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Understanding flowers and flowering: an integrated approach
Understanding flowers and flowering: an integrated approach.B. Glover 2007.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. £32.50 (paperback). 227 pp.
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Understanding flowers and flowering provides a very useful and up-to-date review of floral biology. Its aim is to integrate recent molecular and genetic data with an evolutionary and ecological perspective, much of which is very much older. In this it succeeds admirably, although in the process it comes to no firm conclusions and establishes quite clearly that there is much more to be known.
The first section covers the evolution of flowers and provides a historical perspective on the study of flowering. This amply
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