Orchid Biology

Reviews and Perspectives, VII
Herausgegeben:Arditti, J.; Pridgeon, Alec M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Personal Note I decided to initiate Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives in about 1972 and (alone or with co-authors) started to write some of the chapters and the appendix for the volume in 1974 during a visit to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Professor H. C. D. de Wit of Holland was also in Bogor at that time and when we discovered a joint interest in Rumphius he agreed to write a chapter about him. I visited Bangkok on my way home from Bogor and while there spent time with Professor Thavorn Vajrabhaya. He readily agreed to write a chapter. The rest of the chapters were solicited by mail and I had the complete manuscript on my desk in 1975. With that in hand I started to look for a publisher. Most of the publishers I contacted were not interested. Fortunately Mr James Twiggs, at that time editor of Cornell University Press, grew orchids and liked the idea. He decided to publish Orchid Biology: Reviews and Per spectives, and volume I saw the light of day in 1977. I did not know if there would be a volume II but collected manuscripts for it anyway. Fortunately volume I did well enough to justify a second book, and the series was born. It is still alive at present - 20 years, seven volumes and three publishers later. I was in the first third of my career when volume I was published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-4837-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 645g
• ISBN-13: 9789048148370
• ISBN-10: 9048148375
• Artikelnr.: 32103077

Inhaltsangabe

1. Brown Danube, Blue Pacific.- 2. Ovule and megagametophyte development in orchids.- 3. Molecular biology of orchids.- 4. Fungi from orchid mycorrhizas.- 5. Orchid production and research in Japan.- 6. Three orchids used as herbal medicines in China: an attempt to reconcile Chinese and Western pharmacology.- 7. Research on micropropagation of Cymbidium, nobile-type Dendrobium, and Phalaenopsis in Japan.- Orchid potting mixtures - An abridged historical review.- Chronological review.- Early potting mixtures: prior to 1900.- Potting mixes: 1900-1950.- New mixes evolve: 1950-1970.- Present day potting mixtures: 1970 to date.- Final thoughts.- References.- of Previous Volumes.- Index of Persons.- Index of Organism Names.- Index of Subjects.

Rezensionen

`The book is well-presented, well-written and well-printed. It should be of considerable interest to orchid specialists and growers, and botanists in general.' Biologia Plantarum, 42:1 (1999)

`The book is well-presented, well-written and well-printed. It should be of considerable interest to orchid specialists and growers, and botanists in general.'
Biologia Plantarum, 42:1 (1999)