55 BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANT 



GROWTH SUBSTANCES 

 1968 

 Editors: F. Wightman and G. Setterfield The Runge Press Ltd. 



1642 pp., 727 figs., 350 tbs., 5 pis. Ottawa 



Price: Can. $ 24.00; 

 U.S. $ 22.00; £ 9.0.0 



This mammoth volume contains the 1 1 2 papers read at the 6th International 

 Conference on Plant Growth Substances held in Ottawa in July 1967. The 

 plant hormones discussed at the meeting included auxins, cytokinins, gib- 

 berellins, ethylene, and abscisic acid. Important subjects discussed were hor- 

 mone actions in relation to nucleic acid metabolism, protein synthesis, cell wall 

 physiology, and cell ultrastructure. 



The papers are grouped into 19 sections. In view of the specialized nature 

 of the meeting we will mention only those sections which we consider to be 

 of special interest to plant morphogeneticists. They are the following: VII. 

 Hormonal control of cell division and cell growth (8 papers); XI. Hormonal 

 regulation of differentiation and metabolism in plant tissue cultures (6); XII. 

 Hormonal regulation of organ development (3); XIV. Hormone transport in 

 relation to tropisms, growth and differentiation (8); XVI. Hormonal regulation 

 of flowering (6). 



The book is well printed and sturdily bound. It has no indexes. 



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