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Representing a wide range of scientific disciplines from ecology, evolution, molecular biology, physiology, and developmental biology, this book demonstrates the wide range of viewpoints from which plant galls can be studied. The book considers the latest issues, covering questions of classification, coevolution, ecology, physiology, and plant genetic engineering. As galls are of immense interest and debate, this book will enhance the quality of discussion surrounding these phenomena. An up-to-date picture of current topics in gall biology Multi-disciplinary biological information Highly topical subject in relation to coevolution

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Author:   Michèle A. J. Williams (Taxonomic mycologist, Taxonomic mycologist, International Mycological Institute, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   49
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.908kg
ISBN:  

9780198577690

ISBN 10:   0198577699
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   06 October 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Plant galls - a perspective, Michele A.J. Williams; agrobacterium-induced crown gall and hairy root diseases - their biology and application to plant genetic engineering, M.R. Davey et al; gall-causing rust fungi, T.F. Preece and A.J. Hick; European exobasidiales and their galls, Bruce Ing; the lichen thallus - a symbiotic phenotype of nutritionally specialized fungi and its response to gall producers, D.L. Hawksworth and R. Honegger; proales werneckii - a gall-causing rotifer, B.M. Spooner; structure and systematics of eriophyid mites (acari - eriophyoidea) and their relationship to host plants, Jan Boczek and D.A. Griffiths; thrips and gall induction - a search for patterns, Laurence A. Mound; interactions between trichochermes walkeri (homoptera - psylloidea) and other homoptera on Rhamnus catharticus, I.F.G. McLean; galls and the evolution of social behaviour in aphids, W.A. Foster and P.A. Northcott; a breadfruit amongst the dipterocarps - galls and atavism, R.M. Jenkins and D.J. Mabberley; gall midges (cecidomyiidae) - classification and biology, Keith M. Harris; risk of parasitism on taxomyia taxi (diptera - cecidomyiidae) in relation to the size of its galls on yew, taxus baccata, Margaret Redfern and Robert Cameron; studies on host plant resistance in rice to the gall midge Orseolia oryzae, I. David R. Peries; parasitoids as a driving force in the evolution of the gall size of Urophora on cardueae hosts, H. Zwolfer and J. Arnold-Rinehart; life cycle strategies in a guild of dipteran gall formers on the common reed, Luc De Bruyn; induction and development of the bean gall caused by Pontania proxima, I.J. Leitch; a willow gall from the galler's point of view, R.N. Higton and D.J. Mabberley; assemblages of herbivorous chalcid wasps and their parasitoids associated with grasses - problems of species and specificity, Michael F. Claridge and Hassan Ali Dawah; the ecology of the pea galls of Cynips divisa, Francis Gilbert et al; the biogeography and population genetics of the invading gall wasp Andricus quercuscalicis (hymenoptera - cynipidae), P.J. Sunnucks et al; the communities associated with the galls of Andricus quercuscalicis (hymenoptera - cynipidae) an invading species in Britain - a geographical view, K. Schonrogge et al; the population dynamics of the gall wasp Andricus quercuscalicis, Rosemary S. Hails; mineral nutrition of galls induced by Diplolepis spinosa (hymenoptera - cynipidae) on wild and domestic roses in central Canada, Giuseppe Bagatto and Joseph D. Shorthouse; biochemical modification of the phenotype in cynipid galls - cell membrane lipids, Margret H. Bayer; the fossil record of leaves with galls, Andrew C. Scott et al.

Reviews

Technically, the book is of excellent quality with instructive tables and schemes and clear photos. Because of its price it can be recommended to libraries and individuals crazy about this fascinating field of biology. R. Beiderbeck, Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol. 147, 1996

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