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
Effect of light applied on tip of Setaria--Response of
growing region to unilateral stimulus--Effect of
simultaneous stimulation of the tip and the hypocotyl--
Algebraical summation of effects of direct and indirect
stimuli 362
XXXIV.--ON PHOTONASTIC CURVATURES.
Phototropic response of anisotropic organs--Positive
para-heliotropism--Negative para-heliotropism--Responses
of pulvinated and growing organs to light 378
XXXV.--EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON PHOTOTROPIC CURVATURE.
Effect of temperature on excitability--Effect of temperature
on conduction--Phototropic response of tendrils--Seasonal
variation of phototropic curvature--Antagonistic effects of
light and of rise of temperature 388
XXXVI.--ON PHOTOTROPIC TORSION.
Torsional response to light--Effect of different modes of
lateral stimulation--Effect of differential excitability on
the direction of torsion--Laws of torsional response--
Complex torsion under light--Advantages of the Method of
Torsional Response--The Torsional Balance--Determination
of the direction of stimulus 397
XXXVII.--RADIO-THERMOTROPISM.
Effect of infra-red radiation--Positive radio-thermotropism--
Dia-radio-thermotropism--Negative radio-thermotropism 410
XXXVIII.--RESPONSE OF PLANTS TO WIRELESS STIMULATION.
Effects of different rays of spectrum on growth--The wireless
system--Mechanical and electrical responses of _Mimosa_ to
Hertzian waves--Effect of wireless stimulation on growth of
plants 416
XXXIX.--GEOTROPISM.
Direction of the stimulus of gravity--The Geotropic
Recorder--Determination of the character of geotropic
reaction--Theory of statoliths--Determination of the latent
period--The complete geotropic curve--Determination of
effective direction of stimulus of gravity--Algebraical
summation of effects of geotropic and photic stimulus--
Analogy between the effects of stimulus of light and of
gravity--Relation between the directive angle and geotropic
reaction--Differential geotropic excitability 425
XL.--GEO-ELECTRIC RESPONSE OF SHOOT.
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