Plant Architecture and its Manipulat V17 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405121286)

Conventionally, architecture relates to buildings, embracing both art and science, and specifying both form and function. In scope, this closely matches the study of plant architecture. From an artistic perspective, we might marvel at the astonishing diversity of aesthetically pleasing plant structures, yet as scientists we know that, through natural selection, very little of form is dissociated from function. The origins of studies of plant architecture and their influences on human existence are steeped in history, but, from a 21st century perspective, the field has been transformed from a discipline of observation and description into one in which complex networks of genetic, chemical and environmental factors can be directly manipulated and modelled. Arguably, manipulation of plant architecture has been one of the greatest mainstays of plant improvement - perhaps second only to the discoveries of the nutritional requirements of plants

Author: Turnbull
ISBN-10: 1405121289
ISBN-13: 9781405121286
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2005
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d