Overview
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B. E. S. Gunning
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Research School of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Developmental Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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A. W. Robards
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Dept. of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- A. W. Robards, D. T. Clarkson
Pages 181-201
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- C. B. Osmond, F. A. Smith
Pages 229-241
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- B. E. S. Gunning, A. W. Robards
Pages 297-311
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Back Matter
Pages 313-390
About this book
This Volume attempts to summarise and integrate a field of study in its entirety: the nature of plasmodesmata, and the part these interยญ cellular connections play in the life of the plant. Except in the allยญ embracing early reviews of the pre-electron microscope era, there has been a tendency for the subject to be approached from disparate points of view: plant physiologists, developmental biologists, biophysicists, virologists and cytologists all contributing to the corpus of knowledge, but often without a full appreciation of each others' goals and problยญ ems, and sometimes misinterpreting each others' findings. In June 1975 a group of about 40 specialists in these various disciplines, all with a common interest in intercellular communication in plants, met for two days, presented papers, talked, argued, and in general pooled their knowยญ ledge. Out of a synthesis of manuscripts and discussions there has emerged, by an editorial process of elimination of unnecessary dupliยญ cation and insertions to ensure completeness of coverage, the present book - not so much a straight record of a conference, as a Monograph based on the proceedings. All of the Chapters are reviews and most include hitherto unpublished data or theoretical treatments.
Editors and Affiliations
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Research School of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Developmental Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
B. E. S. Gunning
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Dept. of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
A. W. Robards