Conifer Reproductive Biology

• Main Author: Williams, Claire G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Evolution (Biology).; Forests and forestry.; Trees.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Tree Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Terrestial Ecology.; Forestry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9602-0

This compendium on conifer reproductive biology is intended as a text supplement for plant biology courses. Such a volume seems timely because knowledge of model flowering plants is expanding so fast that each new plant biology text has less written on conifers than the last. Conifer Reproductive Bi...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue. Glossary
• Section I. Conifer Reproductive Biology Overview. 1. Introducing Conifers. 2. The Diplohaplontic Life Cycle
• Section II. Consequences of Heterospory. 3. Separate Female and Male Meioses. 4. The Female Gametophyte Inside in the Ovule.-5. The Male Gametophyte Enclosed in a Pollen Wall. 6. Synchrony: Pollination and Fertilization. 7. Syngamy, Embryo Development and Seed Dispersal
• Section III. Mating System Dynamics: Form and Chance. 8. The Dynamic Wind-Pollinated Mating System. 9. The Embryo Lethal System
• Index.