Plant Anatomy
An Applied Approach
1. Edition March 2008
312 Pages, Softcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
This indispensable textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of all aspects of plant anatomy, emphasizing its application and relevance to modern botanical research. An accompanying CD-ROM provides high quality photographs and scanning electron microscope images. Laboratory exercises are also included on the CD-ROM, making this work an indispensable resource for lectures and laboratory classes.
This indispensable textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of all aspects of plant anatomy.
* Emphasizes the application of plant anatomy and its relevance to modern botanical research.
* Features expanded treatment on vegetative anatomy and additional material on functional anatomy.
* Includes a CD ROM of high quality photographs and scanning electron microscope images giving students access to the microscopic detail of plant structures essential to gaining a real understanding of the subject.
* Exercises for the laboratory are also included on the CD ROM making this work an indispensable resource for lectures and laboratory classes.
Introduction.
1. Morphology and tissue systems: the integrated plant body.
2. Meristems and meristematic growth.
3. The structure of xylem and phloem.
4. The root.
5. The stem.
6. The leaf.
7. Flowers, fruits, and seeds.
8. Adaptive features.
9. Economic aspects of applied plant anatomy.
10. Practical microtechnique.
Appendix 1 Selected study material.
Appendix 2 Practical exercises -The Virtual Plant.
Illustrated Glossary.
Index.
Ted Botha is Professor of Botany and was Head of Department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His research into plant structure and function is recognized internationally as well as locally, by the National Research Foundation. He serves on the organizing committees for several international plant structure-function groups, and is a former President of The South African Association of Botany. His contribution to teaching at Rhodes University was recognized through the award of the Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
Dennis Wm. Stevenson is currently Rupert Barneby Curator and Vice President for Botanical Science at the New York Botanical Garden. He also serves as editor of the journal Botanical Review, has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, and edited 11 books ranging from horticulture to paleobotany to genomics. He holds adjunct faculty positions at City University of New York, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and Yale University.