his text Flowering PlantEmbryology. This richly illustrated reference text, with morethan 350 figures and illustrations, presents general angiospermembryology as it applies to economically important plants. Theunique focus on economically important species increases therelevance of this book to today’s students and researchers inthe plant sciences. Lersten emphasizes the plant species that affect humanlivelihood, including weeds and other cultivated plants that areused for commercial products. Selected from the thousands ofeconomically important plants, the examples chosen for illustrationand discussion are familiar, especially to students from NorthAmerica, Northern Europe, and Japan. Although the emphasis of thisbook is economically important plants, the information withinapplies to almost all flowering plants.Extremely readable and well-written, this book is neither densenor academic in tone. Lersten treats topics with a uniformity ofstyle and organization that enhances comprehension. Terms arewell-defined and the derivation of each is explained to furtherfacilitate student learning. The book presents research results,hypotheses, and speculations about why things are as they are, withsupporting facts and specific examples that provide a firmfoundation for students’ understanding of embryologicaldiversity among economic plants.

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