Orchid Biology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Brown Danube, blue Pacific

   1. Brown Danube, blue Pacific

      • Joseph Arditti

      Pages 1-29

3. Embryolooy

   1. Ovule and megagametophyte development in orchids

      • Edward C. Yeung, Sandra K. Law

      Pages 31-73

4. Molecular Biology

   1. Molecular biology of orchids

      • Adelheid R. Kuehnle

      Pages 75-115

5. Mycorrhiza

   1. Fungi from orchid mycorrhizas

      • R. S. Currah, C. D. Zelmer, S. Hambleton, K. A. Richardson

      Pages 117-170

6. Basic and Applied Research

   1. Orchid production and research in Japan

      • Syoichi Ichihashi

      Pages 171-212

7. Ethnopharmacology

   1. Three orchids used as herbal medicines in China: an attempt to reconcile Chinese and Western pharmacology

      • C. S. Hew, J. Arditti, W. S. Lin

      Pages 213-283

8. Micropropagation

   1. Research on micropropagation of Cymbidium, nobile-type Dendrobium, and Phalaenopsis in Japan

      • Syoichi Ichihashi

      Pages 285-316

9. Back Matter

   Pages 317-394

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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.

• Embryo
• biology
• development
• fungi
• molecular biology
• mycorrhiza
• orchid
• orchid biology
• pharmacology
• Systematic Botany

`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)

• Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Joseph Arditti

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

  Alec M. Pridgeon

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