the nerve growth factor on neural regeneration, and electron microscopy of 

 myelin regeneration. 



Several articles, among them those by Gutmann and Zelena, have very 

 extensive bibliographies. The book includes the discussions following some of 

 the lectures, and is concluded by author and subject indexes. Its production is 

 excellent, as in the other volumes of this series. 



Contributors: Gutmann (Prague), Liu (Philadelphia, Pa.). Lubinska (Warsaw), Miani 

 (Padua), Scott (Philadelphia, Pa.), Singer (Cleveland, Ohio). Trampusch (Amsterdam). Web- 

 ster (Boston, Mass.), Zelena (Prague). 



49. MERISTEMS AND DIFFERENTIATION 



1964 



Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory 

 Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, vol. 16 Upton, New York 



240 pp., 159 figs., 18 tbs. Price: $ 2.50 



(paper-bound) 



Plant morphologists, physiologists, and geneticists discuss in this volume 

 recent developments in the field of meristems and differentiation. Nearly all 

 contributors are from the United States. 



The first part of the book is based on experimental investigations concerning 

 the meristem and the physiology of cell division and differentiation. In the 

 second part the authors deal more specifically with morphogenesis and dif- 

 ferentiation. Development in a variety of higher plants is described. Also 

 metabolic changes in Euglena and the effect of the cytoplasm on cell wall 

 structure in Nitella and Hydrodictyon are discussed. One paper is devoted to 

 the plant embryo, while other articles deal with the embryo-like cells of 

 meristems. Recent advances with plant tissue cultures are enumerated. 



This sixteenth symposium, which was held in 1963, is a valuable addition to 

 the list of Brookhaven symposia; not only botanists but also zoologists may 

 profit from it. 



Each paper is followed by a list of references. A subject index is included. 



Contributors: Ball (Raleigh, N.C.), Barker (New Brunswick), Berlyn (New Haven, Conn.), 

 Blakely (Ithaca, N.Y.), Bonnett (Cambridge, Mass.), Bowen (Ames, Iowa), Braun (New 

 York, N.Y.), Brown (Edinburgh), Caplin (Los Angeles, Calif.), Clowes (Oxford), Constantin 

 (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Crotty (New York, N.Y.), Cuany (Iowa City, Iowa), D'Amato (Pisa), 

 Dennis (Geneva, N.Y.), Erickson (Philadelphia, Pa.), Evans (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Forman 

 (Berkeley, Cahf.), Galston (New Haven, Conn.), Gibor (New York, N.Y.), Gifford (Davis, 

 Calif.), Granick (New York, N.Y.), Green (Philadelphia, Pa.), Gunckel (New Brunswick, 

 N.J.), Hague (Eugene, Ore.), Halperin (Storrs, Conn.), Heslop-Harrison (Birmingham), 

 Hotta (Urbana, 111.), Jensen (Berkeley, Cahf.), Kaplan (Berkeley, Cahf.), Kefford (New 

 Haven, Conn.), Keitt (Tallahassee, Fla.), Kent (Ithaca, N.Y.), Leopold (Lafayette, Ind.), 

 Lyman (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Maksymowych (Villanova, Pa.), Mapes (Ithaca, N.Y.), Mericle 

 (East Lansing, Mich.), Morel (Versailles), Paolillo (Urbana, 111.), Popham (Columbus, Ohio), 

 Quastler (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Setterfield (Ontario), Shapiro (Eugene, Ore.), Skoog (Madison, 

 Wise), Smillie (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Soma (Tokyo), Sparrow (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Stallard 

 (Austin, Texas), Stein (Missoula, Mont), Stem (Urbana, 111.), Steward (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sussex 

 (New Haven, Conn.), Takats (Philadelphia, Pa.), Tepper (Syracuse, N.Y.), Tulecke (Yonkers, 

 N.Y.), Van 't Hof (Brookhaven, N.Y.), Whaley (Austin, Texas), Zubay (Brookhaven. N.Y.). 



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