Orchid Biology - Reviews and Perspectives, VII (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

A Personal Note I decided to initiate Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives in about 1972 and (alone or with co-authors) started to write some of the chapters and the appendix for the volume in 1974 during a visit to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Professor H. C. D. de Wit of Holland was also in Bogor at that time and when we discovered a joint interest in Rumphius he agreed to write a chapter about him. I visited Bangkok on my way home from Bogor and while there spent time with Professor Thavorn Vajrabhaya. He readily agreed to write a chapter. The rest of the chapters were solicited by mail and I had the complete manuscript on my desk in 1975. With that in hand I started to look for a publisher. Most of the publishers I contacted were not interested. Fortunately Mr James Twiggs, at that time editor of Cornell University Press, grew orchids and liked the idea. He decided to publish Orchid Biology: Reviews and Per spectives, and volume I saw the light of day in 1977. I did not know if there would be a volume II but collected manuscripts for it anyway. Fortunately volume I did well enough to justify a second book, and the series was born. It is still alive at present - 20 years, seven volumes and three publishers later. I was in the first third of my career when volume I was published."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1997
Editors:	J Arditti • Alec M. Pridgeon
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	394
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-4837-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant physiology > General Promotions
LSN:	90-481-4837-5
Barcode:	9789048148370

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