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Maiti et al. provide students, researchers, and professionals of agricultural science, applied botany, and crop ecology and botany with a manual on crop plant anatomy that has an applied approach to adaptation and productivity. They address anatomy in relation to crop management, including the origin and development of crop anatomy, the relevance of anatomical studies in modern crop science, techniques of study, and general anatomy; anatomical descriptions of the major crop plants (cereals, pulses like chickpeas and beans, and oil, fiber, and vegetable crops); anatomical changes in adaptation to environments (in defense against biotic stresses and for drought and waterlogging stress tolerance); and the link between anatomy and productivity, including to harvest higher energy, for better reproduction efficiency, and for higher productivity. Throughout, they show how simple, low-cost light microscopy of hand sections can be used for rapid identification of anatomical features and for selection of genotypes under different environments, and they cite examples from research. Knowledge from a first course in botany is assumed. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
