Instant Notes: Plant Biology

We would like to thank our families for their support throughout the writing, Margaret Evans for assis-
tance with diagrams and Profs. John Bryant, Jeremy Roberts and Chris Hawes who have given advice,
read sections, made comments, and supported us generally in the task of authorship. We also wish to
thank the team at BIOS for their patience and encouragement and their referees and chief editor, Dr
David Hames, for their valuable comments. Perhaps our main debt for the subject matter of this book
is to those who introduced us, as students in Aberdeen and Aberystwyth, to the field of plant biology
and to the students we have taught over many years at Oxford Brookes. Without their input, we would
not have been able to come even close to communicating the fundamentals of plant science simply and
understandably.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS