Botany: An Introduction To Plant Biology, Web Enhanced: . ; 9780763707460 ; 0763707465

Mauseth, James D.

ISBN 10: 0763707465 / ISBN 13: 9780763707460

Published by Jones & Bartlett Learning, 1998

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• Title: Botany: An Introduction To Plant Biology, Web Enhanced: . ; 9780763707460 ; 0763707465
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763707465
• ISBN 13: 9780763707460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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James MausethThe University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative BiologyEducation:B.S., University of Washington at Seattle, 1970' 'Ph.D., University of Washington at Seattle, 1975Research:Research in his lab centers on evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure. They use cacti as model organisms because the family contains a great amount of structural/developmental diversity and because the cactus genus Pekeskia retains numerous relictual characters. Plants of Pereskia have hard woody stems and ordinary large leaves. From ancestors like this, morphogenic mechanisms have evolved into ones capable of controlling the differentiation of various types of highly modified wood, unusual types of cortex that have leaf-like features, and apical meristems that minimize the number of mitoses necessary to produce large plants. Because each evolutionary line in the family has undergone particular types of modification of the morphogenic mechanism, they can compare different types of differentiation of a particular tissue, each type controlled by homologous morphogenic mechanisms.