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Rhythms in Plants

Stefano Mancuso , Sergey Shabala

This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update on recent advances in this field...

Measuring Roots

Stefano Mancuso

Roots represent half of the plant body – and arguably the more interesting half. Despite its obvious importance for the whole plant, until recently our knowledge of the root apparatus was very limited, mostly due to the inadequacy of the techniques available. Recent...

Waterlogging Signalling and Tolerance in Plants

Stefano Mancuso , Sergey Shabala

In the last half century, because of the raising world population and because of the many environmental issues posed by the industrialization, the amount of arable land per person has declined from 0.32 ha in 1961–1963 to 0.21 ha in 1997–1999 and is expected to drop...

Signaling in Plants

František Baluška , Stefano Mancuso

Rhythms in Plants

Stefano Mancuso , Sergey Shabala

Rhythmic behaviour is quintessential to life itself. Advances in plant molecular biology, micro/nanotechnology and applied mathematics provide new tools for understanding how environmental signals and internal clocks regulate rhythmic gene expression and development,...

Communication in Plants

František Baluška , Stefano Mancuso , Dieter Volkmann

Plant neurobiology is a newly emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization – from molecules up to ecological communities. In this book, plants are presented as intelligent and social organisms...