By Susan W. Nicolson,Massimo Nepi,Ettore Pacini

ISBN-10: 1402059361

ISBN-13: 9781402059360

ISBN-10: 9048174813

ISBN-13: 9789048174812

Nectar is an important present provided by way of crops to pollinating animals. This booklet is a latest and interdisciplinary textual content on nectar and nectaries, brought on via the growth of data in ecological and molecular fields, and the robust fresh curiosity in pollination biology. the themes coated fluctuate extensively: they comprise historic facets, the constitution and ultrastructure of nectaries and relationships to plant systematics, the dynamics of nectar secretion, nectar chemistry and the molecular biology of defence proteins, and more.

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