65 GROWTH AND ORGANIZATION IN PLANTS 



Structure; development; metabolism; physiology 

 1968 

 By F. C. Steward Addison-Wesley Publishing Cy. 



564 pp., 245 figs., 35 tbs. Reading, Mass., etc. 



Contents: 1. Concepts of growth and development: the scope of the problem; 2. Growth 

 and nutrition: inorganic nutrition; 3. Growth and organic nutrition: the building of complex 

 molecules; 4. Th^- non nutrient requirements and stimuli for growth: growth-regulatory sub- 

 stances; 5. Cell growth and cell division: growth forms; 6. Physiological functions: their 

 correlations with growth; 7. Morphogenetic stimuli; 8. The onset of flowering and fruiting: 

 contrasts in vegetative and reproductive growth; 9. Quantitative interpretations of growth: 

 growth curves and control systems; 10. Totipotency and diversification in cultured cells: 

 organization and the capacity to grow 



This is neither a text-book nor a compilatory work of reference. The book 

 is based on a series of lectures given for biology teachers, and centres largely 

 around the author's own research on a variety of aspects of plant growth 

 and development. The style is highly personal. The book covers an amazing 

 range of topics, mainly but by no means exclusively bearing on the angio- 

 sperms, and v^/ill no doubt be valuable to readers active in this field, as well 

 as to developmental biologists generally. The central idea pervading the 

 whole book is that biological organization is a field of study sui generis, 

 and that its problems can never be solved entirely by concentrating on 

 isolated aspects of the living organism. Accordingly the book contains a con- 

 siderable amount of original thought on biological organization, particularly 

 on its cytoplasmic or epigenetic aspects. These thoughts gain momentum 

 since they come from an author who is himself exceedingly well acquainted 

 with the intimate molecular workings of the plant organism. 



The book is beautifully illustrated with numerous line drawings and 

 photographs, many of which are taken from the author's own work. The 

 work is concluded by a bibliography of 32 pages (with references to chap- 

 ters), and an extensive alphabetical index. 



66 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANT GROWTH 



AND DEVELOPMENT 

 1969 

 Editor: M. B. Wilkins McGraw-Hill 



695 pp., 160 figs., 35 tbs. Maidenhead, Berks. 



SBN 07 094088 6 

 Price: .£ 6.6.0 



Contents: 1. The auxins (K. V. Thimann); 2. The gibberellins (R. E. Cleland); 3. The 

 cytokinins (J. E. Fox); 4. Transport of plant growth regulators (M. H. M. Goldsmith); 

 5. Apical dominance (I. D. J. Phillips); 6. Geotropism (L. J. Audus); 7. Phototropism (G. M. 

 Curry); 8. Nastic responses (N. G. Ball); 9. The movements of stomata (O. V. S. Heath and 

 T. A. Mansfield); 10. Photosynthesis (B. Kok); 11. Translocation of nutrients (M. Zimmer- 

 mann); 12. The water relations of plants (J. Dainty); 13. The ionic relations of plants 

 (J. Dainty); 14. Phytochrome (H. W. Siegelman); 15. Photomorphogenesis (H. Mohr); 16. 

 Photoperiodism and vernalization (W. S. Hillman); 17. Germination and dormancy (P. F. 

 Wareing); 18. Circadian rhythms in plants (M. B. Wilkins) 



This collaborative text-book of whole-plant physiology was written by 

 18 authors; nine Americans, eight Britons, and one German. It is aimed at 

 advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students who have a sophisticated 

 general appreciation of plant physiology and plant biochemistry. Separate 

 chapters on various aspects of plant biochemistry have been omitted because 

 a number of advanced text-books are already available in this field. 



The subjects of morphogenesis, cellular differentiation, and differential 



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