Conifer Reproductive Biology

• Main Author: Williams, Claire G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Forestry.; Trees.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Sciences.; Tree Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Terrestial Ecology.

This compendium on conifer reproductive biology is intended as a text supplement for plant biology courses. Such a volume seems timely because knowledge of model flowering plants is expanding so fast that each new plant biology text has less written on conifers than the last. Conifer Reproductive Bi...

Table of Contents:

• Conifer Reproductive Biology Overview
• Introducing Conifers
• The Diplohaplontic Life Cycle
• Consequences of Heterospory
• Separate Female and Male Meioses
• The Female Gametophyte Inside the Ovule
• The Male Gametophyte Enclosed in a Pollen Wall
• Pollination and Fertilization
• Syngamy, Embryo Development and Seed Dispersal
• Mating System Dynamics: Form Versus Chance
• The Dynamic Wind-Pollinated Mating System
• The Embryo Lethal System.