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David Lee

Nature's Palette

The Science of Plant Color

384 pages, 438 color plates, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $35.00

ISBN: 9780226470528   Published December 2007

Paper $22.50

ISBN: 9780226470535   Pre-order now. Will publish May 2010

Preface
Acknowledgments

One
Coloring Our Bodies with Plants
Two Light, Vision, and Color
Three Nature's Palette
Four The Canvas
Five Patterns
Six Leaves
Seven Flowers
Eight Fruits and Seeds
Nine Stems and Roots
Ten Iridescent Plants
Eleven Why Leaves Turn Red
Twelve Chlorophilia

Appendix A: Plant Pigments and Related Molecules

Appendix B: Separating Plant Pigments by Paper Chromatography
Chapter Notes
Illustration Notes
Index
Subjects



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