Advances in Botany

Contents: Preface. 1. Revision of oenothera type embryosac development in angiosperms/T.B. Batygina and V.E. Vasilyeva, Russia. 2. Megasporogenesis and early megagemetogenesis in Rannunculus sceleratus linn/P. Chitralekha and Lokesh Garg. 3. Tracing the shoot apex in agiosperm embryo/D. Padmanabhan. 4. Reproduction in Rutaceae--a review/N. Prakash, Australia and A.L. Lim, Malaysia. 5. New perspectives in pollen biotechnology: plant transformation through male sexual route/Sanjeev K. Thind and C.P. Malik. 6. A light and scanning microscopic study of seeds in Sesamum L. (Padaliaceae) and its taxonomic and phylogenetic significance/Bir Bahadur, K. Vijaya Bhasker and K. Venkateshwarlu. 7. Differentiation and development of vein endings in the leaves of Dicotyledonous plants/Noboru Hara, Japan. 8. Scope of gene transfer in corp improvement/Alka Srivastava and S.S. Raghubanshi. 9. Joint forest management: regenerating India's forests/J.L. Bhatt. 10. A strategic approach to fuel plants/B.K. Behera and Ajit Verma. 11. Development of improved Baculoviral insecticides by genetic engineering/K.S. Mohan. 12. Taxonomy of Endomycorrhizal fungi/K.G. Mukerji. 13. Role of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in controlling soil borne diseases/B.N. Shulka, M.N. Khare and S.C. Vyas. 14. Nitrogen fixation in free living phototrophic microorganisms/Keshav Trehan. 15. Blackgram anthracnose--a review/Om Gupta and M.N. Khare. 16. Protection against fungal diseases in forestry/J.K. Sharma and C. Mohanan. 17. Microbial control of fungal root pathogens/D.J. Bagyaraj and M. Govindan. 18. The role of wild crucifers in the improvement of crop brassicas/Vipin K. Bansal, J.P. Tewari and T.R. Sharma, Canada. 19. Integrated disease management-future perspective/Rajee N. Kumar and K.G. Mukerji. 20. Microbial degradation of pesticides: environmental and ecological significance/Surendra Kumar and K.G. Mukerji. 21. The genus Lactarius in Nepal/M.K. Adhikari and V. Manandhar, Nepal.

"This book encompasses all the major fields of pure and applied botany. Brimming with current references, this volume is a useful resources. Anyone, interested in anatomy, embryology, forestry, mycorrhizae, plant pathology, microbial ecology, fungi and fungal processes in general will find a great deal of readily available information. This book will undoubtedly act as a springboard for innovative investigations into plant sciences in the next decade." (jacket)

[K.G. Mukerji is Professor of Botany at the University of Delhi. His books include Taxonomy of Indian Myxomycetes, Plant Diseases of India and Frontiers in Applied Microbiology.]