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Author : Beryl Simpson,Molly Ogorzaly
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0072909382
Written for the introductory-level course in Economic Botany, this edition offers more emphasis on key topics like biotechnology and ethnobotany.
Author : Molly Ogorzaly,Beryl Simpson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0073524247
This one-semester text is designed for an upper level botany course. Plants in our World emphasizes how people use plants; including fundamental information on morphology, anatomy, and taxonomy as a foundation of general botany. Now in full color, the fourth edition includes molecular data that has immensely altered the understanding of relationships among flowering plants and recently pinpointed the origin of numerous crops. Taxonomy of species has been updated to discuss the system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
Author : S. L. Kochhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781316675397
This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide. It provides detailed discussion on the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication and distribution, and crop improvement. The text starts with the origin and diversification of cultivated plants, followed by discussion on tropical, subtropical and temperate crops that are sources of food, beverages, spices and medicines, as well as plant insecticides, timber plants and essential oil-yielding plants. The genetic and evolutionary aspects of different plants and their health benefits are highlighted. The book covers topics dealing with biodiversity conservation, petro-crops, ethnobotanical studies, and important sub-tropical and temperate plants that have commercial importance. The significance of major plant species under each category is described in detail. Illustrated with numerous well-labelled line diagrams and pictures, this book will be useful for students of botany, food and nutrition, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, plant breeding and environmental science.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : OCLC:250930542
Nutzpflanzen (allgemein), Ethnobotanik.
Author : G.E. Wickens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401009690
The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource.
Author : John H. Wiersema,Blanca León
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466576810
Given the frequent movement of commercial plants outside their native location, the consistent and standard use of plant names for proper identification and communication has become increasingly important. This second edition of World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference is a key tool in the maintenance of standards for the basic science underlyin
Author : Maarten J. M. Christenhusz,Michael F. Fay,Mark W. Chase
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226536705
Plants of the World is the first book to systematically explore every vascular plant family on earth—more than four hundred and fifty of them—organized in a modern phylogenetic order. Detailed entries for each family include descriptions, distribution, evolutionary relationships, and fascinating information on economic uses of plants and etymology of their names. All entries are also copiously illustrated in full color with more than 2,500 stunning photographs. A collaboration among three celebrated botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Plants of the World is authoritative, comprehensive, and beautiful. Covering everything from ferns to angiosperms, it will be an essential resource for practicing botanists, horticulturists, and nascent green thumbs alike.
Author : Thomas R. H. Havens
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824882891
Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences. The majority of plant species regarded as “Japanese” trace their origins to western China and the eastern Himalaya but are so indigenized that they often seem native today. Early modern scientists in Japan drew on knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine but achieved distinctive insights into plant life commensurate with but separate from their European counterparts. Scholars at the University of Tokyo pioneered Japanese plant biology in the late nineteenth century. They incorporated Western botanical methods but sought a degree of difference in taxonomy while also gaining international legitimacy through publications in English. Japan’s age of empire (1895–1945) was less about plant exploration and more about plant collection, for both scientific and economic benefits. Displays of species from throughout the empire made Japan’s sphere of colonization and conquest visible at home. The infrastructure for research and instruction expanded slowly after World War Two: new laboratories, botanical gardens, scholarly societies, and publications eventually allowed for great diversity of specialized study, especially with the growth of molecular biology in the 1970s and DNA research in the 1980s. Basic research was harmed by cuts in government funding during 2012–2017, but Japanese plant biologists continue to enjoy international esteem in many fields of scholarship.
Author : George Lincoln Goodale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : CHI:086350873
Author : S. L. Kochhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107112940
"Provides vivid information about the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication, distribution and crop improvement"--
Author : George Lincoln Goodale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Botany
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107228223
Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438434308
Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.
Author : Helen Bynum,William Bynum
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780500772430
A glorious celebration of the beauty, diversity, importance and sheer wonder of the most remarkable plants that shape our world, with exquisite illustrations from the incomparable collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The authors are expert guides to the intriguing histories, significance and uses of over 80 key plants, revealing our complex relationship with them, both for use and beauty. Rich in cultural, historical, botanical and symbolic associations, the plants presented here, from every corner of the globe, both familiar and bizarre, all have fascinating stories to tell. Sections cover every aspect of our interaction with plants, starting with foods that laid the foundations for the development of civilizations, such as wheat, rice and maize, and those that enliven our diet, such as saffron and spices. Other sections look at plants that have helped to house us, including bamboo and the oak, or crops that have made people rich, notably tea, coffee and sugar cane. Many plants have been used medicinally, from willow to the Madagascar periwinkle. Some are the objects of obsession or are revered, including the tulip, the rose and the lotus, and some are bizarre, such as the world's largest flower, rafflesia, which smells of rotting flesh. For anyone interested in the beauty and diversity of plants, this beautiful book, richly illustrated with over 200 drawings and paintings, will be an inspiration and a delight.
Author : George Lincoln Goodale
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357765363
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Author : Chris Beardshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Plants
ISBN : 190650671X
* The tales of 100 plants recounted that will transform how we view and value plants* The author Chris Beardshaw is one of the leading lights in the world of gardening From cars made of carrot to tea-smuggling spies; Popeye's spinach to the hallucinogenic effects of lettuce, renowned garden expert Chris Beardshaw takes us on a journey though history's most fascinating plants, flowers, vegetables and herbs: the ones that changed the world, the ones that almost did, and the ones that certainly didn't! Ranging from Roman times to present day and even covering future plant-inventions, 100 Plants that (almost) changed the World is a fascinating compendium of stories about the plants and vegetables we see, nurture and consume every day. If you have ever wondered why carrots are supposed to help you see in the dark or why we hang fairy lights and decorations on our Christmas trees then this is the book for you a fun and quirky new volume that offers unique exploration of our planets most fascinating plants.
