Orchids: Science and Commerce
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Edition
1st. Ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8121102715
Length
xxxvi+521p., Tables; Figs
Subjects
The orchids are a group of extremely interesting plants which outnumber all the other plant groups in the Plant Kingdom. Numbering about 20,000 species, they exhibit pollination-related floral complexities, produce a large number of microscopic, and poorly organized seeds, and require a fungal endophyte (mycorrhiza) for their germination and growth in nature. The morphological, physiological, and genetic peculiarities inherent in this group of plants have ...