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Out of the egg

3 October 1998

A curious cover (rhododendron hatching out of egg) and muddy pictures let
down Stephen Howell’s Molecular Genetics of Plant Development. Otherwise, this
looks to be a useful textbook: the presentation of plant development in
molecular genetic terms. Published by Cambridge University Press, £24.95,
ISBN 0521587840.

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