The Alternative Growth and Defense: Resource Allocation at Multiple Scales in Plants
The Alternative Growth and Defense: Resource Allocation at Multiple Scales in Plants
Articles of an international symposium take on the conflict of balancing different eco-physiological requirements of plants in the process sequence of resource allocation. Focus is on the trade-off between growth and stress defence with respective cost/benefit assessments. Growth is the precondition to ensuring competitive resource acquisition, and defence is the precondition to retaining these resources for the plant after incorporation.
Recognizing the plant’s intensive exchange of resources with its abiotic and biotic environment, this integrated approach requires spatial and temporal process scaling. This is tested with regard to both the mechanistic and ecologically relevant clarification potential. The analysis of the process integration of the functional and structural plant and ecosystem-inherent biological organization levels (scales) is identified as the precondition for spatial and temporal pattern disclosure during the allocation sequence. These articles thereby achieve a new quality in a comprehensive, process-based, integrative understanding of “system biology”.
" ... liefert insbesondere für Wissenschaftler (sowie fortgeschrittene Studenten), die sich speziell für die Bereiche Pflanzenzüchtung, Pflanzenbau und Pflenzenernährung interessieren, zahlreiche neue Denkanstöße."
Dr. H. Schulz, Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality Vol. 86, Seite 221, (2013)
Rainer Matyssek
Ulrich Lüttge
Heinz Rennenberg
| Volume | 114.391 |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-3-8047-3057-1 |
| Media type | Book - Paperback |
| Edition number | 1. |
| Copyright year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart |
| Length | 369 pages |
| Illustrations | 53 b/w figs., 39 col. figs., 19 b/w tables |
| Size | 17.0 x 24.0 cm |
| Language | English |
