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Annals of Botany 2008 101(4):613-614; doi:10.1093/aob/mcm330
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Handbook of Plant Science

Handbook of Plant Science
K. Roberts ed. 2007.
Chichester, UK: John Wiley &
Sons Ltd. £250 (2-volume
hardback). 1645 pp.

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At a bookshelf-bending 4·5 kg, a bank-balance-denting £250, edited by a highly distinguished plant scientist, and released in the publisher's bicentenary year, you are entitled to expect something really special from this Handbook of Plant Science (HoPS). However, on reading in the front matter that HoPS ‘re-publishes a selection of recent and topical articles from Wiley's landmark [internet-based] Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS)’ I wondered if there really could be anything special about this hard-copy collection. However, I was initially reassured by the Preface, which explains that the Editorial Advisory Board (all from the John Innes Centre, UK) commissioned new peer-reviewed articles for HoPS to fill in gaps in the existing plant-related ELS articles. So, something new and therefore special was in prospect after all.

In view of the enormity of present-day plant science, an editorial decision was taken . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nigel Chaffey

E-mail n.chaffey@bathspa.ac.uk


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