Book ID: 92579
Nicolson, Susan W., Massimo Nepi and Ettore Pacini (eds.)
Nectaries and Nectar. 2007. XVII, 395 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
A modern and interdisciplinary text on nectar and nectaries, prompted by the expansion of knowledge, especially in the more ecological and nowmolecular fields, and the strong recent interest in pollination biology.Topics include historical aspects, structure and ultrastructure ofnectaries and relationships to plant systematics, the dynamics of nectarsecretion, nectar chemistry and the molecular biology of defenceproteins, adaptations to insect and vertebrate nectar consumers and consequences for pollination ecology, and broad-scale studies of nectarresources at the community level.