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Re: how do plants...
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Subject: Re: how do plants...
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From: toby@castle.ed.ac.uk (R T Tyrrell)
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 08:38:40 GMT
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Article: 6600 of sci.bio.ecology
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Newsgroups: sci.bio.ecology
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Organization: Edinburgh University
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Evan Cooch (cooch@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
: In a slight twist on follow-up to my early simplistic query about timing of
: reproduction in plants, the following:
: how do plants "tell time"? I.E., what are the physical/biocehmical
: mechanisms by which a plant determines "what time" it is?
: There is a ton of literature on this in vertebrates (especially birds). I was
: owndering what the equivalent story is for plants. Again, I'm simply looking
: for a few pointers to references, not pointers on how overly simplistic this
: question is (the simplicity of it I deduce for myself from reading the papers,
: obviously!). :-)
Try reading "Life Processes of Plants" by AW(?) Galston, 1994, Sci. American
Press. There's a whole chapter on this.
regards,
Toby Tyrrell
Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Prospect Place,
Plymouth PL1 3DU.
tt@pml.ac.uk
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