Genetics of Flowering Plants

Contents: I. Genes: 1. The Mendelian mechanism. 2. Gene action. 3. Development. 4. The nature of Mendelian genes. 5. Gene mutation. 6. Allele interaction. II. Gene systems: 7. Gene interaction. 8. Controlling genes. 9. Serial gene systems. 10. Multiple gene systems. 11. Polygenes. 12. Cytoplasmic inheritance. 13. Altered segregation. 14. Sex determination. 15. Mosaicism. III. Linkage systems: 16. The chromosome set. 17. Chromosomal rearrangements and linkage. 18. Multifactorial linkage. 19. Linkage between morphology and viability. 20. Linkage of functional gene systems. 21. Linkage of adaptive gene combinations. 22. Translocation heterozygotes. IV. Genetic systems: 23. The regulation of recombination. 24. The ecology of recombination systems. 25. Neoclassical genetics. Bibliography. Author Index. Organism Index. Subject Index.

"This book summarizes our present knowledge and understanding of the genetics of higher plants. There has been no book treatment of basic plant genetics in recent times, and such a synthesis has been much needed.

The focus in Genetics of Flowering Plants is on the nature and action of genes, gene systems, linkage systems, and genetic systems. There are chapters on sex determination, mosaicism, aberrant segregation ratios, multifactorial linkage, translocation heterozygotes, recombination systems, and many other topics. The book concludes with a short but provocative discussion of the place of plant genetics in biology. Wherever possible, the author relates the evidence of plant genetics to the findings and concepts in other branches of genetics-microbial genetics and drosophila genetics, for example."