Abstract
THE genetics of sex in plants is probably more complicated than in animals. It is even doubtful how far sex phenomena are comparable in the two kingdoms. Certainly they have diversified along different lines with the greater individual unity and specialisation in the higher animals as contrasted with the less clearly defined individuality of the higher plants, which have often the power of vegetative multiplication in addition to, or even almost replacing, sexual reproduction. It is only a few years since sex chromosomes were discovered in seed-bearing plants, and the unsolved problems of ‘sex’ in the Cryptogams and in hermaphrodite, monœcious, and polygamous Phanerogams are manifold.
Bestimmung, Vererbung und Verteilung des Geschlechtes bei den höheren Pflanzen.
Von C. Correns. (Handbuch der Vererbungswissenschaft, herausgegeben von E. Baur und M. Hartmann, Lieferung 3 (II. c), Band 2.) Pp. iv + 138. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1928.) 19.20 gold marks.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 569 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122569a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122569a0