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A. C. Dutta:
students.
Botany for degree
of the
One
difficulties
for
student
consequently
in
parts,
those
the
illustrate
Mr.
and
Dutta’s
in
other
of other
parts,
will
book
be
2nd ed.
The
the author
of ten
wealth
facts
giving
chapters
figures,
to all
fruits. The
and
evolution
them
between
are
dealt
in rather
an
least
of
unsatisfactory
well
are
Apparently
and
physics
of
formula
the
students
even
is
the connections
made
in
found
to be
of two
are
amount of heat
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enzyme
break
down
side
kinds,
is
and
part
oughly
are
taken
to
the
two-
or
for
for
Without
of
stu-
the
neglecting
flora
and as such
India,
his
paleotropics.
the
takes
too,
is not
confined
are
of
Rays
of seven colours
in white
includes
Light
light, it
is
on
almost
items
of
seeds
The
chapters
angiosperms.
chapters,
next
on
physio-
on
often introduced
are
Photosynthesis.
in the
only
by
such
phytochemical aspects
or
aspects
arranged
than
dispersal
included.
to the
bio-
and chemical
author is
student:
Indian
germination, and
but when
the
subject)
a
understanding.
part
Consequently the
“Effect of
of
The text is illustrated
author. This
cryptogams
Physical
place
of the
there.
paleobotany.
the whole
on
to the reader’s
needs
and
botany,
but
development
cultivated
and
It is a
-
following order:....
few of the above rays
a
(p. 309).
supposed
have
to
for the
symbols
substance
is
a more than
elements
are
elementary knowledge
used,
given. Consequently
different metabolic
level
viz.
fixed
or
lipase
is liberated.”
(p.
processes
and,
on
and
as
becoming turgid
in
the
and then
process
revised
biochemistry
by
and
one
of the
physiology.
acids
322).
of
but not one structural
it would
the
are
be
whole,
no
difficult
to
attempt
and essential
and
statements, many
usually present
or
glycerine. By
is
“Starch is formed
(p. 158).
from
is
by
into
briefly
glucose
“As the
cortex cells
their
wall
(p. 280/281).
and
author’s
pressure
These few
examples
items
with
pressing
a
up
relation
on
action
between
Root
genetics.)
water from the
towards
warrant
in the other
more
under the
in the reverse way these
it out
may
are
hydrolysing enzymes
chapter
altematingly taking
physiological
colleagues
in the
They : “...
decomposition a large
proteins” (p. 312/313) (The
mentioned
of which
in the form of oils.
volatile...”
this
duringthe germinationof seeds,
acids
of the
III and the biochemical
fats
action is reversible.”
amino
a result
fatty
162 and
protein synthesis
explained
excuse for erroneous
plants
non-volatile,... ,
into
into amino acids
the
“In
:
e.g.
(phosphorylase). The
back
it is no
be,
may
chapters,
the enzyme
becoming flaccid
that
these
proteins
RNA
pressure
in
condense
enzymes
DNA,
taught
as
that direction.
decomposed by
of
e.g.;
not
are
between
Whatever the student’s
Oils
to the
or
cytology),
composed
simple organic
a
show
are
adding
adapted
in India
of the book.
the chemical
chemistry:
the
USA;
etc.
preparing
economic
the historic
fairly adequate,
for this function.”
required
and the
chemistry
of examples
crops
subjects,
development, seed
and
are
Although photosynthesis normally
are
on
these
them and thus
manner,
light
and the
genetics,
on
gymnosperms
chapters
satisfactory
known fact that white
that
and
the author often is beside the mark.
with,
are the
logy,
these
and
students
students in the
original drawings by
morphology
the whole
On
developing countries
Europe
number
Sh.
(pass standard), and, possibly,
vegetation
many
plants growing
anatomy (including histology
on
in
physics
is understood.
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the
botany
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emphasizes
angiosperms,
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students
morphology, physiology, ecology,
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Asiatic countries
consists
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the connections
showing
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and
1968.
written for students
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examination
The text contains
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The book
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xylem,
the conclusion
should
specialized knowledge
be
of
thor-
plant
570
Good
on the
It is not
taxonomic
The
and
of
school.
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has
The
absence
of
The
The inclusion
culture
too,
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on
plant
to
the
growth,
have
are
paragraph
a
and its inclusion
on
to this
on
more
principles
a
more
have
been
irreversible
Tyree. 134
for trees,
enabled
to the
and
in
its
for
or
well chosen
absence
of
names
of classification
primarily
from
to
this
of anatomical
about
are
340
local
a
and
present day taxonomy,
complete
the
data
point
Three
relating
respect.
The
The second
by
M. T.
last
lates. Here
The
are
for the
supplemented by
cation
species
botany
is an indication
student
of
of the
botany.
The
in
a
considerable
for
plant breeding
the
vitamins,
man
and not with
regard
cotyledons
Recent
as
book
is
Brown:
Trees,
in mind.
agri-
This
mentioned in the
to their
their
book
structure
of transport
336 p.
U.S. $
bias
chapter
importance for
the
Bottelier
1971.
and
With
function.
phenomena
Kramer
M.
by
New
Berlin, Heidelberg,
a
T.
York,
19.80.
confined themselves
to be
a
general
of several
account
a
concerned with
the
of the tree
shape
major subject
tree
to
subjects
physiology.
aspects
of the
more
This
or
less
typical
restriction has
relations
between
form
highly
welcome
is
primary
and the
the
and
typical
transport of
chapter
on
the
secondary growth
and
differences between
solutes
steady
in the
state
the correlations
the
xylem
species
and the
thermodynamics
in
this
phloem,
of translo-
Tyree.
only
as
a
of the
of the title
well
L.
an admirable
are
in
and in
older
highly
description
of storage,
biochemistry
either
mentioned
assimilates, respectively,
The
C.
thermodynamics
intend
the absence
are
of
importance
chapter on genetics,
importance
tables, XIII,
chapter contains
trees
to
trees.
chapters
responsible
of
complete
sadly underrepresented.
explains why
the authors have
preface
give
to
in
group,
useful.
for the Indian
mankind
DM. 72.-,
did not
them
and function
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figures,
Springer Verlag.
According
much
them.
H. Zimmermann and
on
treat-
the Indian
H.P.
chapter
readily
superficial
discipline by
should
on
the life-
justification.
length seem
at
local
economic
nutrients
locally
and systems
applied solely
other
no
value
prove
with
paragraphs
elucidating
such
Gymnosperms
the
if it
as
of course,
listing
written
as
chapter
almost
should
research
discussed
of
groups
for
from
receives
regrettable. The Monocotyledons
names
been
been chosen
paleobotany
The
not.
examples
K.U.
M.
in the
paleobotanical grounds.
of little
and
utility of plants for
plants producing
the
treated
most
chapter
a
agricultural
seems
towards
are
The
have
cases
that
the
and
but,
seem
languages
of
by
of its conciseness.
spite
botany,
sometimes
date,
to
up
Angiosperms,
Dicotyledons
of
textbook of
important contributions
very
that
of chemotaxonomical
glossary
a
the text.
followed
in
adequate,
seems
antiquated.
many
between
historical
Angiosperm taxonomy
number of Indian
in
morphological
formulas
fairly
regrettable
of the
surprising
floral
and
enliven
of ecology,
principles
treatment in
seem rather
perhaps
It is
differences
on
slight
some
The families
view.
could
the treatment of the
precedes
a
simple experiments
original
sometimes
because
great
emphasized
It is
is
part
representatives.
The
such
gymnosperms
particularly
ment,
is
of
to the
given
applauded.
cryptogams
available
is
which
finds
one
is to be
cryptogams
more
that
always
one
number
large
VIII an introduction
vegetation of India,
present
cycles
of a
descriptions
In part
a
Gymnosperms
two half page
few casual
literature
recommended
have
mobilization
of the first
or
two
and circulation
phenomena is
Dicotyledons;
paragraphs
on
the
felt
as
an
of assimiomission.
arborescent
xylem transport
and
Mono-
storage
of
remarks.
received full
to everyone
consideration.
interested
in tree
physiology.
H.P. Bottelier