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Micromorphomics: A Morphological Dissection to Unveil Environmental Stress

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Earth environment with all its good and bad effects is maintained and disturbed by the interplay between plants and animals. Plants could be silent indicators of healthy or stressful environment in and around themselves through varied morphological manifestations. Environmental stress may be abiotic or biotic. Morphological manifestations of plant’s response to any kind of stress may be organ specific or integrative. Among different angiospermic plant organs, leaf (source organ) and fruit (sink organ) micromorphological responses to stress are found to be more dramatic and critical. Along with these, other plant organs like stem, root, flower, etc. also manifest micromorphological changes in response to various environmental stresses. They are certainly being the direct outcome of internal mechanistic alterations of plants to combat stressful environment. Understanding of this organ architecture is the first and foremost step towards unveiling the underlying controlling factors.

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  1. Department of Botany, Krishnagar Government College, Nadia, Krishnagar, 741101, West Bengal, India

    Tulika Talukdar Ph.D.

  2. Department of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

    Tulika Talukdar Ph.D.

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Talukdar, T. (2015). Micromorphomics: A Morphological Dissection to Unveil Environmental Stress. In: Barh, D., Khan, M., Davies, E. (eds) PlantOmics: The Omics of Plant Science. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2172-2_21

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