Evolutionary Trends in Flowering Plants

Explores the evolutionary trends in each major flowering plant part vegetative organs, flowers and inflorescences, fruits, and seeds. This book provide in detail the evolutionary trends on microsporangia, microspores, and pollen grains as well as megasporangia, mega spores, and the ovule, pollination, fertilization, and triple fusion. Review : Arman Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. In this concise volume, he explores the evolutionary trends in each major flowering plant part vegetative organs, flowers and inflorescences, fruits, and seeds. Concentrating chiefly on the main evolutionary trends, Takhtajan emphasizes those characteristics that are of a special systematic and evolutionary significance. Takhtajan examines microsporangia, microspores, and pollen grains as well as megasporangia, megaspores, and the ovule. Evolutionary trends in pollination, fertilization, and triple fusion are also covered. Evolutionary Trends in Flowering Plants is certain to become a classic reference for a wide range of biologists as well as for phylogenists, taxonomists, and paleobotanists. Armen Takhtajan is an advisor at the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad and the President of the All Union Botanical Society, From 1975 to 1981 he was President of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. He has written widely on morphology, evolutionary classification, and phytogeography. Praise for Evolutionary Trends in Flowering Plants: “Evolutionary Trends in Flowering Plants will command wide attention throughout the world. .. It is lucid, congent, and up to date.” Arthur Cronquist, New York Botanical Garden