Edited by Michael Allaby
5500 entries
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of plant sciences available. The text has been fully revised. It gives wide coverage on topics including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earth sciences.
There is world wide coverage of taxonomic groups - one-third of the entries are devoted to taxa, from bacteria and fungi to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. This dictionary will be invaluable to students, amateur botanists and naturalists, and everyone with an interest in plants and their environments.
Michael Allaby is a well-known writer on science and the environment. He is General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History.
