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Plant anatomy: an applied approach
Plant anatomy: an applied approachD. F. Cutler, T. Botha, D. W. Stevenson 2008.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
£29·99 (paperback) 312 pp.
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An appreciation of anatomy is fundamental to an understanding of many aspects of plant biology, including the ecological and molecular ends of the spectrum. It is therefore a cause for concern that plant anatomy is increasingly marginalized in university biology courses. One way of trying to stem the decline is to promote an awareness of the wider value of the study of plant structure. This is what Cutler et al.'s Plant anatomy: an applied approach attempts.
The ten chapters and two Appendices of this comparatively slim volume cover much ground despite concentrating mostly on vegetative anatomy of angiosperms. The topics covered
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