The Secret Of Plants In The Environment by Rishikesh Upadhyay

Author : Rishikesh Upadhyay

Title : The Secret Of Plants In The Environment  

Publsihed : 2020

Publsiher : Notion Press

Pages : 204

Genre : Non-Ficiton

     Plants are sessile organisms that are unable to move but face the challenge of ever-changing or adverse environments. The study of the development of environmental changes intolerant plants is fundamental for the maintenance and streamlining of high crop yields and plant adaptation in natural environments. The identification of genes that lead to changes or stress tolerance is urgently needed for the growth and development of plants in their natural environment. The Secret of Plants in the ENVIRONMENT addresses environmental concerns such as the different types of stress situations and plant adaptation to changing environments, including the positive and negative effects of stress on the growth of crops, the beginning stages of plant life cycles, and plant output.

     I was given a free copy of this book in order to give a fair and honest review of it. How much do any of us really know about the plants that live around us? We affect their very existence every day without for the most part giving them a second thought. Through the pollution we cause and out ever-expanding cities each year they are getting put under more and more stressors. It is in some ways a strange way to put it. We don't associate plants with suffering in the same ways as humans do. But that is where we are wrong, It might just be in a slightly different way.  All Living things require certain things to stay alive and it is the hunt for these key ingredients that cause us to struggle against the world we inhabit.   

     When It comes to The Secret Of Plants In The Environment this is most definitely a book seated in the world of academic research. This is also somewhere that I would not normally go looking for my next read but does that mean that I have been missing out on things for a long time. I think in this case that would be a yes. I was fortunate to learn a great deal from this book that I feel I would not have been able to get anywhere else. It has shown me just how much for granted we take plants. We see them grow pretty much everywhere on the plant in some of the harshest conditions. I suppose in my own mind I just assumed that just do their thing and that is that. But as Upadhyay has shown me there is a vast amount of variable that can affect their growth. Sadly as we can see much of this is caused by the effect humans have on the plant.

     As I said before this is a book routed in academe so when picking this book up do not expect a light read with joky anecdotes about the author's interactions with their plants. This is a book that wants to educate you and when you have finished you should come away with a much great understanding we have on the natural world. I would imagine that if you were studying botany then this book would be a great aid in that.  Each chapter is broken down into easy to digest topics make it somewhat easier for the layman to follow. we are also treated to a few diagrams and photos along the way to illustrate certain points. I would say as someone who didn't understand a great deal about the subject going in I still found it easy to understand. The author has clearly done a great deal of research on the chosen topic and has done there best to get this over in a clear and succinct way.

     A great introduction to the subject at hand with a big focus on the academic it is sure to please anyone looking to find a foothold in to the deeper world or plants.