SEED TO SEED: THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS

Book ID/图书代码： 02000005B10484

English Summary/英文概要： A brilliant evocation of the beauty of the natural world and an exhilarating explanation of its secret genetic workings, this book is beautifully illustrated with a frontispiece, 12 chapter openers and more than 40 sketches and diagrams. Seed to Seed is part field notebook, part sketchbook and part diary. Built upon a narrative of the passing seasons of 2004, it relates that narrative to the life history of an ‘iconic’ plant. It gives a description of what is ‘seen’ and of the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie the visible events in the plant’s life, and tells the story of the last ten years of scientific discoveries in Nicholas Harberd’s own laboratory as the team works on decoding the genome of a basic plant, thale cress – the fruit-fly of the plant world.
This is a book for the general reader written by a scientist, passionate about his subject, who decided he would get out into the open air and use the discoveries of the laboratory to explain the secret workings of the natural world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 目录
一月
二月
三月
四月
五月
六月
七月
八月
九月
十月
十一月
十二月
后记
专业术语
这是一本试图表现科学如何提高我们眼界的书。这本书主要是写给那些不是科学家的人群。一方面它描述了我特别奉献的神奇的科学领域: 加深理解植物怎样生长与为什么生长。另一方面它用宽泛的思想的文字来描述这些最新的进步。这是我的想法，一些近期我所认为的最使人激动人心的植物学的问题。因此，书是个人精神世界的自画像。正如所有的描述，它所摘录的：过分渲染一些特征，同时省略其他。它被画成先前所没有看到的而后我希望它所显现出来的模样。
这本书是一本真正的笔记，是2004年的日记。它的核心是经过生命周期的阶段在与季节有关的文字里设定出那些被选出的植物的生长。这样的描述与未知的分子推动力结合在一起，促使植物从一个阶段发展到另个阶段。其他的进展也被记录下来：对植物生长的科学的加深理解（我的研究团体最近的工作）；实现新的研究方向；从挫折到启迪的一次个人旅程。

Awards/获奖情况：`A bravura performance ... It’s a privilege to watch a subtle and daring mind at work ... and to glimpse, from so many angles, a scientist at work in the world’ -- Jenny Uglow, Sunday Times

`Natural History in its purest form. A botanical masterpiece in miniature’ -- David Bellamy

`Possessed of a perceptive eye and a fine turn of phrase, Harberd has written a classic’ -- New Scientist

`Tracing the lifespan of a weed, both in the wild and in a laboratory, makes enthralling reading ... Brilliantly written’ -- Penelope Hobhouse

`What Harberd’s book gives us clueless amateurs is a huge sense of awe at the extraordinary and brilliant machinery that regulates plant growth’ -- Anna Pavord, Independent

About the Author/作者介绍： Nicholas Harberd is one of the world’s leading plant biologists. He directs a research team at the John Innes Centre (Europe’s premier plant and microbial science research institute) and is Honorary Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and has published in the leading international journals Nature and Science.
尼古拉斯·哈贝是世界植物学家的领头人之一。他所带领的研究团队在John Innes中心（欧洲植物与微生物科学研究学会）和英国东部诺里奇的东盎格鲁大学生物学科学部的荣誉教授。他是很多科学文献的作者，并且出版了自然于科学方面引领性的、国际性的日记。

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