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Book Reviewed in this article Ecological Studies—Analysis and Synthesis, Volume 43. Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems—the Role of Nutrients Edited by F. J. Kruger, D. T. Mitchell and J. U. M. Jarvis Insect Ecology E. G. Mathews and R. L. Kitching Donald Thompson's Mammals and Fishes of Northern Australia Edited and annotated by Joan M. Dixon and Linda Huxley Grasses. A Guide to their Structure, Identification, Uses and Distribution in the British Isles. 3rd edition C. E. Hubbard, revised by J. C. E. Hubbard Soil Salinity Under Irrigation. Ecological Studies Number 51 Edited by I. Shainberg and J. Shalhevet Nothofagus cunninghamii (Southern Beech) Vegetation in Australia. Australian Flora and Fauna Series, Number 1 John R. Busby Sandy Beaches as Ecosystems. Developments in Hydrobiology 19 Edited by A. McLachlan and T. Erasmus, Dr W. Junk BV     

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EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY OF VASCULAR PLANTS. Edited by B. M. J ohri
ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL SAVANNAS (Ecological Studies, Volume 42). Edited by B. J. H untley & B. H. W alker
NITROGEN CYCLING IN ECOSYSTEMS OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Edited by G. P. R obertson , R. H errera & T. R osswall     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sunda and Sahul: Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia. Edited by J. Allen, J. Golson and R. Jones Kinship in Bali. By Hildred and Clifford Geertz The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597–1972. By James A. Boon The Realm of the Extra-Human: Ideas and Actions. Edited by Agehananda Bharati The Realm of the—Extra-Human. Agents and Audiences. Edited by Agehananda Bharati The Demystification of Yap. Dialectics of Culture on a Micronesian Island. By David Labby South Indian Factory Workers: Their Life and Their World. By Mark Holström Mass Society and Political Conflict: Towards a Reconstruction of Theory. By Sandor Halebsky Kapingamarangi Lexicon. By Michael D. Lieber and Kalio H. Dikepa The Biology of Human Action. By Vernon Reynolds. W. H. Freeman The Origin of the Australians. Edited by R. L. Kirk and A. G. Thorne Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation. Bone Diseases in Ancient Populations. By R. Ted Steinbock. Charles C. Thomas Urbanization in the Middle East. By V. F. Costello Archaeology and Anthropology: Areas of Mutual Interest. Edited by M. Spriggs Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology. Edited by R. A. Gould A Guide to Chinese Cuisine and Restaurants of Taiwan. By Holly Richardson Donovan     

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Introductory Statistics for Biology. Studies in Biology, no. 43. By R. E. P arker .
Biological Management and Conservation. By M. B. U sher .
Systemic Fungicides. Edited by R. W. M arsh with the assistance of R. J. W. B yrde and D. W oodcock .
The Structure and Function of Enzymes. Studies in Biology, no. 42. By C olin H. W ynn .
Annual Review of Phytopathology. Vol. 10. Edited by K. F. B aker ; associate editors G. A. Z entmyer and E. B. C owling .
The Biology of Pollution. Studies in Biology , no. 38. By K enneth M ellanby .     

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Lower Upper Cretaceous Plant Microfossils from Minnesota . By R ichard L. P ierce .
Rubber: Botany, Production and Utilization . By L oren G. P olhamus .
Manipulations de Botanique . By L. G enèves .
Chromosome Numbers of Central and Northwest European Plant Species . Opera Botanica (Botaniska Notiser supplement) Vol. 5. By A. and D. L öve .
Synthesis of Molecular and Cellular Structure . Edited by D orothea R udnick .
Contemporary Botanical Thought . Edited by A. M. M acleod and L. S. C obley .
Flora of New Zealand . Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons. By H. H. A llan .
A Review of Nitrogen in the Tropics with Particular Reference to Pastures— A Symposium . Bulletin No. 46 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Pastures and Field Crops. Edited by a Committee of the Division of Tropical Pastures, C.S.I.R.O., Australia.
Control Mechanisms in Cellular Processes . The Seventh Annual Symposium publication of the Society of General Physiologists. Edited by D avid M. B onner .
Recent Advances in Botany . From lectures and symposia presented to the IX International Botanical Congress, Montreal 1959. Vols. I and II.
Encyclopaedia of Plant Physiology . Edited by W. R uhland . Vol. XVI. External factors Affecting Growth and Development. Sub-editor: G. Melchers.
Advances in Genetics . Vol. X. Edited by E. W. C aspari and J. M. T hoday .
Soil Micro-organisms and Higher Plants . By N. A. K rasilnikov . Translated by Y. Halperin.
An Introduction to the Cytogenetics of Polvploids . By G. W. P. D awson .
Plant Pathology: An Advanced Treatise . Vol. III: The Diseased Population, Epidemics and Control. Edited by J. G. H orsfall and A. E. D imond .     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna with Special Reference to Macroinvertebrates R. C. Muirhead-Thomson The World Mining Industry: Investment Strategy and Public Policy. World Industry Studies No. 6 R. F. Mikesell and J. W. Whitney. Australian Arachnology Edited by A. D. Austin and N. W. Heather. Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants on Forests, Wetlands, and Agricultural Ecosystems. NATO ASI Series, Series G. Ecological Sciences, Vol. 16. T. C. Hutchinson, K. M. Meema. Environmental Policies in East and West Edited by G. Enyedi, A. J. Gijswijt and B. Rhode. The Koala — A Natural History Anthony Lee and Roger Martin.     

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Book reviews in this article. Encyclopaedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Vol. 12, Part C, Physiological Plant Ecology III. Responses to the Chemical and Biological Environment Edited by O. L. Lange, P. S. Nobel, C. B. Osmond and H. Ziegler The Ethics of Environmental Concern Robin Attfield The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species P. A. Parsons Ecological Genetics D. J. Merrell Phytotelmata: Terrestrial Plants as Hosts for Aquatic Insect Communities Edited by J. H. Frank and L. P. Lounibos Lake Chad — Ecology and Productivity of a Shallow Tropical Ecosystem. Monographiae Biologicae 53 Edited by J. P. Carmouze, J. R. Durand and C. Lévèque, Dr. W. Junk Guidelines for the Management of Large Mammals in African Conservation Areas Edited by A. A. Ferrar     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Statistics for Biology. Microcomputer Edition O. N. Bishop Field Guide to Eucalypts — Volume 1, Southeastern Australia M. 1. H. Brooker and D. A. Kleinig Paleolimnology. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Paleolimnology, held at Joensuu, Finland. Developments in Hydrobiology 15 . Edited by J. Merilainen, P. Huttunen and R. W. Battarbee, Dr W. Junk B V The Gastric Brooding Frog Edited by Michael J. Tyler     

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Book reviewed in this article: Peoples of South Asia. By Clarence Maloney Biosocial Anthropology. Edited by Robin Fox Studies in African Social Anthropology. Edited by Meyer Fortes and Sheila Patterson Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands. By Ben R. Finney Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians. By Ben R. Finney Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development Te Ao Hurihuri: The World Moves On. Edited by Michael King Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society. By Nancy D. Munn Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom. By Jack Hurner Look Forward, Not Back: Aborigines in Metropolitan Brisbane 1965–1966. By H. M. Smith and E. Biddle Aboriginal Prehistory in New England: An Archaeological Survey of Northeastern New South Wales. By Isabel McBryde Fort Jesus: a Portuguese Fortress on the East African Coast. By James Kirkman Archaeozoological Studies: Papers of the Archeozoological Conference 1974, held at the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut of the State University of Groningen. Edited by A. T. Clason Men of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory. By Brian M. Fagan     

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The Ieland of Menatruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea. By Ian Hogbin Anthropology in Oceania: Essays presented to Ian Hogbin. Edited by L. R. Hiatt and C. Jaywardena Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion. By Roy Wagner The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. By Paula Brown Physical Anthropology of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By R. A. Littlewood Change and Development in Rural Melanesia. Edited by Marion Ward A Study in Structural Semantics: The Siriono Kinship System. By Harold W. Scheffler and Floyd G. Lounsbury Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. By J. A. Barnes Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology. Edited by Philip Mayer Primitive Law, Past and Present. By A. S. Diamond The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Edited by T. O. Beidelman Essays on the Caste Syetem. By Celestin Bouglé Religious Experience: its nature and function in the human psyche. By Walter Houston Clark Man for Humanity. On Concordance vs Discord in Human Behavior. Edited by H Masserman and J. J. Schwab. Charles C. Thomas The Emergence of Man. By John E. Pfeiffer Papers in Economic Prehistory: Studies by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture. Edited by E. S. Higgs Yirawala, Artist and Man. By Sandra le Brun Holmes Science and Archaeology. Edited by Robert H. Brill Tongues of Men and Angela. By William J. Samarin. Macmillan Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity. By J. N. Moore and H. S. Slusher Moko: or Maori Tattooing. By H. G. Robley. Chapman and Hall Frozen Tombs: the Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen. By Sergei I. Rudenko Anthropology for our Times. By Lois Brauer Cover     

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Book Reviewed in this article Outline of a Theory of Practice. Pierre Bourdieu. Richard Nice Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation. Edited by Julian H. Steward, Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies. Richard Basham The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines. Jon C. Altman and John Nieuwenhuysen ‘Whitefella Business’: Aborigines in Australian Politics. Edited by Michael C. Howard Aborigines and Change: Australia in the Seventies. Edited by R. M. Berndt Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians. H. C. Coombs Taim Bilong Mani: The Evolution of Agriculture in a Solomon Island Society. John Connell Agricultural Project Design and Evaluation in an Island Community. Alan Bollard. Zum Beispiel Samoa. Götz Mackensen Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reaction to Change in Asia. Edited by D. B. Miller. Edward Arnold Sherpas Through Their Ritual. Sherry B Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court. David M. Engel Thailand: A Rice-Growing Society. Edited by Yoneo Ishii Migrants of the Mountains: The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. William Robert Geddes Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand. Edited by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman and Sanga Sabhasri Early Palaeolithic in South and East Asia. Edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Advances In Andean Archaeology. Edited by David L. Browman Simulation Studies in Archaeology. Edited by Ian Hodder Evolutionary Models and Studies in Human Diversity. Edited by Robert J. Meier Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia Principles of Visual Anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings Tiv Song. Charles Keil Coyoteway. A Navajo Holyway Healing Ceremonial. Karl W. Luckert Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians. Selected and Interpreted by G. M. Mullett Folklore in the Modern World. Edited by Richard Dorson     

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ASPECTS AND PROSPECTS OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS . Edited by B. J effcoat .
ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH, VOLUME 8 . Edited by H. W oolhouse
PLANTS AND THEIR ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT . 21st Symposium of The British Ecological Society. Edited by J. G race , E.D. F ord & P.G. J arvis
PLANT TISSUE CULTURE . Proceedings of the Beijing (Peking) Symposium
NITROGEN FIXATION . Edited by W.D.P. S tewart
THE BLUE LIGHT SYNDROME . Edited by H. S enghr
COMMENTARIES IN PLANT SCIENCE , Volume 2. Edited by H. S mith
NEW TRENDS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF NITROGEN FIXATION . Edited by J. C hatt , G eneral L.M. da C amara P ina & R.L. R ichards
ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS . By A.H. F itter & R.K.M. H ay     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Termites and Other Common Timber Pests P. Hadlington Plant Population Ecology Edited by A. J. Davy, M. J. Hutchings and A. R. Watkinson Vertebrates in Complex Tropical Systems Edited by Mireille L. Harmelin-Vivien and François Bourlière The Tropical Rain Forest: First Encounter M. Jacobs Soils of the World — Wall Chart Compiled by P. Lof, edited by H. van Baren Associations Between Insects and Plants T. R. New The Wombat: Common Wombats in Australia Barbara Triggs The Lyrebird: A Natural History Pauline Reilly Review of the Protected Areas System in the Indo-Malayan Realm J. MacKinnon and K. MacKinnon     

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Book reviewed in this article: Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations. Edited by F. George and L Foundations of Kinship Mathematics. By Pin-Hsiung Liu Infanticide: Comparative and evolutionary perspective. Edited by Glen Housfater and Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy Self, Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork. Edited by T.L. Whitehead and M.E. Conaway The Constitution of Society. By Anthony Giddens The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method. By Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi Advocacy and Anthropology: First Encounters. Edited by R. Paine Native Power: The Quest for Autonomy and Nationhood of Indigenous Peoples. Edited by J. Brosted, J. Dahl, A. Gray, H. Gullor, G. Henriksen, J. Jorgensen, and I. Kleivan Gender and Power in Rural Greece. By J. Dubisch Australian Ways: Anthropological Studies of an Industrial Society. Edited by Lenore Manderson Opencut. The Working Class in an Australian mining town. By Claire Williams The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism. By David K. Jordan and Daniel L. Relativism and the Social Sciences. By Ernest Gellner. Published by Cambridge University Press On Anthropological Knowledge. Three Essays. By Dan Sperber. Un ethnologue dans le mitro. By Marc Auge Handbook of Australian Languages Volume 3. Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake.     

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Fisheries' Acoustics . D.N. M ac L ennan & E.J. S immonds (1992).
Environmental Biology of European Cyprinids . W. W ieser , F. S chiemer , A. G oldschmidt & K. K otrschal (Eds) (1992).
The Natural History of Blackflies . R.W. C rosskey (1990).
Catch Effort Sampling Strategies . Edited by I.G. Cowx (1991).
Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology and Aquaculture . Edited by D. B elk , H.J. D umont & N. M unuswamy . (1991).     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics (1994). By E. A. Birge
Microbial Mats: Structure, Development and Environmental Significance (1994). Edited by L. J. Stal and P. Caumette
Microbiology of the Avian Egg (1994). Edited by R. G. Board and R. Fuller
The Mycota (Volume 1): Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality (1994). Edited by J. G. H. Wessels and F. Meinhardt
Born Disease (1995). Edited by H. Koprowski and W. I. Lipkin
Molecular Pathogenesis of Surgical Infections (1994). Edited by T. Wadström, I. A. Holder and G. Kronvall
Natural Antimicrobial Systems and Food Preservation (1994). Edited by V. M. Dillon and R. G. Board
Bacterial Pathogenesis of Plants and Animals: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms (1994). Edited by J. L. Dangl
Normal Microflora (1995). By G. W. Tannock
Mucosal Immunology: Intraepithelial. Lymphocytes (Advances in Host Defense Mechanisms, Volume 9) (1993). Edited by H. Kiyono and J. R. McGee     

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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Mead and Samoa. Tb Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By Derek Morality as a Biological Phenomenon. The Presuppositions of Sociobiological Research. Edited by Gunther S. Stent Lumsden, Charles J. & Edward 0. Wilson. Genes, Mind, and Culture, The Coevolutionary Process The Extended Phenotype. The Gene as the Unit of Selection. By Richard Dawkins. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman The growth of Biological Thought. Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. By Ernst Mayr. The Building of Brjtish Social Anthropology.W. H. R. Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898–1931.By Ian Langham Abstracts in German Anthropology. Edition Herodot, Gottingen North American Indian Studies. European Contributions. Edited by Pieter Hovens Schierle, Sonja. Funktion einer Survival School fur Stadtische Indianer. Heart of the Earth Survival School: Indianische Alternativschde in Minneapolis, Minnesota Der Tram als Religiose Erfahrung. Untersuchtunder Dargestellt am Beispiel der Irokesen. By Iris Anna Die Felsbilder Neuseelands. By Gottfried Kreuzer and Michael Dunn Jahrbnch des Museums fur Volkerkunde zuLeipzig. Asienwissenschaftliche Beitrage. Edited by Eberhardt Richter and Manfred Taube Mitteilungeu aus dem Museum fur VGlkerkunde zu Leipzig Die Seri hdianer von Sonora, Mexico. By John Skalle Practice and Progress. British Sociology 1950–1980. Edited by Philip Adams World-Systems Analysis. Theory and Methodology. By Terence K. Hopkins The Uses of Social Researck Soeid Investigation in Public Policy-Making. By Martin Bulmer. A Primer on Ethnomethodology. By Kenneth Building Feminist Theory. Essays from Quest, a Feminist Quarterly. By the Quest Staff. Longman Women and Splice. Ground Rules and Social Maps. Edited by Shirley Ardener Malinowski in Mexico. The Economics of a Mexican Market System. By Bronislaw Malinowski Food, Ecology, and Culture. Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices. Edited by J. R. K. Robson. Gordon and Breach Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. Edited by Carol P. MacCormack. Aboriginal Conception Beliefs. By Charles P. Mountford, with a Foreword by W. E. H. Stanner Aboriginal Man Adapting. The Human Biology of Australian Aborigines. By R. L. Kirk Coastal Archaeology in Eastern Australia. Proceedings of the 1980 Valla Conference on Australian Prehistory. Edited by Sandra Bowdler A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. By Peter Austin The Mayi Languages of the Queensland Gulf Country. By Gavan Breen. My Country of the Pelican Dreaming. The Life of an Australian Aborigine of the Gadjerong, Grant Ngabidj, 1904–1977 Australian Aborigines. The languages and customs of several tribes in the western district of Victoria. By James Dawson. The Diari. By J. G. Reuther. Wreck Bay: An Aboriginal Fishing Community. By Brian J. Egloff. All That Dirt. Aborigines 1938. Edited by Bill Aboriginal Administration in Western Australia,1886–1905. By Leslie R. Marchant. Aboriginal Land Rights. A Handbook. Edited by Nicolas Peterson. The Time of Darkness. Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea. By R. J. Rapanni: Tradition and Survival on Easter Island. By Grant McCall. Sydney, George Allen The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea. By Patricia Hay and Margaret Tuckson.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
INFECTION IN THE ORTHOPAEDIC PATIENT (1989). Edited by R. Coombs & R.H. Fitzgerald Jr.
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MICROBIAL ADHESION (1989). Edited by L. Switalski, M. Hook & E.H. Beachey.
NEW STRATEGIES FOR ORAL IMMUNIZATION (1989). Current Topics in Microbiology and immunology 146. Edited by J. Mestecky & J.R. McGhee.
BIOHAZARDS MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK (1989). Edited by Daniel F. Liberman & Judith G. Gordon.
ASPERGILIUS SPECIES ON STORED PRODUCTS (1989). By Z. Kozakiewicz.
FOODBORNE BACTERIAL PATHOGENS (1989). Edited by M.P. Doyle.     

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Book reviews in this article. Evolution of the flora and fauna of and Australia Edited by W. R. Barker and P. J. M. Greenslade Ant—plant interactions in Australia, Geobotany 4 Edited by Ralf Buckley Lake Mcllwaine, the eutrophication and recovery of a tropical African lake Edited by J. A. Thornton, Dr. W. Junk The ecology of the Wye. Monographiae Biologicae 50 . R. W. Edwards and M. P. Brooker     

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BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION . By M. H. M artin & P. J. C oughtrey
PLANT CELL STRUCTURE AND METABOLISM . 2nd edn. By J. L. H all , T. J. F lowers & R. M. R oberts
PLANT CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE—A LABORATORY MANUAL . By J. R einert & M. M. Y eoman
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 12A. PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY I. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTM . Edited by O. L. L ange , P. S. N obel , C. B. O smond & H. Z eigler
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, NEW SERIES, VOLLIME 12B. PHYSIOLOGICAL PLANT ECOLOGY II. WATER RELATIONS AND CARBON ASSIMILATION . Edited by O. L. L ange , P. S. N obel , C. B. O smond & H. Z iegler
THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT . Edited by H. S mith & D. G rieson
SIMULATION OF PLANT GROWTH AND CROP PRODUCTION . Edited by F. W. T. P enning D e V ries & H. H. V an L aar
TRENDS IN PHOTOB1OLOGY . Edited by C. H elene , M. C harlier , TH. M ontenay -G arestier & G. L austriant
VICIA FAB A : PHYSIOLOGY AND BREEDING . Edited by R. T hompson
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANT ECOLOGY 2nd edn. By J. R. E therington