Sourav Mukherjee

Orchidaceous Plants: an Introduction to Orchidaceous Plants Sourav Mukherjee

Orchid flowers are wonderful creation of the Almighty. They are beautiful in their appearance and unique in several aspects like morphology, anatomy, development, association with fungi for their growth and pollination strategies. Since ages, voluminous researches in these fields have been carried, but we are still juvenile as far as the singularity is concerned. This book emphasizes some basic aspects of orchidaceous plant. Emphasis is also given to identify, cultivate and maintain these spectacular flowers at the net house without much knowledge of plant science. Incorporation of modern biotechnology in orchid research is also mentioned without going in much detail. There are 16 tables, 5 informative boxes and 46 figures explaining various peculiarities of orchidaceous plants. This book also provides a list of glossary related to orchid terminologies, good reference books and websites and some hundreds of publications that may quench the thirst of orchid lovers and researchers. This book would certainly be helpful the amateur orchidologist and students of plant biology.