PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 7

PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS

CANTERBURY MAN’S RESEARCH Dr. J. A. Veale, lecturer in agricultural botany at Canterbury Agricultural Lincoln, has resumed duties after two and a half years abroad, during which he was awarded the doctorate of philosophy of the University of London. Working principally at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Dr. Veale did research in fundamental

plant physiology, and in his thesis produced important new information on

bud and lateral reproduction in plants. Some of his findings contradicted existing theories. He was also interested in the control of flowering by daylength restriction. Dr. Veale investigated the age-old problem of why lateral buds and branches fail to grow until the tips have been removed. The other work concerned the control of flowering by variation of exposure to light and different temperatures. Most of Dr. Veale’s experimental work was done at the Chelsea Physic Gardens, the ancient centre of the Apothecary Society. He also visited most of the botanical and horticultural research establishments of Britain. Last July Dr. Veale attended the Intemational Botany Congress in Paris.