This book provides a simplified description of the flowering at the molecular, biochemical, organelle, cell and organ levels of organization in plants, which contribute to the complex processes. The book contains chapters like Develop-mental stages of flowering, Control of flowering, photoperiod and flowering, Phytochrome and flowering, Vernalization, Flowering genes and floral induction, Florigen concept, biochemical events during flowering, Plant growth regulators and flowering: Indian context.

The text is intended for post- graduate study and for non- specialists in other disciplines who wish to understand flowering mechanism and control. References are mainly from the secondary or review literature, from which detailed arguments and the primary literature may be obtained. Several recent textbooks have considered more specialized aspects of flowering and there are many excellent reviews; this book is intended to point the reads to them.