Structure and Function of Roots: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Structure and Function of Roots, June 20–26, 1993, Starį Lesnį, ... (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, 58) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792328329 ISBN 13: 9780792328322

Publisher: Springer, 1995

Synopsis

In 1971, the late Dr. J. Kolek of the Institute of Botany, Bratislava, organized the first International Symposium devoted exclusively to plant roots. At that time, perhaps only a few of the participants, gathered together in Tatranska Lomnica, sensed that a new era of root meetings was beginning. Nevertheless, it is now clear that Dr. Kolek's action, undertaken with his characteristic enormous enthusiasm, was rather pioneering, for it started a series a similar meetings. Moreover, what was rather exceptional at the time was the fact that the meeting was devoted to the functioning of just a single organ, the root. One possible reason for the unexpected success of the original, perhaps naive, idea of a Root Symposium might lie with the fact that plant roots have always been extremely popular as experimental material for cytologists, biochemists and physiologists whishing to probe processes as diverse as cell division and solute transport. Of course, the connection of roots with the rest of the plant is not forgotten either. This wide variety of disciplines is now coupled with the development of increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques to study some of these old problems. These factors undoubtedly contribute to the necessity of continuing the tradition of the root symposia. The common theme of root function gives, in addition, a certain unity to all these diverse activities.

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Review

`The book, as other volumes of this series, is well produced. It can be receommended to everybody searching up-to-date information concerning root anatomy and physiology.'
Biologia Plantarum, 38:1 (1996)

Synopsis

These papers summarize the present status of knowledge related to the structure and function of primary root tissues and their cells, as presented at the Fourth International Symposium on the Structure and Functions of Roots. The organizers assembled leading scientists from all over the world. All five subject areas that were presented at the Symposium are covered in the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792328329
• ISBN 13: 9780792328322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Baluska F., Ciamporovį Milada, Gasparķkovį Otķlia, Barlow Peter W.