Book notices

1 Pages·2002·0.29 MB·English

by  Adema, Frits

346 BLUMEA Vol. 47, No. 2, 2002
Booknotices
Afullreview ofbooks announcedin this section may be published in Blumeaata
laterdate.
R.DESALLE,G.GIRIBET&W.WHEELER(eds.): Techniques inMolecularSystematics
and Evolution.BirkhauserVerlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 2001. ix + 407 pp., illus.
ISBN 3-7643-6256-1(hard cover), 3-7643-6257-X(soft cover). Price: EUR 110.28
(hard cover), EUR72.90(softcover).
This bookis amanualdescribing techniques fordataacquisition andanalysis, and
protocols for molecularsystematics and evolution.The protocols guide thereader
step by step. Furthermoreit gives a broad theoreticalbackground on application,
informationonimportant websitesand prospectives for future approaches. In short,
acomprehensive accountofthestateoftheart inmolecularsystematics.
DAVIDJ.GIBSON: MethodsinComparative PlantPopulation Ecology. OxfordUni-
versityPress, Oxford, 2002. vi +344pp.ISBN0-19-850562-0.Price: GBP26.99.
This book is set up as a senior studentand Postdoc guide on methods in plant
population ecology. Afterdiscussingplantpopulation ecology asascience thevolume
guides studentsin designing andperforming experiments, collecting and(statistical)
analysis ofdata.For moreinsightfour case studies arediscussed inthebook.
Usefulforstudentsand teachers,alsoa good referencebookanda source ofrefer-
ences onplant population ecology andrelatedsubjects.
R.J. HENRY(ed.):Plantgenotyping. TheDNA fingerprintingofplants.CABIPub-
lishing, Wallingford, UK,2001.xiii +325 pp.ISBN0-85199-515-2.Price: GBP55.
Plantgenotyping examinestechniques andtoolsforplant DNA fingerprinting and
theirapplication intheanalysis ofwildplantpopulations,resource collections, germ-
plasm collectionsandplant breeding. Among thetechniques coveredare analysis of
single nucleotidepolymorphisms (SNPs), microsatelliteandAFLPanalysis. Special
attentionisalsopaidtonewtechniques such asmicroarraysandnon-gel basedanalysis
ofmarkers.Plantgenotyping canbeusedfortheidentificationofplants incommerce,
plantbreeding andresearch.
FritsAdema