This fundamental guide to understanding plant structure offers plant scientists, plant biologists and horticulturalists - in practice, in academic life and in training - a combination of concise scientific text and superb color photographs and line drawings. It is designed as a tool for teaching and revision at undergraduate and graduate levels, as a complement to traditional textbooks and as a general reference for professionals and researchers.

The book, containing over 380 illustrations, deals with the development and mature form of plants, focusing on structure at the anatomical, histological and fine structure levels. Appropriate emphasis is given to plants of economic importance.