Continuing its excellent reputation and tradition, this volume contains seven articles by outstanding contributors to orchid science. Covers such issues as ecology, development, physiology, the orchid production industry, pollination and the history of orchid botany. A special appendix features a complete discussion of pests that attack orchids and practical methods of pest control.
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Among the important papers collected in this volume is Robert M. Hamilton's "Flowering Months of Orchid Species Under Cultivation," which records the number of incidences of flowering in each month for an enormous number of species & varieties over a 150-year period.
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Auto-pollination of Orchids, subterranean orchids, water relations of orchids, Dactylorhiza review And much more,
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This review is from: Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, Volume Five (Orchid Biology) (Hardcover)
Joseph Arditti received his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, and is now Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research has centered on orchid physiology and development. He is co-author, with A. S. Dunn (University of Southern California), of Experimental Physiology: Experiments in Cellular, General, and Plant Physiology. Contents of Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, Volume V: 1. Orchids in My Life - Frits W. Went 2. The Western Australian Fully Subterranean Orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri - Kingsley W. Dixon, John S. Pate, and John Kuo 3. Water Relations in Orchids - Russell Sinclair 4. Auto-pollination in the Orchidaceae - Paul M. Catling 5. A Review of the Genus Dactylorhiza - Leonid V. Averyanov 6. Power and Passion: The Orchid in Literature - Martha W. Hoffman Lewis 7. Perspectives of Tropical Orchids in Space Research - T M. Czerevczenko and I. V Kosakovskaya Appendix: Flowering Months of Orchid Species Under Cultivation - Robert H. Hamilton
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