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Correlations in plant development: general and basic aspects

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Differentiation and Development / Differenzierung und Entwicklung

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It is evident that definite relationships must exist between the individual processes occurring in a developing organism, but few attempts have been made to develop a general theoretical treatment of these relationships, and even the word “correlation” has been used in quite opposite senses. Some authors apply the term to almost any relationship between two features of a plant, while others reserve it for cases in which they suppose some special physiological mechanism to exist, a system which is concerned to keep the various parts of the plant in step and which is resistant to external interference. The two usages are quite incompatible. For consider the relationship between the shoot and root of a plant. There is pretty general agreement that if the supply of minerals is mildly deficient the roots will take what they need, so that the deficiency will have a disproportionately harmful effect upon the shoot. Conversely if photosynthesis is hindered it is the root system which will show the greatest effect. These phenomena have been discussed as examples of “correlation”. But anybody who thinks of a correlation as the work of a special regulating mechanism must argue that if the shoot/root ratio can be so easily altered by changing the conditions, then there is a very conspicuous lack of correlation.

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  1. Department of Botany, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain

    Allan Allsopp Ph.S., D.Sc. (Senior Lecturer in Cryptogamic Botany) & K. J. Dormer (Dr.) (Senior Lecturer in Cryptogamic Botany) &  (Dr.)

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    Martin Bopp (Dr., o. Professor der Botanik) (Dr., o. Professor der Botanik)

  5. Laboratoire de Morphologie animale, Université libre, 1850 Chaussée de Wavre, Bruxelles, Belgique

    Jean Brachet (Dr., Professor) (Dr., Professor)

  6. Department of Botany, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Great Britain

    Robert Brown (Dr., Professor) & John Kenneth Heyes (Dr.) (Dr., Professor) &  (Dr.)

  7. Botanisches Institut, Universität, 74 Tübingen, Deutschland

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  8. Laboratoire de Botanique, École Normale supérieure, 24, Rue Lhomond, Paris-Ve, France

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  9. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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  12. Federal Experiment Station, Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA

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  13. Botanisches Institut, Universität Frankfurt, Siesmayerstr. 70, 6 Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland

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Dormer, K.J. (1965). Correlations in plant development: general and basic aspects. In: Allsopp, A., et al. Differentiation and Development / Differenzierung und Entwicklung. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology / Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-36273-0_16

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