Dispersal in plants. A population perspective

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filaments' instead).Probably because of its 'bigger picture' view, and as curious as this may seem for a supposedly microtubule-exclusive tome, I found Collings' chapter to be the most useful -and interesting -one of the whole collection.Generally, all chapters appear to be very up-to-date reviews of their respective topics and will prove useful references to those wanting an update on those aspects.To test 'up-to-datedness' I scrutinized the number of references post-1st edition publication date (2000) in several chapters, and found 46 in Nick's Chapter 1, 55 in Funada's, 95 in Collings' (which is also a new chapter); 70 in Kobayashi and Kobayashi's, and 92 in Breviario's.This 2nd edition certainly passes that test with flying colours!I still have issues with the Index; it still seems far too short to be useful.But it is good to see that in this edition actin is indexed (with three entries), and even myosin is here mentioned, twice.But, bizarrely, the first entry is for g-tubulin; although even more curiously, neither anor b-tubulin get an entry.Whilst it is acknowledged that such collections will never have the immediacy of the latest Current Opinion review article, they do have the benefit of being arguably more reflective and more substantial contributions to our increasing knowledge of the plant cytoskeleton, and serve to crystallise that understanding at a particular point in time.In that last regard Plant microtubules: development and flexibility does a good job.