Flower and fruit

• Verfasst von: Leins, Peter [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Erbar, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Flower and fruit
• Titelzusatz: morphology, ontogeny, phylogeny, function and ecology ; with 3 tables
• Verf.angabe: by Peter Leins and Claudia Erbar
• Verlagsort: Stuttgart
• Verlag: Schweizerbart Textbooks
• Jahr: 2010
• Umfang: 1 online resource (451 pages)
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-3-510-65465-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Blüte / (s)Frucht
• Schlagwörter: (s)Fruchtbildung
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Leins, Peter, 1937 - : Flower and fruit. - Stuttgart : Schweizerbart Science Publ., 2010. - IX, 439 S.
• RVK-Notation: WM 1600
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1766741789

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyrights -- Contents -- Preface -- Beforehand some thoughts on the origin and the important role of the flowers in the life cycle of plants -- Early angiosperm flowers - the fossil Archaefructus -- Short description of an angiosperm flower - some basic terms -- The genetic approach to the floral organ determination - from the A-B-C model to the A-B-C-D-E model -- Differential growth and organ delimination -- Number and arrangement of floral organs in the flowers -- Spiral flowers with high and indefinite organ number -- Transition to whorled (cyclic) flowers -- Whorled (cyclic) flowers -- Floral symmetry -- The perianth -- Perigone, calyx, corolla -- Aestivation -- Epicalyces -- Tubular formations in the perianth - syntepaly, synsepaly, sympetaly -- The androecium -- Ontogeny of an individual stamen -- Deviating anther structures -- The pollen grains -- Stamen fascicles, fascicled androecia -- The cabinet of curiosities -- The staminode concept -- The gynoecium -- Ontogeny of an individual carpel -- The variation of the proportions -- Choricarpy and coenocarpy -- The internal design of coenocarpous gynoecia -- Pollen tube transmitting tissue and compitum -- The ovules -- The floral axis -- Stalk-like elongations of the axis (floral internodes) -- Cup-shaped formations (floral cups and floral tubes) -- Hypanthial ovaries with unusual internal designs -- The inferior ovary in the cucumber family -- Unusual placentations in connection with intercalary growth processes in the floral axis -- Nectaries -- Different sites of floral nectaries -- Nectary organs -- Extrafloral nectaries -- Floral diagrams -- Inflorescences -- Important flower functions and the relevant adaptations -- The problem of hermaphroditism in flowers or: how to prevent inbreeding -- Dichogamy -- Herkogamy -- Separation of sexes (dicliny) -- Heterostyly.