The most comprehensive reference addressing the core knowledge, techniques, and practical applications employed by plant scientists in research and industry.
List of Sections:
AgronomyBioethicsCell WallsCrop Protection/PathologyGenetic
ModificationGrowth regulatorsHorticulture production and
qualityPhotosynthesis and biochemistryPhysiology, production and
secondary productsPlant nutritionPlants and the
environmentPostharvest biology and stressReproduction and
biodiversityTissue Culture
Brian Thomas obtained his first degree in Botany and a PhD in Plant Physiology at UCW Aberystwyth. He worked as a Postdoctoral Scientist in Carleton University, Ottawa, and the University of Reading before becoming a research scientist at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute in Littlehampton, which subsequently became part of Horticulture Research International. He moved to Wellesbourne in 1995 where he was latterly a Research Director responsible for the Crop Improvement and Biotechnology Research Theme. He joined the University of Warwick in 2004 as part of Warwick HRI and became acting Head of Department 2009. He became a member of the School of Life Sciences in 2010 where he is currently Professor of Crop Development.
"The editors have done a fine job of keeping the language
scientific enough to make this valuable for working scientists,
providing abundant data, digrams of genes important in applied
plant biology, and technical measurements, while keeping the text
clear and simple...This is a very valuable work and libraries,
especially at universities, should strongly consider its purchase."
--Douglas Darnowski for Plant Science Bulletin, 2005
"This resource is timely as the interest and controversy heats up
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researches and students for a long time. This reference is suitable
for academic collections supporting horticultural, agricultural and
plant science programs." --E-Streams, 2004
"The resource consists of extensive overview articles as well as
shorter articles, more typical of standard encyclopaedic
resources...a well thought-out resource that will serve researchers
and students for long time." --Peggy Dominy, Information Services
Librarian, Drexel University Hagerty Library
"Very Specialized, this encyclopedia compiles information on
‘plants and how we make use of them’, and includes all aspects of
plant growth and development as well as biotechnology, genetic
engineering, ethics and related topics...Recommended." --M.S.
Muskiewicz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
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century." --Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2004
"Very specialized. Articles...provide extended detailed
treatment...Recommended." --Choice
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