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To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his
immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The
monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and
grasps it, handles it delicately with the fingers or more forcibly
with the hand, scans the various surfaces with the fin ger pads,
and finally identifies it. If we compare this monkey's adroitness
and discriminative capacities with our own, at once we have a
concise statement of important biological similarities and
differences among primates. While there are species diffe rences in
the functional anatomy of the hand, in tactile sensibi lity, and in
the control of hand movements, these are relatively minor. The real
difference in the dexterity of the two species relates to the
complexity of the task that is executed: no monkey, and for that
matter only one man in a century, paints a Guernica, although an
astute investigator can readily teach the monkey to flourish a
brush and paint a few strokes. The goal of the symposium, of which
this book is a summary, was to examine current knowledge of those
cortical mecha nisms that determine the sensorimotor functions of
the hand that are common to man and the monkey - mechanisms
accessible to analysis by recording the responses of single
cortical neurons while the monkey explores and manipulates his
surroundings."
The overall scope of this new series will be to evolve an
understanding of the genetic basis of (1) how early mesoderm
commits to cells of a heart lineage that progressively and
irreversibly assemble into a segmented, primary heart tube that can
be remodeled into a four-chambered organ, and (2) how blood vessels
are derived and assembled both in the heart and in the body. Our
central aim is to establish a four-dimensional, spatiotemporal
foundation for the heart and blood vessels that can be genetically
dissected for function and mechanism. Since Robert DeHaan's seminal
chapter "Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Heart" published in
Organogenesis (Holt Rinehart & Winston, NY) in 1965, there have
been surprisingly few books devoted to the subject of
cardiovascular morpho genesis, despite the enormous growth of
interest that occurred nationally and inter nationally. Most
writings on the subject have been scholarly compilations of the
proceedings of major national or international symposia or multi
authored volumes, without a specific theme. What is missing are the
unifying concepts that can often make sense out of a burgeoning
database of facts. The Editorial Board of this new series believes
the time has come for a book series dedicated to cardiovascular mor
not only as an important archival and didactic reference phogenesis
that will serve source for those who have recently come into the
field but also as a guide to the evo lution of a field that is
clearly coming of age.
The overall scope of this new series will be to evolve an
understanding of the genetic basis of (1) how early mesoderm
commits to cells of a heart lineage that progressively and
irreversibly assemble into a segmented, primary heart tube that can
be remodeled into a four-chambered organ, and (2) how blood vessels
are derived and assembled both in the heart and in the body. Our
central aim is to establish a four-dimensional, spatiotemporal
foundation for the heart and blood vessels that can be genetically
dissected for function and mechanism. Since Robert DeHaan's seminal
chapter "Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Heart" published in
Organogenesis (Holt Rinehart & Winston, NY) in 1965, there have
been surprisingly few books devoted to the subject of
cardiovascular morpho genesis, despite the enormous growth of
interest that occurred nationally and inter nationally. Most
writings on the subject have been scholarly compilations of the
proceedings of major national or international symposia or multi
authored volumes, without a specific theme. What is missing are the
unifying concepts that can often make sense out of a burgeoning
database of facts. The Editorial Board of this new series believes
the time has come for a book series dedicated to cardiovascular mor
not only as an important archival and didactic reference phogenesis
that will serve source for those who have recently come into the
field but also as a guide to the evo lution of a field that is
clearly coming of age.
A. W. Livingston (1821-98) was a Reynoldsburg, Ohio, tomato
seedsman who was the best known developer of tomato varieties in
the United States in the nineteenth century. First published in
1893, Livingston and the Tomato contains both descriptions and
drawings of the tomato varieties he developed. Livingston discusses
his methods and results and how to respond to tomato diseases and
pests. In addition, the book features over sixty tomato recipes,
including ones for slicing, frying, escalloping, baking, and
broiling tomatoes; as well as for tomato toast, custard, soup, pie,
preserves, figs, jam, butter, salad, sauce, and omelets.
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Plant Hormone Signal Perception and Transduction - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Plant Hormone Signal Perception and Transduction, Moscow, Russia, September 4–10, 1994 (Hardcover, Partly reprinted from PLANT GROWTH REGULATION 18, 1996)
A.R. Smith, A. W. Berry, N.V.J. Harpham, I.E. Moshkov, G.V. Novikova, …
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Studies of the perception and transduction of hormonal signals in
higher plants are relatively recent. Despite the rather small
number of researchers involved in comparison, say, to those
studying signalling in animals, plant scientists are becoming
attracted to this important field because of the fascinating
mechanisms being revealed and the recognition that any hope of
understanding the ways in which the growth and development of the
whole plant are controlled can only be based on an exploration of
the physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of these
mechanisms. The Moscow symposium that gave rise to the present book
drew many of the most active workers in the area, and many new
developments were revealed. Audience: Important reading for all
those interested in plant growth and development.
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