Orchids: Science and Commerce Promila Pathak, R. N. Sehgal, Navdeep Shekhar, Madhui Sharma, Anil Sood 521 pages 2001 Indisponível: solicite a sua inclusão na lista de espera através do email de contato: livros@finaorquidea.com Preço: Price outside Brazil:

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. Preface. 1. Professor S.P. Vij and his work/Promila Pathak. 2. John Lindley (1799-1865) and his role in orchid science: the great teacher and researcher/H.F. Oakeley. 3. Orchids: the world's most wondrous plants/Suman Kumaria and Pramod Tandon. 4. William Griffith and his Bhutanese Vanda species/Phillip Cribb, Nicholas Pearce and Yeshey Dorji. 5. Orchid diversity in India: an overview/D.K. Singh. 6. Morphological diversity of the orchids of Orissa/Sarat Misra. 7. A conspectus of orchids of Manipur: their status and conservation/A.S. Chauhan. 8. Orchids of Sikkim '“ a historical perspective/C. Sathish Kumar. 9. Phylogenetic evolution of the genus Calanthe/Genjiro Ishida and Kohji Karasawa. 10. Morphological variations in the genus Stelis/Kamezo Saito. 11. Investigation on ploidy of Cymbidium, Dendrobium, and Phalaenopsis cultivated in Japan using flow cytometer/Syoichi Ichihashi, Hiroshi Ito, Tatuya Oguri, and Juntaro Kato. 12. Cytospeciation and diversification in Indian orchids/Navdeep Shekhar, R.N. Sehgal and Neera Vaidya. 13. The inheritance of Albinism in Dendrobium orchids/Montakan Vajrabhaya and Thavorn Vajrabhaya. 14. Apercu Sur L'ovaire Des Orchidaceae De L' Anthese A La Maturite (in French)/Yvonne Veyret. 15. A survey of the ovary of Orchidaceae from Anthesis to its maturity (in English)/Yvonne Veyret. 16. The orchid Pollinarium- its development and ultrastructure/Veena Gupta and M.R. Vijayaraghavan. 17. The microtubular cytoskeleton during ovule and embryo development in orchids/E.C. Yeung, X.L. Ye and S.Y. Zee. 18. In Vitro propagation as an aid to conservation and commercialization of Indian orchids: seed culture/Promila Pathak, K.C. Mahant and Ashish Gupta. 19. In Vitro multiplication of orchids/Devinder Prakash and M.L. Chaudhary. 20. Species seedling flasks: an urgent need for Ex Situ conservation and sustainable economic utilization of the Western Ghats orchids/S. Seeni, A. Gangaprasad and S. William Decruse. 21. Orchid cryopreservation by using induced shoot Primordia and Protocorm '“ like bodies of tissue culture/Katsuhiko Kondo, Irina V. Tatarenko, Sindhu Balu Varghese, Yuji Iwai and Ken-ichiro Matsumoto. 22. Molecular approaches to orchid improvement/P.C. Deka and J. Devi 23. Micropropagation and Agrobacterium '“ mediated gene transformation of orchids/Yoshiyuki Niimi, Takahisa Hatano and Lie Chen. 24. Viral diseases of orchids and their management/Padma Ramachandran and Anupam Varma. 25. Commercialization of Indian orchids/P.S. Ahuja, Madhu Sharma and Anil Sood. 26. Cymbidiums of North-Eastern Himalayas/R.C. Upadhyaya and S.P. Das. 27. Plant tissue culture research and its commercialization in India/Suman Govil and Shrish C. Gupta. 28. Orchid commerce in India '“ guidelines for the new century/Udai C. Pradhan. Subject index