PLANT BIOLOGY

• Main Authors: Rost, Thomas L. (Author), Barbour, Michael G. (Author), Stocking, C. Ralph (Author), Murphy, Terence M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Belmont, CA, Thomson/Brooks/Cole 2006
• Edition: SECOND EDITION
• Subjects: Botany
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• Physical Description: xvi, 603 pages some colour illustrations 28 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0534380611; 9780534380618

PLANT BIOLOGY, Second Edition provides a complete introduction to the science of plants, combining the most current, real-world examples with information on plant biodiversity and ecology, including topics like biotechnology, economic botany, and plant/human interactions. PLANT BIOLOGY begins with elements of botany that are most familiar to students: the structure, function, reproduction, physiology, and genetics of flowering plants. The evolutionary survey is then presented, with detail on the Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi, Bryophytes, early Tracheophytes, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms. The overall sequence of subjects builds from metabolism and plant function to reproduction, then from simpler to more advanced organisms, concluding with two ecological chapters. Each chapter has been written in a modular fashion, however, to allow them to be taught in any order. In this new edition, the biodiversity chapters provide the best-supported, most current phylogenetic view of the organisms. C