What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide To The Senses Of Your Garden - And Beyond - Brossura

Chamovitz, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 1851689702 ISBN 13: 9781851689705

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2013

Riassunto

How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant feel pain when you pluck a fruit from its vines? And does your favourite fern care whether you play Bach or the Beatles? Combining cutting-edge research with lively storytelling, biologist Daniel Chamovitz explores how plants experience our shared Earth - through sight, smell, touch, hearing, memory, and even awareness. Whether you are a green thumb, a science buff, a vegetarian, or simply a nature lover, this rare inside look at the life of plants will surprise and delight.

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“Thick with eccentric plant experiments and astonishing plant science... Delightful” - The Sunday Times

“Exhilarating” - The RHS Garden

“Elegantly written... Chamovitz lets us see plants in a new light, one which reveals their true wonder.” - The Guardian

“Chamovitz's book is pop science at its best, full of vivid examples of barely imaginable ways of living”

--BBC Wildlife, Book of the Month

“An intriguing and scientific - but easy to read - look at how plants experience life ” - Gardens Illustrated

“Plants may be brainless, eyeless and devoid of senses as we know them, but they have a rudimentary “awareness”, says biologist Daniel Chamovitz. In this beautiful reframing of the botanical, he reveals the extent and kind of that awareness through a bumper crop of research.” - Nature

“The reader... will find enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us.” - Wall Street Journal

“By comparing human senses to the abilities of plants to adapt to their surroundings, the author provides a fascinating and logical explanation of how plants survive despite the inability to move from one site to another.”

--Kirkus Reviews

“What a Plant Knows is lively, eloquent, scientifically accurate, and easy-to-read... I commend this engaging text to all who wonder about life on Earth, and seek a compelling introduction to the lives of plants revealed through centuries of careful scientific experimentation.” - Professor Stephen D. Hopper, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

“Chamovitz walks the Homo sapiens reader right into the shoes - or I should say roots - of the plant world. You will marvel and be haunted by a plant's sensory attributes and the shared genes between the plant and animal kingdoms.” - Elisabeth Tova Bailey, author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“With deftness and clarity, Chamovitz introduces plants' equivalents of our senses, plus floral forms of memory and orientation. When you realize how much plants know, you may think twice before you bite them!” - Hannah Holmes, author of Suburban Safari

“Just as his groundbreaking research uncovered connections between the plant and animal kingdoms, Daniel Chamovitz's insights in What a Plant Knows transcend the world of plants. You'll see plants in a new light after reading this book.” - Gloria Coruzzi, Professor of Biology, New York University

“A fascinating book that explores accessibly the evidence that plants share more properties with animals than most people appreciate.”

--John and Mary Gribbin, authors of The Flower Hunters

L'autore:

Daniel Chamovitz is Director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University in Israel. His career has been marked by groundbreaking discoveries in the biology of plants, with his research published in the leading journals. This is his first book.

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• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1851689702
• ISBN 13: 9781851689705
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224