Blossoms: And the Genes That Make Them Format: Hardcover

Singer, Maxine F.

ISBN 10: 0198811136 / ISBN 13: 9780198811138

Published by Oxford University Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blossoms: And the Genes That Make Them Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198811136
• ISBN 13: 9780198811138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Flowers evolved to attract pollinators, so new generations of plant can form. But how do plants know when to bloom, and how do they construct their flowers? This book describes what we have learnt of the astonishing genetic and epigenetic processes behind the dazzling variety of flower shapes, colors, and scents.

About the Author

Maxine Singer received her Ph.D. in 1957 from Yale. She worked on RNA enzymology and the genetic code at the National Institutes of Health. Later, work on defective simian virus 40 genomes led to studies of highly repeated primate DNA and the discovery of a human transposable element. From 1988 through 2002 she was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. A member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, she chaired the Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, 1999-2005. She served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Science magazine. Maxine has received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award (1988), the National Medal of Science (1992) and the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (2007). She is a life member of the International Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science.