Symmetry in Plants

Foreword - the aims and scope of the book a glance at each chapter, D. Barabe and R.V. Jean prologues - by a botanist, R.O. Erickson, by a mathematician, I. Adler, by a crystallographer, A. Mackay, by a molecular geneticist, A. Lima-de-Faria part 1 - basic information gathering in phyllotaxis - data-experimentation part 2 - pattern recognition in phylotaxis - description part 3 pattern generation in phyllotaxis - modelling part 4 origins of phyllotaxis - homology-comparative morphology-exotic phyllotaxis, literature, appendices.