Gibberellins (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

The cultivation of rice in Japan has suffered from damage caused by baka nae disease, in which rice seedlings show abnormal growth (elongation) as the result of infection by a plant pathogen. Investigation of the taxonomy of this pathogen led to the commencement of gibberellin (GA) research among Japanese plant pathologists, who later identified it as Gibberella jujikuroi, its other name being Fusarium moniliforme. In 1926, Kurosawa demon strated the occurrence of an active principle in the culture media of fungus that showed the same symptoms as those of the rice disease. In 1938, this finding was followed by the successful isolation of the active principles as crystals from the culture filtrate. This was achieved by the Japanese agri cultural chemists Yabuta and Sumiki, of The University of Tokyo, who named these active principles gibberellins A and B. Following World War II, this discovery attracted the interest of scientists around the world, and research on GA was pursued on a worldwide scale. One of the most outstanding discoveries in GA research after the isolation of GA as the metabolite of the plant pathogen must be the isolation and characterization of GAs from tissues of higher plants by the MacMillan group, West and Phinney, and the Tokyo University group in 1958 and 1959. Thus, GAs have been recognized as one of the most important classes of plant hormones."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1991
Editors:	Nobutaka Takahashi • Bernard O. Phinney • Jake MacMillan
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	426
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-7754-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4612-7754-X
Barcode:	9781461277545

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