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What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How often should it reproduce them? How often should a plant produce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed, and what are the implications for the diversity and composition of vegetation? These are just some of the questions tackled in this wide-ranging review of the role of seeds in the ecology of plants. The authors bring together information on the ecological aspects of seed biology, starting with a consideration of reproductive strategies in seed plants and progressing through the life cycle, covering seed maturation, dispersal, storage in the soil, dormancy, germination, seedling establishment, and regeneration in the field. The text encompasses a wide range of concepts of general relevance to plant ecology, reflecting the central role that the study of seed ecology has played in elucidating many fundamental aspects of plant community function.

Seeds --- Plants --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Seed ecology --- Ecology. --- Reproduction. --- Seeds - Ecology --- Plants - Reproduction

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Plants --- Plant breeding --- Plant genetics --- Plant breeding. --- Plant genetics. --- Reproduction --- Reproduction. --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Crops --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Genetics --- Breeding --- Plant physiology --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Agriculture --- Organisms --- Botany

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In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women's engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women's writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women's writing - the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women's writing, or the relationship between literature and science.

Plants, Sex in --- Women botanists --- Botany in literature --- Botanical literature --- Biological literature --- Botany --- Botanists --- Women biologists --- Women in botany --- Sex in plants --- Plant physiology --- Sex (Biology) --- Plants --- History --- Women authors --- Reproduction --- Linne, Carl von, --- Influence. --- Linné, Carl von, --- Linnaeus, Carl, --- Linneĭ, Karl, --- Linnaeus, Carolus, --- Von Linné, Carl, --- Linnaeus, C., --- Linneus, --- Linné, Carolus a, --- Linné, Charles, --- Lineu, Carlos, --- Plants, Sex in. --- Literature --- Literary Theory --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh` --- Ireland --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- British women's engagement. --- Carl Linnaeus. --- Collinsonia. --- Erasmus Darwin. --- Linnaean Sexual System. --- Linnaean classification. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- botanical classification. --- botanical literature. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- female mind. --- female modesty. --- floristry. --- plant sexuality. --- sexual anxiety.

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The first part of the book presents the evolution of plants starting from photosynthetic cells to topics like Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, including the evolution of the breeding system. Geological and molecular data were used, helping us to show with more details each of the phases presented.  Also, specialization of the reproductive systems such as evolution of unissexuality (dioecy and monoecy), evolution of self-incompatibility, selfing fertilization and mixed mating systems were considered.   The last part discusses the biology and genetics of the reproductive systems and shows the strategies that modern plants use in asexual reproduction (vegetative and apomictic reproduction) and sexual reproduction. In addition, the sexual reproduction topics such as   gametogenesis, the genetic control of reproductive organs, systems that promote outcrossing, selfing and mixed mating systems were also included.  .

Plant Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plants --- Plant genetics. --- Reproduction. --- Evolution. --- Plant evolution --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Genetics --- Life sciences. --- Cytogenetics. --- Plant physiology. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Evolution (Biology) --- Phylogeny --- Human genetics. --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Botany --- Physiology --- Crops --- Breeding --- Cytology

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Darwin identified the existence of separate male and female gametes as one of the central mysteries of evolutionary biology. 150 years later, the question of why male gametes exist remains an intriguing puzzle. In this, the first book solely devoted to the evolution of anisogamy, top theorists in the field explore why gamete dimorphism characterizes nearly all plants and animals. Did separate male and female gametes evolve as a result of competition, or does anisogamy instead represent selection for cooperation? If disruptive selection drove the evolution of anisogamy, with male gametes focused on search and fusion, and female gametes provisioning the new zygote, why do some algal species continue to produce gametes of a single size? Does sperm limitation, or escape from infection, better explain the need for extremely small, highly mobile sperm? Written by leaders in the field, this volume offers an authoritative and cutting-edge overview of evolutionary theory.

Gametes --- Gametogenesis. --- Natural selection. --- Plants --- Reproduction, Asexual. --- Asexual reproduction --- Gemmation (Zoology) --- Spores --- Gemmation (Botany) --- Plant reproduction --- Plant physiology --- Reproduction --- Plants, Sex in --- Plant spores --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Evolution (Biology) --- Heredity --- Formation of gametes --- Cell differentiation --- Germ cells --- Evolution. --- Reproduction. --- Formation