Plant life comprises 99% of the earth's biomass (Bidwell (1974), Rand (1983)). The basic unit of a plant is a plant cell. Plant cells are formed at meristems, and then develop into cell types which ...

Although one of the earliest of biological disciplines, plant taxonomy remains an important and relevant aspect of modern botany. A disproportionate emphasis on the practice of plant taxonomy has to ...

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also ...

THE second edition of this standard work has been largely rewritten and considerably amplified, particularly in the chapters dealing with those sections of plant metabolism which have been ...