The English-Spanish Dictionary of PlantBiology has been written to fill a need forincreased communication between Englishand Spanish speaking people who areworking in or are being affected by the manysub-fields of plant biology. Its generalpurpose is to aid, stimulate, and facilitate atwo-way flow of information andunderstanding between the peoples ofNorth, South, and Central America in an eraof economic and environmental interdependence.Included areplant-related terms from the fields of botany,ecology, genetics, taxonomy, oceanology,microbiology, physiology, cytology, marinebiology, forestry, silviculture, horticulture,anatomy, organology, phytopathology,agriculture, biochemistry, paleobotany,phenology, photobotany, phycology,systematics phytology, phytogeography,phytochemistry, phytosociology, morphology,pomology, and ethnobotany.