The Physiology of Flowering Plants - KHAM PHA MOI

176 GROWTH AS A QUANTITATIVE PROCESSindividual plants periods of high and low growth activity alternate,each lasting some months. Perennials seem to have an innate tendencyfor an alternation of growth and rest periods. In tropicalclimates where the environment does not exercise a synchronizinginfluence, each plant – sometimes even a branch of a plant – growsaccording to its own internal rhythm.Complementary readingBell, A. D. Plant Form: an Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1991.Burdon, J. J. & Harper, J. L. Relative growth rates of individual members of aplant population. Journal of Ecology, 68 (1980), 953–7.Caré, A,-F., Nefed’ev, L., Bonnet, B., Millet, B. & Badot, P.-M. Cell elongationand revolving movement in Phaseolus vulgaris L. twining shoots. Plant and CellPhysiology, 39 (1998), 914–21.Groeneveld, H. W., Bergkotte, M. & Lambers, H. Leaf growth in the fast-growingHolcus lanatus and the slow-growing Deschampsia flexuosa: tissue maturation.Journal of Experimental Botany, 49 (1998), 1509–17.Hunt, R. Basic Growth Analysis. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990Hunt, R. & Lloyd, P. S. Growth and partitioning. New Phytologist, 106 (1987),Suppl. 1, 235–49.Morey, P. R. How Trees Grow. Studies in Biology, 39. London: Edward Arnold,1973.Scheurwater, I., Cornelissen, C., Dictus, F., Welschen, R. & Lambers, H. Whydo fast- and slow-growing grass species differ so little in their rate of rootrespiration, considering the large differences in rate of growth and ionuptake? Plant, Cell and Environment, 21 (1998), 995–1005.Thomas, H., Thomas, H. M. & Ougham, H. Annuality, perenniality andcell death. Journal of Experimental Botany, 51 (2000), 1781–8.Whaley, W. G. Growth as a general process. In Encyclopaedia of Plant Physiology,vol. 14, ed. W. Ruhland. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1961, pp. 71–112.ReferencesBünning, E. (1953). Entwicklungs- und Bewegungsphysiologie der Pflanze. Berlin:Springer.Gregory, F. G. (1921). Studies in the energy relations of plants. I. The increasein area of leaves and leaf surface of Cucumis sativus. Annals of Botany, 35,93–123.Hunt, R. & Cornelissen, J. H. C. (1997). Components of relative growth rate andtheir interrelations in 59 plant species. New Phytologist, 135, 395–417.Pearsall, W. H. (1927). Growth studies VI. On the relative sizes of growingplant organs. Annals of Botany, 41, 549–56.Pfeffer, W. (1903). The Physiology of Plants, Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Schmundt, D., Stitt, M., Jähne, B. & Schurr, U. (1998). Quantitative analysis ofthe local rates of growth of dicot leaves at a high temporal and spatialresolution, using image sequence analysis. The Plant Journal, 16, 505–14.Stiles, W. (1950). An Introduction to the Principles of Plant Physiology. London:Methuen.