Recent developments in plant sciences. S.M. Sircar Memorial Volume. 1982. figs. tabs. 391 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

The volume opens with an account of the modern concepts of the originof life on earth from the pen of Academician A.I. Oparin, followed bydiscourses on the origin of Angiosperms and the fossil records of plantlife. Several authors discuss the current theories of plant hormoneaction, various aspects of the Pysiology of flowering the potentialitiesand limitations of protoplast and tissue culture, mutagensis, breedingof improved varieties and factors which contribute to crop yield. Otherhighlights of the book include the physiological significance ofpolyamines in higher plants, plant choline esterases, a metabolic cycleinvolving myoinositol phosphates, analysis of young growing cell walls,the role of restriction endonucleases for DNA nucleotide sequence analysis, form and function in ecologic race formation and pollution.