The judges were especially complimentary about subject coverage, high quality illustrations, and a clarity of prose conducive to easy reading. Plants in Action explores basic principles underlying plant biology in natural and managed communities throughout Australasia. Postgraduate students as well as professional plant scientists will also find much useful source material in this textbook because the narrative is built on credible experiments and richly illustrated with original data. Numerous vignettes provide a human background to new knowledge that is readily transparent and structured for easy 'grazing'. In both name and actuality, Plants in Action embodies practical applications of plant science in nature and global commerce.
World markets are already crowded with high quality texts on plant physiology.
Basic principles are thus well covered, but neither application of principles, nor acknowledgment of Australasian contributions to plant science is well covered in texts from the northern hemisphere. Sample images will shortly be available for viewing. Sample images from Plants in Action Scanning electron micrograph. Cluster roots in Banksia serrata. Graph of mRNA abundance.