Book description
A stunning landmark co-publication between the American Society of
Plant Biologists and Wiley-Blackwell.
The Molecular Life of Plants presents students with an
innovative, integrated approach to plant science. It looks at the
processes and mechanisms that underlie each stage of plant life and
describes the intricate network of cellular, molecular, biochemical
and physiological events through which plants make life on land
possible. Richly illustrated, this book follows the life of the plant,
starting with the seed, progressing through germination to the
seedling and mature plant, and ending with reproduction and
senescence. This "seed-to-seed" approach will provide
students with a logical framework for acquiring the knowledge needed
to fully understand plant growth and development.
Written by a highly respected and experienced author team The
Molecular Life of Plants will prove invaluable to students
needing a comprehensive, integrated introduction to the subject across
a variety of disciplines including plant science, biological science,
horticulture and agriculture.
Russell Jones
was born in Wales and completed his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent one year as a postdoctoral
fellow at the Michigan State University before being appointed to the
faculty of the Department of Botany at the University of California at
Berkeley in 1966. He is now a Professor of the Graduate School at UC-Berkeley.
Helen Ougham has a B. A. in Natural Sciences from the
University of Cambridge and a Ph. D. in Biochemistry from the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has carried out research in
plant science for over 25 years at the Institute of Grassland and
Environmental Research and Aberystwyth University, and she teaches
regularly on graduate courses in genetics and genomics at the
University of Birmingham and in crop science at the International
Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Zaragoza.
Howard Thomas studied at Aberystwyth University and is a DSc in
the University of Wales. He was head of cell and molecular biology
research and member of the management board at the Institute of
Grassland and Environmental Research. He has held visiting
professorships at the Universities of California, Bern and Zurich and
is currently Emeritus Professor of Biology at Aberystwyth University.
Susan Waaland earned a B. A. in Biology at Earlham College in
Indiana and a Ph. D. in Botany at the University of California at
Berkeley. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Washington and continued there as a faculty member in Botany and
Biology. She spent a year in the Botany Department at the University
of California at Davis through the NSF Visiting Professorships for
Women Program. She is now an Emeritus Lecturer in Biology at the
University of Washington.
