Front Matter; Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects; The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis; Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise?; Nutation in Plants; Oscillations in Plant Transpiration; Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells; Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment; Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects; How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock
Summary
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, and how these signals are translated into physiological responses at various levels of structural organisation. This book reviews recent progress in assessing underlying mechanisms controlling plant circadian and ultradian oscillations, and their physiological implications for growth, development, and adaptive responses to the env
