TY  - BOOK
AU  - Annett Börner
AU  - Fritz H. Schweingruber
AB  - This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality. The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific information is highlighted with short legends and labeled photographs, allowing readers to focus on the pictures to easily understand how the anatomical structures relate to genetic, ecological, decomposition and technical influences. It includes a chapter devoted to simple anatomical preparation techniques, and further chapters showing the cell content, cell walls, meristematic tissues and stem structures of all major taxonomic units and morphological growth forms in various ecological and climatic regions from subarctic to equatorial latitudes, as well as structures of fossil, subfossil and technically altered wood. This textbook appeals to students and researchers in the fields of plant anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, dendrochronology, history, plant pathology, and evolutionary biology as well as to technologists.
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73524-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: 27327
KW  - Plant meristems
KW  - Anatomy of pteridophyta
KW  - Plant ecology
KW  - Fossilization
KW  - Stem evolution
KW  - Plant morphology
KW  - Plant stem construction
KW  - Plant cell contents
KW  - Wood degradation
KW  - Plant cell walls
L1  - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-73524-5
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/49084
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783319735238
SN  - 9783319735245
TI  - The Plant Stem: A Microscopic Aspectnull
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