Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology

This 2005 book is an exciting exploration of a century of scientific discovery.

The fourth of five histories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington describes the development of the Department of Plant Biology. From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, the department has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular biology. Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs.From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular biology that sits today on the campus of Stanford University. In the last hundred years it has witnessed immense changes in biological thinking, and been at the forefront of innovative research. This fourth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution touches on the tangled beginnings of ecology, the baroque complexities of photosynthesis, the great mid-century evolutionary synthesis and the adventurous start of the plant molecular revolution.