Tài liệu BOTANY - Edited by John Kiogora Mworia

Contents
Part 1 Adaptations and Responses to
Environmental Extremes 1
Chapter 1 Flooding Stress on Plants: Anatomical,
Morphological and Physiological Responses 3
Gustavo Gabriel Striker
Chapter 2 Drought and Desiccation-Tolerance
and Sensitivity in Plants 29
Tobias M. Ntuli
Chapter 3 Review on Some Emerging Endpoints of
Chromium (VI) and Lead Phytotoxicity 61
Conceição Santos and Eleazar Rodriguez


Part 2 Economic Botany 83
Chapter 4 Physico-Chemical, Biochemical and Microbiological
Phenomena of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Extract Used in the Preparation of Tassabount
Date Juice in Morocco 85
Hasnaâ Harrak, Marc Lebrun, Moulay Mustapha Ismaïli Alaoui,
Samira Sarter and Allal Hamouda
Chapter 5 A Mini-Review on Smut Disease of Sugarcane
Caused by Sporisorium scitamineum 107
A. Ramesh Sundar, E. Leonard Barnabas,
P. Malathi and R. Viswanathan


Part 3 Morphogenesis and Genetics 129
Chapter 6 The Secretory Glands of
Asphodelus aestivus Flower 131
Thomas Sawidis
Chapter 7 Ardisia crenata Complex (Primulaceae) Studies
Using Morphological and Molecular Data 163
Wang Jun and Xia Nian-He
Chapter 8 Microsporogenesis, Pollen Mitosis
and In Vitro Pollen Tube Growth in
Leucojum aestivum (Amaryllidaceae) 173
Nuran Ekici and Feruzan Dane
Chapter 9 Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nicotiana 191
Takahiro Tezuka
Chapter 10 Plant Special Cell – Cotton Fiber 211
Ling Fan, Wen-Ran Hu, Yang Yang and Bo Li


Preface
This book addresses a wide array of issues in botany through a series of chapters. The
chapters have been contributed by leading botanists from South America, Africa,
Europe and Asia, and provide an overview of recent advances and in-depth reviews of
selected topics in the wide discipline of botany. Topics covered in this book will be
useful to senior level undergraduates, graduates and researchers in various fields of
botany. The contributions fall in the broad areas of plant responses to extreme
environmental conditions which are becoming increasingly frequent given effects of
climate change and pollution; aspects related to the commercial exploitation in
agriculture and medicine; finally the advances and reviews in the important field of
plant morphogenesis and genetics. The process of creating this book was intense and
time consuming, and I would like to extend special thanks to Ana Skalamera for her
tireless effort and dedication at all stages of preparation.
Dr. John Kiogora Mworia,
School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi,
Kenya