Flora Unveiled

Lincoln Taiz is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists. He has published over a hundred and fifty research papers on a broad range of topics in plant physiology, and is the co-author of the standard textbook in the field, Plant Physiology and Development, currently in its sixth edition.Lee Taiz, a research biologist specializing in electron microscopy, co-authored numerous papers on plant biology and on the history of science while on the staff of the Cell and Molecular Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her paintings, primarily on botanical subjects, have been exhibited widely, and appear in books, periodicals, and exhibition catalogs.

• PrefaceChapter 1: The Quandary Over Plant SexChapter 2: The Discovery of SexChapter 3: Crop Domestication and GenderChapter 4: Plant-Female Iconography in Neolithic EuropeChapter 5: Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens Chapter 6: Mystic Plants and Aegean Nature Goddesses Chapter 7: The "Plantheon" of Greek MythologyChapter 8: Plant Sex from Empedocles to TheophrastusChapter 9: Roman Assimilation of Greek Myths and BotanyChapter 10: From Herbals to Walled Gardens: Plant Gender and Iconography Chapter 11: Troubadours, Romancing the Rose, and the Rebirth of Naturalism Chapter 12: The Difficult Birth of the Two-Sex ModelChapter 13: Plant Nuptials in the Linnaean EraChapter 14: Behind the Green Door: Love and Lust in Eighteenth Century BotanyChapter 15: Wars of the Roses: Ideology versus ExperimentChapter 16: Idealism and Asexualism in the Age of GoetheChapter 17: Sex and the Single CryptogamChapter 18: Flora's Enclosed Gardens

Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants is a tour de force written by the eminent plant physiologist Lincoln Taiz and his wife Lee, a biologist. It is destined to be a classic.