CRC Press Plant Structure

This book is a fundamental guide to understanding plant structure offering plant scientists, plant biologists and horticulturalists in practice, academic life and in training. It includes a combination of concise scientific text and superb color photographs and drawings, focusing on structure at anatomical, histological and fine structure levels. Review Plant Structure is a stunning collection of anatomical images at the light-microscope level with informative accompanying text... It represents excellent value Annals of Biology, March 2010 Praise for the Previous Edition: The concept is remarkable...written to inform with maximum clarity and brevity. The Horticulturist From the Previous Edition: The author has succeeded in preparing material not only for students and professional biologists, but also for artists and interested lay people...Students will find the hundreds of full colour illustrations a welcome study resource...visually delightful. Trends in Plant Science" From the Back Cover This is a revised edition of a fundamental guide to understanding plant structure. The book deals with the development and mature form of plants, focusing on structure at anatomical, histological and fine structure levels. Appropriate emphasis is given to plants of economic importance. The book contains superb colour photos and drawings with over 194 new photos. Key elements of the revised book include: recent findings (supplemented by DNA analysis) on the classification of flowering plants; current concepts of plant wall structure; detailed description of eg. leaves as insectivorous traps; spines in cacti, desert plants adapted for water storage, saltmarsh and aquatic plants; a new section on asexual plant multiplication; additional bibliography and website resources.