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Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we use them to our advantage in a vast number of ways. This is a lively, nontechnical account of how green plants live, grow and...reach for the sun. It covers everything you need or want to know about plants, including how plants satisfy their nutritional and energy needs, how they direct and promote their growth, development and death, and how they react to the daily and seasonal variations and stresses in their environments. Finally, the author describes how they attract and repel other living organisms and how we exploit them for our own use in food and medicine. From their ability to take energy from sunlight to make their own food to their amazing range of life-sustaining, death-defying strategies, John King explains why plants dominate our planet. This is not just a book for avid gardeners and naturalists. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand why the earth is green.

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title:Reaching for the Sun : How Plants Work
author:King, John.
publisher:Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:9780521587389
ebook isbn13:9780511001796
language:English
subjectPlants, Botany.
publication date:1997
lcc:QK50.K46 1997eb
ddc:571.2
subject:Plants, Botany.
Reaching for the Sun
How Plants Work
Page i
Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we have used them in a vast number of ways down the centuries to our advantage. But have you ever wondered how plants work? Where do trees get the material to make wood? How does a bulb 'know' to sprout in the spring? Why are flowers different colors and why do they smell? This book answers these questions in a charming and accessible way. From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own food to their amazing range of life-sustaining, death-defying strategies, John King explains why plants dominate our planet. Plants might live life at a different pace from animals but they are just as fascinating.
This is not just a book for keen gardeners and naturalists. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand why the earth is green.

John King is Professor of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He was educated at Durham University in England and then for his PhD studied plant physiology at the University of Manitoba. He joined the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan in 1967 where he has remained ever since.
During a career spanning more than thirty years, Professor King has gained international recognition for his studies of plant physiology and biochemical genetics. He has served the research community in Canada for many years, especially through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Ottawa. He is also a Past-President of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists and is currently an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Botany.
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The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering
SUSAN ALDRIDGE
Remarkable Discoveries
FRANK ASHALL
Evolving the Mind:
On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness
A. G. CAIRNS-SMITH
Prisons of Light Black Holes
KITTY FERGUSON
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
JEAN HEIDMANN
Hard to Swallow:
A Brief History of Food
RICHARD LACEY
An Inventor in the Garden of Eden
ERIC LAITHWAITE
The Clock of Ages:
Why We Age How We Age Winding Back the Clock
JOHN J. MEDINA
Improving Nature?
The Science and Ethics of Engineering
MICHAEL J. REISS and ROGER STRAUGHAN
Beyond Science:
The Wider Human Context
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
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Reaching for the Sun
How Plants Work
John King
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PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Cambridge University Press 1997
This edition Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2001
This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 1997
Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge
Typeset in Ehrhardt 11/13 pt
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
King, John, 1938
Reaching for the sun: how plants work/John King.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0 521 55148 X (hardback). - ISBN 0 521 58738 7 (pbk.)
1. Plants. 2. Botany. I. Title.
QK50.K46 1997
571.2-dc21 96-45251 CIP
ISBN 0 521 55148 X hardback
ISBN 0 521 58738 7 paperback
eISBN 0 511 00179 7 virtual (netLibrary Edition)
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Contents
Preface
vi
1
Plants Are Cool, But Why?
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2
Photosynthesis: The Leitmotiv of Life
13
3
Respiration: Breathing Without Lungs
27
4
Nitrogen, Nitrogen, Everywhere...
39
5
Nutrition for the Healthy Lifestyle
53
6
Transport of Delights
65
7
Growth: The Long and the Short of It
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