Biomorphology: Сurrent Status and Prospects
N. P. SAVINYKH1, V. A. CHERYOMUSHKINA2
1Vyatka State University of Humanities, 610007, Kirov, Leninа str., 198
2Central Siberian Botanical Garden, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya str., 101
Keywords: biomorph, boimorphology, ontomorphogenesis, module, shoot formation model
Abstract
On the basis of the concepts of I. G. Serebryakov (the founder of the science of plant life forms) and the analysis of current data the main directions of research and achievements of Russian botanists in the studying of life forms, as well as prospects for the development of biomorphology were shown. Plants were assessed as a distinctive group of living beings in the context of biological systems integrity. New approaches to habit characteristics, morphogenesis stages in relation to individual variations in ontogenesis, and classifications of plant life forms were considered. The role of systemic and dynamic approaches in description of plant life forms as modular organisms and the role of time as the forth dimension and fundamental category in plant habit formation were discussed. I. G. Serebryakov’s assumption of an evolutionary system of biomorphs as the system of parallel series of life forms similar to homologous series of hereditary variation was confirmed.
|
