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Excerpt from Contributions to Plant Physiology The work of this department has thus far been exclusively graduate work, so that all of our students are intellectually rather mature. The scarcity of opportunities for carrying on advanced work in plant physiology, together with the fact that numerous educational institutions offer opportunity for ele mentary academic courses in this and the related subjects, have made it appear undesirable to institute undergraduate courses here. Experience seems to show, furthermore, that the intellectual power of graduate students is greater among those who have migrated from one institution to another, than it is among those who have performed their undergraduate work in the same institution as that in which graduate work is undertaken. Whether a causal relation is mainly involved here is questionable, for the very fact of student migration generally bespeaks a serious purpose and a definite aim; but it is also undoubtedly true that student migration tends strongly to prevent and to obliterate provincial traits of men tal character, and to give to the student who has thus migrated one or more times a more extensive series of in terests and a deeper appreciation of relative values. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in the study of plant adaptation, evolution, and ecosystem function. The phytotron, an integrated complex of controlled-environment greenhouse and laboratory spaces, was invented by Frits W. Went at the California Institute of Technology in the 1950s, setting off a worldwide laboratory movement, and transforming the plant sciences. Sharon Kingsland explores this revolution through a comparative study of work in the United States, France, Australia, Israel, the USSR, and Hungary--in the latter two, offering new interpretations of the response to Lysenkoism in Communist states. These advances in botanical research energized physiological plant ecology. Case studies explore the development of phytotron spin-offs such as mobile laboratories, rhizotrons, and ecotrons. Scientific problems include the significance of plant emissions of volatile organic compounds, symbiosis between plants and soil fungi, and the discovery of new pathways for photosynthesis as an adaptation to hot, dry climates. The advancement of knowledge through synthesis is a running theme: linking disciplines, combining laboratory and field research, and moving across ecological scales from leaf to ecosystem. The book also charts the history of modern scientific responses to the emerging crisis of food insecurity in the era of global warming.
For review see: J.H. Westerman, in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, jrg. 50 (1975); p. 146.