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ISBN-10 :  0192539182 

ISBN-13 :  9780192539182

Author :  Maxine F. Singer 

How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it’s their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flowers, and how do they make the variety of flower shapes, colours, and scents? What kind of instructions does the plant carry? Flowers enrich the beauty of meadows and gardens, but of course, they are not there simply to please us. Biologically, blossoms form a critical aspect of the reproductive cycle of many plants. In this book, the distinguished scientist Maxine Singer explains what we have pieced together about the genetics behind flowering. She describes in a clear and accessible account the key genes which, regulated by other genes, modulated by epigenetic effects, and responding to environmental cues, cause plants to flower at a particular time, and define the variety of flowers. The remarkably intricate processes involved in making flowers have evolved in nature alongside the pollinating birds and insects that the flowers must attract if there is to be another generation. The processes involved in flowering have only been unravelled in the past twenty years, and the implications for ensuring production of food, including fruits and seeds, are profound. This is cutting-edge science, and we have much still to learn, but the story being revealed that lies behind the flowers in our gardens, parks, and fields is proving astonishing.

Blossoms : and the genes that make them 1st Table of contents:

Part I
1. Names
2. Plants are Like Animals, Only Different
3. Sensing the Environment
Part II
4. How Genes Work
5. Switching Genes On and Off
Part III
6. Growing Up Green
7. Warm and Cold
8. Light and Dark
Part IV
9. The Construction Site
10. Special Shapes
Part V
11. Painting the Petals
12. The Perfume Factory
A Final Word
Glossary
Further Reading

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