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Synopsis The book entitled 'Morphology and Anatomy of Roots' is the third book under the "Advances in Plant Morphology and Anatomy Series" and is a compilation work and embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the fundamental facts and aspects of morphology and anatomy. The purpose of the book is to provide students an authoritative and uptodate text in a very simple way, easy to grasp by those who do not have strong background of this subject. The present text provides a background of facts, terminology and internal structure of common plants. Much emphasis has been laid on root.Main objective of the present book is to provide a comprehensive and well illustrated account of the prescribed subject.Main Contents include: Preface, The Root, Modification of Roots, The Roots and Soil, The Roots and Water, The Roots and Shoots, Root infecting Fungi, Saprophytic Root-Infecting Fungi, Root Infecting Fungi in Infected Host Tissues, and Principles of Root Disease Control.