Plant Growth Author:Black & Edelman This book treats an essentially complex subject with great clarity and conciseness and provides a general appreciation and understanding of the problems of plant growth. — Emphasizing that plant growth is the result of the interaction of a number of separate factors, the authors open their study with a discussion of the measurement and pattern of... more » growth; they examine its occurrence in the plant as a whole as well as the changes it causes in the single cell. They then proceed to an investigation of the internal control exercised in the plant by phytohormones and other growth regulators, introducing research findings on how these hormonal mechanisms control developmental processes. Environmental factors are also considered as are the practical implications of these studies for agriculture.« less