By King

ISBN-10: 0521518040

ISBN-13: 9780521518048

ISBN-10: 0521736684

ISBN-13: 9780521736688

From their skill to take advantage of strength from solar to make their very own foodstuff, to struggling with assaults from illnesses and predators, crops have advanced an grand variety of life-sustaining techniques. Written with the non-specialist in brain, John King's energetic usual historical past explains how vegetation functionality, from how they achieve power and nutrients to how they develop, boost and finally die. New to this version is a piece dedicated to vegetation and the surroundings, exploring how difficulties created by means of human actions, corresponding to worldwide warming, toxins of land, water and air, and lengthening ocean acidity, are impacting at the lives of vegetation. King's narrative offers an easy, hugely readable advent, with containers in every one bankruptcy supplying extra or extra complex fabric for readers looking extra element. He concludes that regardless of the demanding situations posed via transforming into environmental perils, vegetation will proceed to dominate our planet.

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