Plant Kin

Author : Theresa L. Miller
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477317426

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Plant Kin by Theresa L. Miller Pdf

The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah) a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops who they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as they reckon with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.

Author : John L. Ingraham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674979260

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Kin by John L. Ingraham Pdf

By unlocking the evolutionary information contained in cells, biologists have been able to construct the Tree of Life and show that its three main stems are dominated by microbes. Plants and animals constitute a small upper branch in one stem. Soon we may know how life began over 3.5 billion years ago. John Ingraham tells this story of discovery.

Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438434308

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Plants as Persons by Matthew Hall Pdf

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 : G.P. Cheplick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199988334

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Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology by G.P. Cheplick Pdf

Plant evolutionary ecology is a rapidly growing discipline which emphasizes that populations adapt and evolve not in isolation, but in relation to other species and abiotic environmental features such as climate. Although it departs from traditional evolutionary and ecological fields of study, the field is connected to branches of ecology, genetics, botany, conservation, and to a number of other fields of applied science, primarily through shared concepts and techniques. However, most books regarding evolutionary ecology focus on animals, creating a substantial need for scholarly literature with an emphasis on plants. Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology is the first book to specifically explore the evolutionary characteristics of plants, filling the aforementioned gap in the literature on evolutionary ecology. Renowned plant ecologist Gregory P. Cheplick summarizes and synthesizes much of the primary literature regarding evolutionary ecology, providing a historical context for the study of plant populations from an evolutionary perspective. The book also provides summaries of both traditional (common gardens, reciprocal transplants) and modern (molecular genetic) approaches used to address questions about plant adaptation to a diverse group of abiotic and biotic factors. Cheplick provides a rigorously-written introduction to the rapidly growing field of plant evolutionary ecology that will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in ecology and evolution, as well as educators who are teaching courses on related topics.

Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438434292

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Plants as Persons by Matthew Hall Pdf

Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058236092

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A Dictionary of the Chinese Language by Robert Morrison Pdf

Author : Jessica Baker LAc RH (AHG)
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504393560

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Plant Songs by Jessica Baker LAc RH (AHG) Pdf

Plant Songs is a uniquely written book on herbal medicine that weaves personal stories with herbalism, spirituality, and environmental activism. The songs of pine, cannabis, reishi, and other medicinal herbs are shared through accounts of plant communication, clinical observations, research, and recipes. Plant Songs explores how nature heals and communicates if we slow down and listen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : China
ISBN : PRNC:32101073674408

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Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438474373

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The Imagination of Plants by Matthew Hall Pdf

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia. Plants have a remarkable mythology dating back thousands of years. From the ancient Greeks to contemporary Indigenous cultures, human beings have told colorful and enriching stories that have presented plants as sensitive, communicative, and intelligent. This book explores the myriad of plant tales from around the world and the groundbreaking ideas that underpin them. Amid the key themes of sentience and kinship, it connects the anemone to the meaning of human life, tree hugging to the sacred basil of India, and plant intelligence with the Finnish epic The Kalevala. Bringing together commentary, original source material, and colorful illustrations, Matthew Hall challenges our perspective on these myths, the plants they feature, and the human beings that narrate them. “Whether or not we believe that any plant actually has an imagination, the rhetorical flourish in Matthew Hall’s title sends us into his book with a serious interest in what he has to say. This is a valuable addition to our knowledge about mythic tale-telling and awareness of those elements of the animate world that science, since the Renaissance, has always placed on the lowest scale of value. Hall wants to redress this imbalance, and he does so by revealing just how essential (to Indigenous cultures) the plant kingdom was to humanity’s place in the universe.” — Ashton Nichols, author of Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting

Author : E. Bretschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503534213

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Botanicum Sinicum by E. Bretschneider Pdf

Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015030676491

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Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai Pdf

Contains list of members.

Author : H S Chawla
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439894149

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Introduction to Plant Biotechnology (3/e) by H S Chawla Pdf

This book has been written to meet the needs of students for biotechnology courses at various levels of undergraduate and graduate studies. This book covers all the important aspects of plant tissue culture viz. nutrition media, micropropagation, organ culture, cell suspension culture, haploid culture, protoplast isolation and fusion, secondary metabolite production, somaclonal variation and cryopreservation. For good understanding of recombinant DNA technology, chapters on genetic material, organization of DNA in the genome and basic techniques involved in recombinant DNA technology have been added. Different aspects on rDNA technology covered gene cloning, isolation of plant genes, transposons and gene tagging, in vitro mutagenesis, PCR, molecular markers and marker assisted selection, gene transfer methods, chloroplast and mitochondrion DNA transformation, genomics and bioinformatics. Genomics covers functional and structural genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, sequencing status of different organisms and DNA chip technology. Application of biotechnology has been discussed as transgenics in crop improvement and impact of recombinant DNA technology mainly in relation to biotech crops.

Author : E. Bretschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Botany
ISBN : UCAL:$B450351

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Botanicon Sinicum: Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese by E. Bretschneider Pdf

Author : Craig N. Huegel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780813063836

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The Nature of Plants by Craig N. Huegel Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides readers with an extensive tour into their workings. Beginning with the importance of light, water, and soil, Huegel describes the process of photosynthesis and how best to position plants to receive optimal sunlight. He explains why plants suffer from overwatering, what essential elements plants need to flourish, and what important soil organisms reside with them. Readers will understand the difference between friendly and hostile bacteria, fungi, and insects. Sections on plant structure and reproduction focus in detail on major plant organs—roots, stems, and leaves—and cover flowering, pollination, fruit development, and seed germination. Huegel even delves into the mysterious world of plant communication, exploring the messages conveyed to animals or other plants through chemical scents and hormones. With color illustrations, photographs, and real-life examples from his own gardening experiences, Huegel equips budding botanists, ecologists, and even the most novice gardeners with knowledge that will help them understand and foster plants of all types.

Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland China Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z312006709

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Journal of the China Branch by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland China Branch Pdf