chapter, presentation consists of an unabating recitation in chronological order of the salient points from each one of the cited references. Unbearable repetition, absence of a logical flow of ideas and difficulty extracting the most significant concepts results. The autlhor provides essentially no integration or summarization of h1is material. Critical analysis of the data and conclusions are...

607 the past year or so. Althotuglh practical gene-transfer tlherapy may be only a distant reality, those interested in the past and current state of the art slhouild findl this book botlh interesting and(I informative. It contains some 35 papers (andl re-late(d discussionis) that were presentecl at a NATO-sponsored symposium helcl in Mol, Belgium, dluring September, 1970. As expected for a sym...

Auchter (1) wras the first to show that very little lateral nmovemiient of nutrient elemiients occurred in certain plants. The work of Caldwell (3) and McAMurtrey (7) also indicate(d a lack of lateral movemleint of mineral elements in the test plants used. From these studies, it seenms that there is a lack of lateral nmovement of nmineral nutrients in some plants. It was (lecidedl to test this ...

After screeninig several lhundlred cultures of fungi, actinomvcetes, aid bacteria isolated fromii various soils for plant growtlh regulating activity, a fungus culture. F7-2578 (identified later as Peneicilliumiit pufrpurresceiis), was found( whIiclh had a (lwNarfing effect on pea planits. A foliage spray of the culture filtrate inhibite(d the gro)wvth of the stemls, producing shortened interno...

A mixture of a carhoxylic acid type of cation exchange resin and a weakly basic anion exchange resin has been used successfully to control the edema of 42 patients wvith congestive heart failure andl the ascites of 14 patients with cirrhosis of the liver. Approximately one-third of the cation exchanger was supplied in the potassium cycle. Inclusion of the anion exchange resin resulted in a grea...