Fruit and Seed Production
Subtitle: Aspects of Environmental Physiology and Ecology (Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series)
Contributors: C. Marshall (Editor); J. Grace (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521373500
Subjects: Plant reproduction & propagation; Science/Mathematics; Plant Physiology; Science; Nature; Reproduction; Plants; Life Sciences - Botany; Plants - General; Fruit--Congresses; Fruit--Congresses Fruit--Congresses; Nature / Plants; Science / Botany; Science-Life Sciences - Botany; Fruit; Seeds; Congresses
First sentence: The life cycles of flowering plants can be generalized, with a few exceptions in which sexual reproductive capacity has apparently been lost to clonal vegetative reproduction or distorted by such devices as apomixis (Fig. 1).