Plant Teratology: The Handbook of Constructional Defects and Deviations in Flora

Plant teratology, a subject which is conveniently ignored in academic circles probably because it deals with the peripheral area of traditional botanical studies. Teratology being the study of developmental aberration in plants is the topic of hardcore botanists and plant spotters. Such a genre in academics was once popular in nineteenth century when advancements in genetics were unheard of but the tradition died down with scientists focusing other areas of botanical studies. Plant aberrations happen because of numerous reasons. They could be a result of genetic mutations, external physical or mechanical interventions, and ovarian disorders caused by the interaction of fungi or insects etc. with the plant. Apart from the advances in genetic understanding other advances in the interactions between insects and plants in the form of galls have also been properly studied by now which is something that Masters could only have suspected. The book has four exclusive sections with many subdivisions as parts of thereof. Thus an extremely elaborate book of its kind will not only serve as a valuable reference to library but all set to rouse new interest in the students of botany.