Overview for Encyclopaedia of Plant Systematics (In 6 Volumes)
Encyclopaedia of Plant Systematics is the study of plant life and goes even beyond it to capture key life activities of fertilization and physiological evolution in plants of different groups and classes. To start with Encyclopaedia’s first volume focuses on Integrated Plant Systems & Basic Plant Systematics which is about Evolutionary Systematics, Phylogenic Ancestry and Taxonomic Systematics of Plants; Structural, Vascular and Metabolic Systematics and Development of Morphology. The evolutionary relationships are much pronounced in the middle two volumes of the encyclopaedia viz. Structural, Evolutionary and Behavioural Systematics of Plants, which is further divided into five sections.
The fourth and fifth volumes deal with the key plant activities which are of nutrition and reproduction (with special focus on alternative nutrition like carnivorous behaviour) activities and are named – Physiological Systematics: Alternative Nutrition System in Plants and Plant Reproductive Systematics and Effects of Cross-fertilisation. To top it all the final volume of the encyclopaedia has vast reference of research abstracts in Plant Systematics with a total of 596 of them, form all the top researchers around the world.
This makes the Encyclopaedia of Plant Systematics an indispensable reference work for all libraries in academic institutions, which student, teachers, and researchers would be delighted to consult.
M A Kidwai (Editor)
M A Kidwai, born 1945, is the author, co-author and editor of more than 20 books, including several illustrated works and about 110 research papers on plant taxanomy.
He migrated to USA after his doctorate from India to study and further his interest in plant geography and made notable attempts to reconcile Darwinian concepts of evolution. Apart from having developed an authority on Plant Systematics, he also worked on the cause and effects of plant relocation and dispersal.
Keki J Sawant (Editor)
Keki J Sawant is a system botanist who is also known for his interest in aerobiology and weed sciences. He has edited several books on natural sciences and plant morphology. Currently, he is working on a project relating to the Climatic Effects on the Morphology of Carnivorous Flora in Africa.
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