The continued success story of one of the most popular introductory botanic textbooks: the 5th edition of "Lüttge, Kluge, Bauer" -- completely revised, with 20% of the content new and now in color for the first time. Both the most important fundamentals as well as such current topics as Arabidopsis genome project, genomics and proteomics are covered in the authors' unique and readily comprehensible style, backed by lucid figures. Compact, complete and colorful - the best "Botany" ever.