Textbooks 



13. 



P.F.WAREING and I . D.J.PHILLIPS. 1978. THE CONTROL OF GROWTH AND DIFFEREN- 

 TIATION IN PLANTS. 2nd edit. 



Pergamon, Oxford, etc. Pergamon Internat. Library of Science, Technol., 

 Engin. and Social Studies. XII, 347 pp., 170 figs., 9 tabs., combined sub- 

 ject/taxonomic index. $ 35.00 (cloth), $ 15.00 (paper) 



This new edition of a well-known text has been extensively revised. The 

 material has been rearranged and large sections have been rewritten. The 

 data on phytochrome and phytomorphogenesis (sensu stricto) are now brought 

 together in a short new chapter. Notwithstanding the use of smaller print 

 the book is almost 50 pages longer. 



The reading lists have been revised and many new figures are included. 

 The figures, particularly the photographs, are less well reproduced than in 

 the original book. 



Monographs 



14. 



G.T.COLE AND R.A.SAMSON. 1979. PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT IN CONIDIAL FUNGI 

 Pitman, London, etc. XII, 190 pp., 452 figs., 6 tabs., combined subject/ 

 author /tax onomie index. £ 29.75 



Although this is a highly specialised work it may arouse the interest of 

 botanists and general microbiologists interested in development and morpho- 

 genesis, and of those theoretical biologists who are interested in the gen- 

 eration of linear or branched arrays of cells. The book is concerned largely 

 with asexual propagation in the Hyphomycetes, the major class of the Deute- 

 romycetes or Fungi Impevfeoti. It assembles information on conidiogenesis, 

 re-evaluates current developmental concepts, and presents hitherto unreport- 

 ed ultrastructural and developmental data on many species. A special feature 

 is the inclusion of an appendix on the comparable but subtly different pro- 

 cess of sporangiospore formation in the Zygomycetes. 



Almost all the fungal material on which the book is based was grown in 

 pure culture. A separate chapter describes culture and ultrastructural tech- 

 niques. All illustrations are original and of superb quality. They include 

 light micrographs and both transmission and scanning electron micrographs, 

 matched by excellent line drawings. The beautifully produced book is con- 

 cluded by a glossary and a bibliography of some 250 titles. 



15. 



V.I.KEFELI. 1978. NATURAL PLANT GROWTH INHIBITORS AND PHYTOHORMONES 

 Junk, The Hague, etc. XII, 277 pp., 58 figs., 27 tabs., subject index. 

 Dfl.90.00, $ 44.00, E 24.00 



Contents: I. General information on phytohormones and natural growth in- 

 hibitors, II. Principles of analysis of phytohormones and natural growth 

 inhibitors. III. Biosynthesis of phytohormones and natural growth inhib- 

 itors, IV. Functions of phytohormones and natural growth inhibitors in 

 growing plants, V. Regulatory functions of natural growth inhibitors and 

 dormancy period, VI. Characteristics of inhibitory effect of natural 

 growth inhibitors, VII. General problems of plant growth regulation 



The author of this book works at the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Phys- 

 iology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He and his co-workers (notably R.Kh. 

 Turetskaya) have played a major role in "putting on the map" the natural 

 (phenolic and terpenoid) plant growth inhibitors, which have in common that 



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