20. 



M.W.MILLER and Ch . C . KUEHNERT , eds. 1972. THE DYNAMICS OF MERISTEM 

 CELL POPULATIONS 



Plenum Press, New York, etc. Adv. in Exp. Med. and Biol. vol.l8. 

 XVIII, 309 pp., 118 figs., 27 tabs., author and subject indexes. 

 $ 22.50 



The Symposium of which this book contains the proceedings was 

 held in August, 1971 and all the material is in the form of 

 rather brief research reports, so that much of it may now have 

 been published more fully elsewhere. Still, we mention ic brief- 

 ly because there are not many recent sources on meristem biology 

 in which the work of so many leaders in the field is brought to- 

 gether. 



We restrict ourselves to mentioning the subjects of those pa- 

 pers out of the total of 17 that we consider most important from 

 the point of view of plant morphogenesis: Initiation of organi- 

 zation in the root apex (Torrey); mitotic cycle regulation in 

 the root meristem (Van't Hof and Kovacs); meristematic activity 

 in wound xylem differentiation (Fosket); correlative inhibition 

 in the shoot (Cutter); histogen of the shoot apex (Ball); deter- 

 mination of leaf primordia in Osmunda (Kuehnert); control of 

 cell proliferation in root meristems (Clowes); development of 

 meristems in seed embryos (D'Amato); morphogenesis of lateral 

 root primordia (Davidson); development of wheat "gamma plantlets" 

 (Haber) . 



INVERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT (general) (see also 63,69,83,84,106, 



_ — 120,136) 



Treatises 



21. 



S.J.COUNCE and C .H . WADDINGTON, eds. 1972-1973. DEVELOPMENTAL 



SYSTEMS J INSECTS 2 Vols. 



Academic Press, London, etc. XXVIII, 919 pp., 229 figs., 34 tabs., 



author, subject, and taxonomic indexes. Vol.1 (1972) £ 6. 50, 



Vol.2 (1973) £ 10.00 



Contents vol.1: 1. Oogenesis (Mahowald); 2. Development of ap- 

 terygote insects (Jura); 3. The development of hemimetabolous 

 insects (Anderson); 4. The development of holometabolous in- 

 sects (Anderson); 5. Polyembryony in insects ( Ivanova-Kasas ) 

 Contents vol.2: 1. The causal analysis of insect embryogenesis 

 (Counce); 2. The development of spatial patterns in the integ- 

 ument of insects (Lawrence); 3. The imaginal discs of Droso- 

 phila (Gehring and Nothiger); 4. Role of hormones in insect 

 development (Doane); 5. The morphogenesis of patterns in 

 Drosophila (Waddington) 



"Insects have been utilized for experimental studies of devel- 

 opment for more than seventy years. Yet much significant work^of 

 general interest remains virtually unknown to biologists outside 

 the field itself. The aim of these volumes is to provide, for 

 both specialist and neophyte, detailed and critical analyses of 

 several aspects of the developmental biology of insects." Thus 

 begins the preface of this collaborative treatise, which will no 

 doubt be very welcome also to those who do not actually work 

 with insects. As will be seen from the table of contents the au- 

 thors could not have been better selected. For reasons of size 

 limitation areas such as regeneration, metamorphosis, cytology, 

 developmental genetics, and biochemistry are not given separate 

 chapters, though each is considered in several places. Detailed 



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