDITONS

3.     THE VIABILITY OF SEEDS FROM PLANTS OF DIVERSE VIGOUR

4.     METHODS AND TERMINOLOGY

5.     THE INFLUENCE OF SOL AND CLIMATEOF SEED OUTPUT

6.     THE INFLUENCE OF COMPETITION ON REPRODUCTION

7.     THE RELATION BETWEEN SEED NUMBER PER CAPSULE AND NUMBER OF CAPSULES PER PLANT

8.     THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEED OUTPUT AND REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY

9.     REPRODUCTION BY SEEDS IN RELATINO TO LIFE SPAN

10.   THE SEED PRODUCTION OF PARASITES, SAPROPHYTES

11.   THE REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS

12.   REPRODUCTION N IN THE GENUS HYPERICUM (ST JOHN’S WORTS)

13.   REPRODUCTION IN THE GENTIANACEAE

14.   THE GENUS LINARIA (TOADFLAX)

15.   THE GENUS VERBASCUM (MULLEINS)

16.   REPRODUCTION IN RELATION TO HABITAT AND CONDITIONS OF COLONIZATION

17.   VEGETATIVE MULTIPLICATION IN RELATION TO COM PETITION

18.   APPENDIX

19.   SUMMARY

20.   BIBLIOGRAPHY

21.   INDEX