Life Movements in Plants, by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, Kt., M.A., D.Sc., C.S.I., C.I.E

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Author

Bose, Jagadis Chandra, 1858-1937

Title

Life Movements in Plants, Volume I

Credits

Produced by Bryan Ness, Thiers Halliwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Growth (Plants)

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eBook-No.

48280

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48280

Release Date

February 16, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LIFE MOVEMENTS IN PLANTS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.PART I. RESPONSE OF PLANT ORGANS. — I.—THE PROBLEM OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS — II.—THE “PRAYING” PALM TREE — THE RECORDING APPARATUS. — UNIVERSALITY OF TREE MOVEMENT. — THE CAUSE OF PERIODIC MOVEMENT. — PERIODIC MOVEMENT OF TREES AND DIURNAL VARIATION OF MOTO-EXCITABILITY IN MIMOSA PUDICA . — RELATIVE EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE. — PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE MOVEMENT. — TRANSPIRATION AND DIURNAL MOVEMENT. — EFFECT OF VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE ON GEOTROPIC CURVATURE. — REVERSAL OF NATURAL RHYTHM. — SUMMARY. — III.—ACTION OF STIMULUS ON VEGETABLE TISSUES — RESPONSE RECORDERS. — RESPONSE OF A RADIAL ORGAN. — RESPONSE OF AN ANISOTROPIC ORGAN. — RESPONSE OF THE PULVINUS OF MIMOSA PUDICA . — RESPONSE OF PULVINUS OF MIMOSA TO VARIATION OF TURGOR. — DIFFERENT MODES OF STIMULATION. — SUMMARY. — IV.—DIURNAL VARIATION OF MOTO-EXCITABILITY IN MIMOSA — UNIFORM PERIODIC STIMULATION. — THE RESPONSE RECORDER. — EFFECTS OF EXTERNAL CONDITIONS ON EXCITABILITY. — EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS. — EFFECT OF EXCESSIVE TURGOR. — INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE. — DIURNAL VARIATION OF EXCITABILITY. — EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON VARIATION OF EXCITABILITY. — EFFECT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL INERTIA. — EFFECT OF SEASON. — SUMMARY. — V.—RESPONSE OF PETIOLE-PULVINUS PREPARATION OF MIMOSA PUDICA — EFFECT OF WOUND OR SECTION IN MODIFICATION OF NORMAL EXCITABILITY. — THE CHANGE OF EXCITABILITY AFTER IMMERSION IN WATER. — QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF THE RATE OF DECAY OF EXCITABILITY IN AN ISOLATED PREPARATION. — EFFECT OF AMPUTATION OF UPPER HALF OF PULVINUS. — EFFECT OF REMOVAL OF THE LOWER HALF. — INFLUENCE OF THE WEIGHT OF LEAF ON RAPIDITY OF RESPONSIVE FALL. — ACTION OF CHEMICAL AGENTS. — EFFECT OF “FATIGUE” ON RESPONSE. — THE INFLUENCE OF CONSTANT ELECTRIC CURRENT ON RECOVERY. — ACTION OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS ON EXCITABILITY. — SUMMARY. — VI.—ON CONDUCTION OF EXCITATION IN PLANTS — PREFERENTIAL DIRECTION OF CONDUCTION. — EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE. — EFFECT OF SEASON. — EFFECT OF AGE. — EFFECT OF DESICCATION ON CONDUCTING TISSUES. — INFLUENCE OF TONIC CONDITION ON CONDUCTIVITY. — SUMMARY. — VII.—ON ELECTRIC CONTROL OF EXCITATORY IMPULSE — METHOD OF CONDUCTIVITY BALANCE. — CONTROL OF TRANSMITTED EXCITATION IN AVERRHOA BILIMBI . — ELECTRIC CONTROL OF NERVOUS IMPULSE IN ANIMALS. — EFFECTS OF DIRECTION OF CURRENT ON VELOCITY OF TRANSMISSION. — DETERMINATION OF VARIATION OF CONDUCTIVITY BY METHOD OF MINIMAL STIMULUS AND RESPONSE. — AFTER-EFFECTS OF HOMODROMOUS AND HETERODROMOUS CURRENTS. — VARIATION OF VELOCITY OF TRANSMISSION. — VARIATION OF INTENSITY OF TRANSMITTED EXCITATION UNDER HETERODROMOUS AND HOMODROMOUS CURRENTS. — AFTER-EFFECTS OF HETERODROMOUS AND HOMODROMOUS CURRENTS. — LAWS OF VARIATION OF NERVOUS CONDUCTION UNDER THE ACTION OF ELECTRIC CURRENTS. — SUMMARY. — VIII.—EFFECT OF INDIRECT STIMULUS ON PULVINATED ORGANS — DUAL CHARACTER OF THE TRANSMITTED IMPULSE. — EFFECT OF DISTANCE OF APPLICATION OF STIMULUS. — EFFECTS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT STIMULUS. — IX.—MODIFYING INFLUENCE OF TONIC CONDITION ON RESPONSE — THEORY OF ASSIMILATION AND DISSIMILATION. — UNMASKING OF THE POSITIVE EFFECT. — ARTIFICIAL DEPRESSION OF TONIC CONDITION AND MODIFICATION OF RESPONSE. — POSITIVE RESPONSE IN SUB-TONIC SPECIMEN. — SUMMARY.
5. 5.PART II. GROWTH AND ITS RESPONSIVE VARIATIONS. — X.—THE HIGH MAGNIFICATION CRESCOGRAPH FOR RESEARCHES ON GROWTH [S] — METHOD OF HIGH MAGNIFICATION. — AUTOMATIC RECORD OF THE RATE OF GROWTH. — EXPERIMENTAL ADJUSTMENTS. — DETERMINATION OF LATENT PERIOD AND TIME-RELATIONS OF RESPONSE. — MAGNETIC AMPLIFICATION. — THE DEMONSTRATION CRESCOGRAPH. — SUMMARY. — XI.—EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON GROWTH — METHOD OF DISCONTINUOUS OBSERVATION. — METHOD OF CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION. — DETERMINATION OF THE CARDINAL POINTS OF GROWTH. — THE THERMO-CRESCENT CURVE. — SUMMARY. — XII.—THE EFFECT OF CHEMICAL AGENTS ON GROWTH — EFFECT OF STIMULANTS. — EFFECT OF ANÆSTHETICS. — ACTION OF DIFFERENT GASES. — ACTION OF POISONS. — SUMMARY. — XIII.—EFFECT OF VARIATION OF TURGOR AND OF TENSION ON GROWTH — RESPONSE TO POSITIVE VARIATION OF TURGOR. — EFFECT OF ARTIFICIAL INCREASE OF INTERNAL HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE. — RESPONSE TO NEGATIVE VARIATION OF TURGOR. — RESPONSE OF MOTILE AND GROWING ORGANS TO VARIATION OF TURGOR. — EFFECT OF EXTERNAL TENSION. — SUMMARY. — XIV.—EFFECT OF ELECTRIC STIMULUS ON GROWTH — EFFECT OF ELECTRIC STIMULUS OF VARYING INTENSITY AND DURATION. — CONTINUITY BETWEEN INCIPIENT AND ACTUAL CONTRACTION. — SUMMARY. — XV.—EFFECT OF MECHANICAL STIMULUS ON GROWTH — EFFECT OF MECHANICAL IRRITATION. — EFFECT OF WOUND. — SUMMARY. — XVI.—ACTION OF LIGHT ON GROWTH — METHOD OF EXPERIMENT. — NORMAL EFFECT OF LIGHT. — DETERMINATION OF THE LATENT PERIOD. — EFFECT OF INTENSITY OF LIGHT. — EFFECT OF CONTINUOUS LIGHT. — EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT RAYS OF THE SPECTRUM. — SUMMARY. — XVII.—EFFECT OF INDIRECT STIMULUS ON GROWTH — MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL RESPONSE TO INDIRECT STIMULUS. — VARIATION OF GROWTH UNDER INDIRECT STIMULUS. — SUMMARY. — XVIII.—RESPONSE OF GROWING ORGANS IN STATE OF SUB-TONICITY — ABNORMAL ACCELERATION OF GROWTH UNDER STIMULUS. — CONTINUITY BETWEEN ABNORMAL AND NORMAL RESPONSES. — SUMMARY. — XIX.—RESUMPTION OF AUTONOMOUS PULSATION AND OF GROWTH UNDER STIMULUS — REVIVAL OF AUTONOMOUS PULSATION UNDER STIMULUS. — REVIVAL OF GROWTH UNDER STIMULUS. — LAWS OF EFFECTS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT STIMULUS. — SUMMARY. — XX.—ACTION OF LIGHT AND WARMTH ON AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITY — THE OSCILLATING RECORDER. — RECORD OF PULSATION OF DESMODIUM GYRANS . — EFFECT OF DIFFUSE LIGHT ON PULSATION OF DESMODIUM . — EFFECT OF RISE OF TEMPERATURE ON PULSATION. — SUMMARY. — XXI.—A COMPARISON OF RESPONSES IN GROWING AND NON-GROWING ORGANS — CONTRACTILE RESPONSE OF GROWING AND NON-GROWING ORGANS. — CONTRACTILE RESPONSE OF PULVINATED AND GROWING ORGANS. — MODIFICATION OF RESPONSE BY CONDITION OF SUB-TONICITY. — EFFECTS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT STIMULUS. — MODIFICATION OF AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITY. — EXCITATORY EFFECTS OF VARIOUS STIMULI ON PULVINATED AND GROWING ORGANS. — EFFECT OF LIGHT ON PULVINATED ORGANS. — DIVERSE MODES OF RESPONSE TO STIMULUS. — SUMMARY.
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