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Plant hormone research is the favorite topic of physiologists. Past three decades have witnessed that this subject has received much attention. The inquisitive nature of human mind has pumped much in literature on this subject and this volume is the product of such minds. In the following pages various hormonal-controlled physiological processes like, flowering, seed dormancy and germination, enzyme secretion, senes cence, ion transport, fruit ripening, root growth and development, thig momorphogenesis and tendril thigmonasty have been included. The volume also contains a review paper on 'Growth Regulating Activity of Penicillin in Higher Plants' and has been presented for the first time. The vast contents of each review paper have been written by erudite scholars who have admirably carried out their evangelic task to make the text up TO date. This volume, I am sure, would stimulate the appetite of researchers of peripheral disciplines of botany and agricultural sciences and they will continue to enjoy the fun and adventures of plant hormone research. Save one. my most outstanding debts are due to the rich array of the contributors and other plant physiologists specially to Prof. Thomas Gaspar (Belgium), Prof. E. E. Goldschmidt (Isreal), Prof. H. Greppin (Switzerland), Dr. K. Gurumurti (India), Prof. M. A. Hall (U. K. ), Prof. H. Harada (Japan), Dr. M. Kaminek (Czechoslovakia), Dr. J. L. Karm oker (BangIa Desh), Prof. Peter B. Kaufman (U. S. A. ), Dr. V. I. Kefeli . / (U. S. S. R. ), Dr. M. Kutaoek (Czechoslovakia), Prof. S.
List of contents
The Molecular Basis of Hormone Action.- Hormonal Regulation of Flowering.- Hormones in Seed Dormancy and Germination.- Hormonal Control of Enzyme Secretion by Plant Cells.- Hormonal Regulation of Senescence.- Hormonal Regulation of Ion Transport in Plants.- Growth Regulating Activity of Penicillin in Higher Plants.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Ethylene.- Plant Responses to Ethylene and Ethylene Releasing Compounds.- Ethylene and Other Plant Hormones in Thigmomorphogenesis and Tendril Thigmonasty.- Hormonal Regulation of the Gravitropic Response in Pulvini of Grass Shoots.- Hormonal Regulation of Root Formation.- Plant Hormones in Relation to Air Pollution Injury.- Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development: Problems and Prespectives.
