Environment and Plant Development Being “Klima und Boden in ihrer Wirkung auf das Pflanzenleben”

Abstract

The keynote of this book is the author's invitation to the student to go out into the field and to study the living plant in its natural surroundings as well as the natural environment of the plant. He pays full tribute to investigations which have been conducted in the laboratory, but he carries laboratory research in plant physiology, with its many limitations, into the field, where the life processes of plants, though more difficult to study, can be investigated under entirely natural conditions. He emphasises that records obtained of a plant's behaviour at any given time or at stated intervals do not reveal the many fluctuations which the plant undergoes during the whole period of the day, for plant environments experience more widely different ranges and variations of climate than those recorded by the usual meteorological instruments.

Environment and Plant Development. Being "Klima und Boden in ihrer Wirkung auf das Pflanzenleben".

By Prof. Dr. Henrik Lundegårdh. Translated and edited from the second German edition by Eric Ashby. Pp. xii + 330 + 8 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1931.) 24s. net.