Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Volume 4 . Department of Plant Biology

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 on the campus of Stanford University. This fourth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution considers the beginnings of ecology complexities of photosynthesis great mid-century evolutionary synthesis and the start of the plant molecular revolution.