Hormones and Horticulture The Use of Special Chemicals in the Control of Plant Growth

Abstract

TWELVE years ago Avery and Burkholder, with other collaborators, translated "Die Wuchstoff-theorie" (Boysen–Jensen) and published a very useful introductory account of "Growth Hormones in Plants" which reviewed the literature concerned with the discovery and isolation of highly active substances from plant tissues, and with the application of these substances and chemically prepared compounds to plants. The ensuing interval has witnessed a rapid and wide extension of the list of synthetic compounds of very high activity, and has also afforded some, but perhaps not as yet sufficient, time in which to estimate the value of their practical application on a commercial scale to cultivated plants. The present volume deals with this expansion and the more practical applications, as the sub-title indicates. Hormones and Horticulture The Use of Special Chemicals in the Control of Plant Growth. By George S. Avery Jr. Elizabeth Bindloss Johnson Prof. Ruth M. Addoms Prof. Betty F. Thomson. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Botanical Sciences.) Pp. xi + 326. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1947.) 27s.