Overview
- Provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date text on plant anatomy
- Reveals the significance of plant anatomy to other fields
- Written by a highly-qualified team of biological scientists
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Keywords
About this book
Intended as a text for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students and as a potential reference, this broad-scoped resource is extensive in its educational appeal by providing a new concept-based organization with end-of-chapter literature references, self-quizzes, and illustration interpretation. The concept-based, pedagogical approach, in contrast to the classic discipline-based approach, was specifically chosen to make the teaching and learning of plant anatomy more accessible for students. In addition, for instructors whose backgrounds may not primarily be plant anatomy, the features noted above are designed to provide sufficient reference material for organization and class presentation. This text is unique in the extensive use of over 1150 high-resolution color micrographs, color diagrams and scanning electron micrographs. Another feature is frequent side-boxes that highlight the relationship of plant anatomy to specialized investigations in plant molecular biology, classical investigations, functional activities, and research in forestry, environmental studies and genetics, as well as other fields.
Each of the 19 richly-illustrated chapters has an abstract, a list of keywords, an introduction, a text body consisting of 10 to 20 concept-based sections, and a list of references and additional readings. At the end of each chapter, the instructor and student will find a section-by-section concept review, concept connections, concept assessment (10 multiple-choice questions), and concept applications. Answers to the assessment material are found in an appendix. An index and a glossary with over 700 defined terms complete the volume.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Richard Crang, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (cell biology, microscopy, anatomy)
Dr.Sheila Lyons-Sobaski, Associate Professor, Albion College, Albion, Michigan (genetics, ecology, anatomy)
Dr. Robert Wise, Professor, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh (physiology, anatomy)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Anatomy
Book Subtitle: A Concept-Based Approach to the Structure of Seed Plants
Authors: Richard Crang, Sheila Lyons-Sobaski, Robert Wise
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77315-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77208-0Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77315-5Published: 30 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 725
Number of Illustrations: 123 b/w illustrations, 491 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Microbial Genetics and Genomics