Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants
by Nicholas Harberd

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A brilliant evocation of the beauty of the natural world and an exhilarating explanation of its secret genetic workings.

Seed to Seed is part field notebook, part sketchbook and part diary. Built upon a narrative of the passing seasons of 2004, it relates that narrative to the life history of an ‘iconic’ plant. It gives a description of what is ‘seen’ and of the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie the visible events in the plant’s life, and tells the story of the last ten years of scientific discoveries in Nicholas Harberd’s own laboratory as the team works on decoding the genome of a basic plant, thale crress — the fruit-fly of the plant world.

This is a book for the general reader written by a scientist, passionate about his subject, who decided to get out into the open air and use the discoveries of the laboratory to explain the secret workings of the natural world.

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Weight:	0.51 kg
Price:	CDN$ 39.95 (US$ 38.88)

ISBN-10:	0747570396
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780747570394
Author:	Nicholas Harberd
Publisher:	Bloomsbury London
Publication Date:	2006
Pages:	311 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 1/2 x 5 3/4
Binding:	Hardback