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Orchid Biology

Reviews and Perspectives, VII

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Arditti

    1. Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA

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  2. Alec M. Pridgeon

    1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  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

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 317-394
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About this book

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.

Reviews

`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)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Joseph Arditti

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

    Alec M. Pridgeon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Orchid Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Reviews and Perspectives, VII

  • Editors: Joseph Arditti, Alec M. Pridgeon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2498-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4516-9Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4837-0Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2498-2Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 394

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Sciences

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