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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

My daughter completed a biology degree at Royal Holloway a short
while back, and none of her textbooks covered that.

Did she do any courses specifically on Botany? (Though Campbell, Biology
(4th edn of 1977) has if anything more detail. Perhaps with the growth
of molecular biology over the last 30 years other stuff has been
displaced from the courses.

Yup. You could be right about the reason.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.