Nectaries and Nectar
Contributor(s): Nicolson, Susan W [editor.] | Nepi, Massimo [editor.] | Pacini, Ettore [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.Description: XVIII, 396 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781402059377.Subject(s): Life sciences | Ecology | Evolutionary biology | Plant science | Botany | Entomology | Life Sciences | Plant Sciences | Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | EntomologyDDC classification: 580 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | Available | EBK4080 |
A systematic survey of floral nectaries -- Nectary structure and ultrastructure -- Nectar production and presentation -- Nectar chemistry -- Molecular biology of the Nicotiana floral nectary -- Nectar consumers -- Ecological and evolutionary aspects of floral nectars in Mediterranean habitats.
Nectar is the most important reward offered by plants to pollinating animals. This book is a modern and interdisciplinary text on nectar and nectaries, prompted by the expansion of knowledge, especially in the more ecological and now molecular fields, and the strong recent interest in pollination biology. The topics covered vary widely: they include historical aspects, the structure and ultrastructure of nectaries and relationships to plant systematics, the dynamics of nectar secretion, nectar chemistry and the molecular biology of defence proteins, adaptations to insect and vertebrate nectar consumers and consequences for pollination ecology, and broad-scale studies of nectar resources at the community level.
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