Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wojtaszek, Przemyslaw (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Edition: First.
• Series: Signaling and Communication in Plants, 9
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Ecology.

Chemical reactions and interactions between molecules are commonly considered the basis of life, and thus the biochemical nature of cells and organisms is relatively well recognized. Research conducted in recent years, however, increasingly indicates that physical forces profoundly affect the functi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Tensegral World of Plants
• Micromechanics of Cell Walls
• Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton
• Intracellular Movement. Integration at the Cellular Level as Reflected in the Organization of Organelle Movements
• Generating a Cellular Protuberance. Mechanics of Tip Growth
• Mechanics of the Meristems
• Mechanical Force Responses of Plant Cells and Plants
• Mechanical Aspects of Gravity-Controlled Growth, Development and Morphogenesis
• Osmosensing
• Plants as Mechano-Osmotic Transducers
• Integrative Mechanobiology of Growth and Architectural Development in Fluctuating Mechanical Environments
• Hydraulics of Vascular Water Transport
• MicroRNAs and Mechanical Stress.