Life Movements in Plants, Volume IIBose, Jagadis Chandra
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Life Movements in Plants, Volume II
Bose, Jagadis Chandra
Growth (Plants); Plants -- Irritability and movements
Turgor variation under transverse transmission of
stimulus-effect--Tropic responses of pulvinated and growing
organs to unilateral stimulation--Direct unilateral
stimulation--Indirect unilateral stimulation--Difference of
effects induced by Direct and Indirect stimulation--Laws of
tropic curvature 279
XXVI.--MECHANOTROPISM: TWINING OF TENDRILS.
Anomalies of mechanotropism--Effects of indirect and direct
electric stimulation on growth of tendril--Effect of direct
and indirect mechanical stimulus--Immediate and after-effect
of stimulus--Inhibitory action of stimulus--Response of
less excitable side of the tendril--Relative intensities
of responses of upper and under sides of tendril of
_Passiflora_--Negative curvature of tendril 288
XXVII.--ON GALVANOTROPISM.
Polar effects of electric current on growth--Effect of anode
and cathode on growth 301
XXVIII.--ON THERMONASTIC PHENOMENA.
Effect of temperature--Different thermonastic organs--Two
types of response: Positive and Negative--Effect of rise of
temperature and of stimulus on thermonastic organs--Law of
thermonastic reaction 305
XXIX.--ON PHOTOTROPISM.
Complexity of problem of phototropic reaction--Action of
light--Positive phototropic curvature of pulvinated
organs--Positive phototropic curvature of growing
organs--Phenomenon of recovery--Immediate and after-effect
of light on growth--Latent period of phototropic reaction--
Growth variation induced by flash of light from a single
spark--Maximum positive curvature under continued action of
light 313
XXX.--DIA-PHOTOTROPISM AND NEGATIVE PHOTOTROPISM.
Differential excitability of two halves of pulvinus of
_Mimosa_--Transformation of positive to negative
curvature--Tropic effect under sunlight--Negative
phototropism of shoot and root 328
XXXI.--RELATION BETWEEN THE QUANTITY OF LIGHT AND THE INDUCED
PHOTOTROPIC CURVATURE.
Effect of increasing intensity of light on pulvinated and
growing organs--Effect of increasing angle--Effect of
duration of exposure 338
XXXII.--THE PHOTOTROPIC CURVE AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
Summation of stimulus--General consideration--The general
characteristic curve--Characteristics of simple phototropic
curve--Variation of susceptibility for excitation in
different parts of the curve--Effect of sub-minimal
stimulus--The complete phototropic curves of pulvinated
and growing organs--Limitation of Weber's law 346
XXXIII.--TRANSMITTED EFFECT OF PHOTIC STIMULATION.
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