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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Life Movements in Plants, Volume I
Jagadis Chandra Bose
217 pages~4 hr 20 min read152 chapters$4.99
A palm tree in Bengal seemed to bow at intervals, and Jagadis Bose built instruments to prove that plants truly move. Volume one records his crescograph experiments, showing periodic motion, tree pulses, and the excitability hidden in green tissue. Startling, meticulous plant physiology. Watch a scientist catch a tree in the act of stirring.
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Inside this book
152 chapters
- 1LIFE MOVEMENTS IN PLANTS
- 2CONTENTS
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4PART I. RESPONSE OF PLANT ORGANS.
- 5I.—THE PROBLEM OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS
- 6II.—THE “PRAYING” PALM TREE
- 7THE RECORDING APPARATUS.
- 8UNIVERSALITY OF TREE MOVEMENT.
- 9THE CAUSE OF PERIODIC MOVEMENT.
- 10PERIODIC MOVEMENT OF TREES AND DIURNAL VARIATION OF MOTO-EXCITABILITY IN MIMOSA PUDICA.
- 11RELATIVE EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE.
- 12PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE MOVEMENT.
- 13TRANSPIRATION AND DIURNAL MOVEMENT.
- 14EFFECT OF VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE ON GEOTROPIC CURVATURE.
- 15REVERSAL OF NATURAL RHYTHM.
- 16SUMMARY.
- 17III.—ACTION OF STIMULUS ON VEGETABLE TISSUES
- 18RESPONSE RECORDERS.
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