Domesticated Plants and Other Mutants

from Foreign Rights Catalogue Autumn 2021-2 | Editorial Flamboyant

Elebbit

Iban Eduardo & Alberto Montt

A book about edible plants which attempts to answer questions that you didn’t even know you had. Have the plants we eat today always been edible? How have they changed throughout history? If you plant a Canary Islands banana in Beijing, will it still be a Canary Islands banana or a Beijing one? Do people eat the same kind of food around the world? How can one plant and grow seedless watermelons? Could we get fruit to be tasty forever? Wild plants: better or worse?

The evolution of edible plants: from the wild to the lab.

Selling points A fun and hilarious approach to science, genetics and biochemistry. Amusing and informative text full of jokes that traces the emergence and development of domesticated plants. Appealing, bright and comic-like illustrations by well-known graphic humourist and cartoonist Alberto Montt. Ideal for inquisitive young readers willing to keep learning. Ideal for STEM curricula. Sold to 6 languages before its publication.

Marketing materials Teaching guide available on PDF. Foldable poster with information about the book and fun activites.

Iban Eduardo holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is part of IRTA, a research institute that aims at studying the genetics of vegetables and their evolution, with a focus on the domestication of crop plants. Alberto Montt has published comic strips in his blog Dosis Diarias and has worked as a freelance illustrator for many Latin American publishing houses, advertising agencies and magazines. Since 2016 he works with the illustrator Liniers carrying out comical stand ups. He has more than 266K followers on Instagram.