PLANT STUDY OVERSEAS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 13

PLANT STUDY OVERSEAS

Tour By Mr S. Challenger

The relationship of chemical changes in plant tissue and plant propagation is the basis of studies which Mr S. Challenger, lecturer in charge of the horticulture department at Lincoln College, will ,make in Engand and in the United States in the next seven months.

Mr Challenger will spend most of three months and a half in Britain at the East Mailing research station in Kent, which is best known for its research on fruit trees. There he will learn techniques of biochemical analysis, working with Mr C. Barlow, the head of the plant physiology laboratory. Mr Challenger is interested in the cycle of chemical changes in plant tissue and its relationship to the ability of cuttings to take root He is specially interested in the internally - produced hormones in plants. At Purdue University, at Lafayette. Indiana, for about two months he will pursue a similar line of study with Dr. C. E. Hess, who is probably one of the foremost workers in this field in the world. Mr Challenger will spend about three weeks in Sweden, where he will study landscape design. He will also look at domestic landscaping in California.