Der Stoffwechsel der Pflanzen

Abstract

THE great advances that have been made in recent years in research into the leading principles and fundamental facts of the physiology of plants have made it necessary to specialise in particular directions, and the literature of the subject shows in consequence a tendency to deal with two aspects of the general life of plants almost entirely apart from one another. Of these the first embraces the phenomena of the individual life; the second, the relations of the individual to the conditions of its environment. In the present volume Dr. Nathansohn has undertaken to deal almost exclusively with the former of these problems, and has set before himself the task of discussing the present position of the metabolic phenomena characteristic of the green plant. The book is not intended to displace the standard text-books on the subject, but to deal more exhaustively than is possible in the latter with the gradual unfolding of knowledge and the gathering together of the mass of detail which has been accumulating for the past decade or longer.

Der Stoffwechsel der Pflanzen.

By Prof. A. Nathansohn. Pp. viii + 472. (Leipzig: Quelle and Meyer, 1910.) Price 12 marks.