An introduction to vegetable physiology / by J. Reynolds Green.

  • Joseph Reynolds Green
Date:
1907
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Credit: An introduction to vegetable physiology / by J. Reynolds Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF PLANTS PAGE Unicellular plants; zoogonidia, yeasts, bacteria; multicellular plants; the protoplast, its structure and arrangements; characters of protoplasm; nuclei and nucleoli; association of protoplasts in colonies; slime fungi; ccenocytes ; arrangements in multicellular plants—Needs of protoplasm; its relation to water; formation of vacuoles ; relation of water to the plant in general; the aeration of protoplasm—Connection of protoplasts with one another in the body of the plant .......... 1-16 CHAPTER II THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE PLANT BODY Division of labour the.clue to differentiation of structure—Formation of protective tissues: epidermis, cuticle, periderm, bark—System of conducting tissues; vascular bundles and their distribution- strengthening tissues: collenchyma and sclerenchyma; the different arrangements of them which are met with—The stereome of the plant—The metabolic tissues—The arrangements for the aeration of the interior ; stomata, lenticels 17-35 CHAPTER III THE SKELETON OF THE PLANT Necessity of a skeleton to support the protoplasts; varieties of the skeleton Development of the skeleton as the plant grows—Charac- ters of the cell-wall; cellulose, its properties and reactions; pectose and related substances—Arrangement of the solid matter and the water of the cell-wall; hypotheses of Naegeli and Stras- buiger Differentiation of the substance of thickened cell-walls;
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