Abstract
For more than twenty years workers at the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers, New York, have been publishing papers on the factors influencing the germination and continued viability of seeds. Their investigations have been not only of academic interest, but also of practical significance to people who produce, market, and sow seeds ; and presumably it has been with this in mind that two of the senior workers concerned have now written a very brief summary of the Institute‘s work in this field. Farmers, gardeners and seedsmen will find this book giving, with a minimum of scientific terminology, confirmation, explanation and extension of much that they have discovered and guessed, and also some suggestive new facts.
Twenty Years of Seed Research at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
By Lela V. Barton William Crocker. Pp. 148 + 22 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1948.) 21s. net.
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CLAY, S. Twenty Years of Seed Research at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Nature 162, 594 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162594a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162594a0