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• A good text must be continually re-evaluated and reorganized to make sure that it provides students with the most current information available. This new edition has been “reshaped” with an extensive revision of four key chapters.
  
  

• Contributing authors Jim Bidlack, University of Central Oklahoma; and Shelley Jansky, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point have lent their expertise to completely rewrite chapters 3 (Cells) and 10 (Plant Metabolism) and 13 (Genetics) and 14 (Plant Propagation and Biotechnology), respectively.
  
  

• Introductory Plant Biology continues to foster new growth through its solid presentation of the material, emphasis on current issues, and expert writing.