| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 10 |
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| List of Contributors | 16 |
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| Part 1 Physiological Implications of Oscillatory Processes in Plants | 20 |
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| 1 Rhythmic Leaf Movements: Physiological and Molecular Aspects | 21 |
| 2 The Pollen Tube Oscillator: Integrating Biophysics and Biochemistry into Cellular Growth and Morphogenesis | 56 |
| 3 Ultradian Growth Oscillations in Organs: Physiological Signal or Noise? | 80 |
| 4 Nutation in Plants | 94 |
| Part 2 Stomata Oscillations | 108 |
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| 5 Oscillations in Plant Transpiration | 109 |
| 6 Membrane Transport and Ca2+ Oscillations in Guard Cells | 130 |
| 7 Calcium Oscillations in Guard Cell Adaptive Responses to the Environment | 149 |
| 8 Circadian Rhythms in Stomata: Physiological and Molecular Aspects | 170 |
| Part 3 Rhythms, Clocks and Development | 191 |
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| 9 How Plants Identify the Season by Using a Circadian Clock | 192 |
| 10 Rhythmic Stem Extension Growth and Leaf Movements as Markers of Plant Behaviour: the Integral Output from Endogenous and Environmental Signals | 210 |
| 11 Rhythms and Morphogenesis | 229 |
| 12 Molecular Aspects of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock | 254 |
| Part 4 Theoretical Aspects of Rhythmical Plant Behaviour | 274 |
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| 13 Rhythms, Clocks and Deterministic Chaos in Unicellular Organisms | 275 |
| 14 Modelling Ca2+ Oscillations in Plants | 303 |
| 15 Noise-Induced Phenomena and Complex Rhythms: Theoretical Considerations, Modelling and Experimental Evidence | 320 |
| 16 Modeling Oscillations of Membrane Potential Difference | 347 |
| Subject Index | 362 |
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