• Contains over 5,500 entries on all aspects of botany
• Coverage includes biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earth sciences
• One-third of entries devoted to taxonomic groups from bacteria and fungi to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants
• Broad range of subjects covered in an accessible style

Readership: Students, amateur botanists and naturalists, the general reader with an interest in botany.

"...a very useful first dictionary for biologists with an interest in plants..." - Alan Cadogan, Journal of Biological Education, Vol. 41(4)

Preface
Contents
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Endangered Plants
The Universal Genetic Code
The Geologic Time-Scale
SI Units