Product Description

This book presents a general picture of our current understanding of plant embryology from the formation of floral organs concerned with embryological processes to the genetic manipulation of embryos. Against the background of classical embryological studies, chapters in this book highlight, from a molecular-genetic perspective, investigations on the development of the male and female reproductive units, male sterility, incompatibility, fertilization, embryo and endosperm development, storage protein synthesis and adventive embryogenesis in flowering plants. Dramatic new developments in molecular biology and genetic engineering techniques have opened up new frontiers in our commercial exploitation of flowering plants. Manipulation of embryological processes to improve the quantity and quality of plant food products is one of the cherished goals of plant biologists and the work described in this book provides the up-to-date fundamental information necessary to achieve this goal.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2051707 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-13
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .4 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 712 pages

Review
"Raghavan states that his objective in writing this book is to 'explain the progress achieved toward a molecular understanding of the reproductive process in angiosperms with particular emphasis on embryology.' He succeeds admirably. The book is detailed, well researched, and well written, and underscores the dynamic nature of this field...A valuable resource for graduate students and professionals." Choice

"Molecular Embryology of Flowering Plants readily incorporates fifty years of scientific discovery, especially the latest cellular and molecular information, into the picture painstakingly drawn during several centuries of research...This book is as much a milestone at the end of this century as were the classic volumes of Johansen, Maheshwari, and Wardlaw at its halfway mark." The Quarterly Review of Biology