Jahren «has transformed the sedentary, slow - growing lives
of plants into a vibrant series
of stories that are interwoven with tales
of her own research career in the
field of paleo -
plant physiology,» wrote reviewer Meg Lowman, a
field biologist at the California Academy
of Sciences in San Francisco who is also an author.
This is a valuable resource for researchers
of maize and other cereals, and anyone working on basic or applied science in the
fields of seed development,
plant genetics, and crop
physiology.