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Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we use them to our advantage in a vast number of ways. This is a lively, nontechnical account of how green plants live, grow and...reach for the sun. It covers everything you need or want to know about plants, including how plants satisfy their nutritional and energy needs, how they direct and promote their growth, development and death, and how they react to the daily and seasonal variations and stresses in their environments. Finally, the author describes how they attract and repel other living organisms and how we exploit them for our own use in food and medicine. From their ability to take energy from sunlight to make their own food to their amazing range of life-sustaining, death-defying strategies, John King explains why plants dominate our planet. This is not just a book for avid gardeners and naturalists. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand why the earth is green.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521587389
eBay Product ID (ePID)95992729
Product Key Features
Number of Pages244 Pages
Publication NameReaching for the Sun: How Plants Work
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiology, Psychiatry
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn King
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight385 g
Item Width151 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJohn King
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- 20 Oct, 2016
amazing information
a most informative book on the understanding of plantsVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
