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  title info:
    title: Farewell to the Internal Clock
    sub title: A contribution in the field of chronobiology
  name:
    name part: Klein, Gunter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 116 p. online resource.
  abstract: Nearly everything making up what we call the “environment” of a plant has an infuence on the way it grows. Sunlight, te- perature, moisture contents of soil and atmosphere and vib- tions are all obvious examples of environmental components, and transient variations in their amount or intensity lead the plant to manifest more or less immediate responses. Small changes in carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere can even have effects, but these take a longer time to be registered – at least those that are visible, albeit at the microscopic level. Plants meet the challenges of the environment by means of acclimation. In this respect, plants are notable for the pl- ticity of their development. However, where morphological or physiological plasticity is no longer an option, the responses would be by means of adaptations as a result of genetic - lection or genetic “assimilation” (Waddington 1957). Thus, a feature that was once a facultative transient response to an environmental perturbation becomes a constitutive charac- ristic of plant structure or function. It is in this way that the environment continually molds the way in which plants de- lop, and also defnes the areas upon planet Earth where they will thrive.
  table of contents: In the beginning was the leaf -- Chronobiology today -- The Moon and chronobiology -- Location and mode of operation of the “internal clock” -- The mistake concerning the “internal clock” of the bean -- Does the “lunar clock” also tick for animals and human beings?.
  note: by Gunter Klein.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cell biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Cell Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine general
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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      title: Springer eBooks
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