The penguin dictionary of botany
Edited by Stephen Blackmore
- England Puffin books 1984
- 390p.
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This dictionary covers both the pure and the applied aspects of the subject and such related fields as agriculture and horticulture. Encyclopaedic in form and with an extensive cross-referencing system, it contains substantial articles on major terms and concepts as well as shorter articles, ranging from physiology to cell biology, microbiology to horticulture and genetics to plant pathology.