Fortress Plant : How to survive when everything wants to eat you (Record no. 296983)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198745600
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 581.47 WAL-F
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dale Walters
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Fortress Plant : How to survive when everything wants to eat you
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 212 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prologue -- How to get your five-a-day -- Recognizing the enemy -- Call to arms -- Weapons of war -- Deadly chemistry -- A little help from your friends -- The never-ending struggle -- Martial arts for plants -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other plants. But plants are master survivors, having coped with changing environments and evolving predators over much of the history of life on earth. They have surveillance systems and defences that would put most modern armies to shame. They need to have a formidable armoury, because their enemies have sophisticated weaponry of their own. In this often hostile world, battles are fought daily, often to the death. These battles are not trivial - they matter, because life on this fragile planet of ours depends on plants. In this book Dale Walters takes readers on a journey through these battlefields, exploring how predators try to fool plants' surveillance systems and, if they manage to do so, how they gain access to the nourishment they require. Incredibly, successful attackers can manipulate plant function in order to suppress any attempt by the plant to mount defensive action, while at the same time ensuring a steady supply of food for their own survival. Walters shows how plants respond to such attacks, the defences they use, and how the attacked plant can communicate its plight to its neighbours. These skirmishes represent the latest stage in an unending evolutionary war between plants and organisms that feed on them. These battles might be on a micro scale, but they are every bit as fierce, complicated, and fascinating as the battles between animal predators and prey.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Plant defenses.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 12/04/2019 1 581.47 WAL-F DCB3730 12/04/2019 12/04/2019 12/04/2019 Book