Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, VII / Edition 1

by J. Arditti, Alec M. Pridgeon

Overview

A Personal Note I decided to initiate Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives in about 1972 and (alone or with co-authors) started to write some of the chapters and the appendix for the volume in 1974 during a visit to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Professor H. C. D. de Wit of Holland was also in Bogor at that time and when we discovered a joint interest in Rumphius he agreed to write a chapter about him. I visited Bangkok on my way home from Bogor and while there spent time with Professor Thavorn Vajrabhaya. He readily agreed to write a chapter. The rest of the chapters were solicited by mail and I had the complete manuscript on my desk in 1975. With that in hand I started to look for a publisher. Most of the publishers I contacted were not interested. Fortunately Mr James Twiggs, at that time editor of Cornell University Press, grew orchids and liked the idea. He decided to publish Orchid Biology: Reviews and Per­ spectives, and volume I saw the light of day in 1977. I did not know if there would be a volume II but collected manuscripts for it anyway. Fortunately volume I did well enough to justify a second book, and the series was born. It is still alive at present - 20 years, seven volumes and three publishers later. I was in the first third of my career when volume I was published.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048148370
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/10/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Brown Danube, Blue Pacific.- 2. Ovule and megagametophyte development in orchids.- 3. Molecular biology of orchids.- 4. Fungi from orchid mycorrhizas.- 5. Orchid production and research in Japan.- 6. Three orchids used as herbal medicines in China: an attempt to reconcile Chinese and Western pharmacology.- 7. Research on micropropagation of Cymbidium, nobile-type Dendrobium, and Phalaenopsis in Japan.- Orchid potting mixtures — An abridged historical review.- Chronological review.- Early potting mixtures: prior to 1900.- Potting mixes: 1900–1950.- New mixes evolve: 1950–1970.- Present day potting mixtures: 1970 to date.- Final thoughts.- References.- of Previous Volumes.- Index of Persons.- Index of Organism Names.- Index of Subjects.

Editorial Reviews

‘The book is well-presented, well-written and well-printed. It should be of considerable interest to orchid specialists and growers, and botanists in general.'
Biologia Plantarum, 42:1 (1999)

From the Publisher

The sixth volume of authoritative, critical reviews on topics associated with orchids. The review-essays address topics in history (History of Orchids in Europe, from Antiquity to the 17th Century), ecology (Interactions Between Orchids and Ants), development (Resupination), physiology (Physiology of Orchid Flowers), economics- horticulture (Orchid Cut-Flower Production in ASEAN Countries), and pollination (Fly Pollination in the Orchidaceae). There is also a personal memoir about the orchids of Papua New Guinea, and an appendix that provides a compendium of orchid pests. Illustrated in b&w. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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