From toby@castle.ed.ac.uk Mon Oct 24 17:55:54 EDT 1994
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From: toby@castle.ed.ac.uk (R T Tyrrell)
Subject: Re: how do plants...
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Evan Cooch (cooch@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
: In a slight twist on follow-up to my early simplistic query about timing of 
: reproduction in plants, the following:

:  how do plants "tell time"? I.E., what are the physical/biocehmical 
: mechanisms by which a plant determines "what time" it is? 

: There is a ton of literature on this in vertebrates (especially birds). I was 
: owndering what the equivalent story is for plants. Again, I'm simply looking 
: for a few pointers to references, not pointers on how overly simplistic this 
: question is (the simplicity of it I deduce for myself from reading the papers, 
: obviously!). :-)

Try reading "Life Processes of Plants" by AW(?) Galston, 1994, Sci. American
Press.  There's a whole chapter on this.

regards,

Toby Tyrrell
Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Prospect Place,
Plymouth PL1 3DU.

tt@pml.ac.uk



