Alice in the land of plants
Subtitle: biology of plants and their importance for planet earth
By: Yiannis Manetas
Edition: [English ed.].
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783642283376
Subjects: Plants; Botany; Popular works; Plant ecology
Other titles: Biology of plants and their importance for planet earth
Work titles: Ti tha evlepe hē Alikē stē chōra tōn phytōn. English
Notes: Originally published in Greek: Hērakleio : Panepistēmiakes Ekdoseis Krētēs [i.e. Crete University Press], 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Basic plant organization : how it differs from that of animals; title: Why trees are almost immortal and other related issues; title: Short evolutionary history of plants; title: Sex in nonmotile organisms; title: The world through the eyes of plants; title: The defense of a stationary organism; title: Symbioses galore; title: Deviations from the basic biological type; title: Are plants intelligent organisms after all?; title: Epilogue.