Botany category: 1702 books
Biology, Productivity and Bioenergy of Timber-Yielding Plants
An Experimental Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Face to the current global energy crisis, there is an urgent necessity of searching for alternatives to fossil fuels, and this book shows how timber is a promising resource for sustainable energy production. Northeast Mexico represents an important forest resource to satisfy the needs of the population...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Millions of trees live and grow all around us, and we all recognize the vital role they play in the world’s ecosystems. Publicity campaigns exhort us to plant yet more. Yet until recently comparatively little was known about the root causes of the physical changes that attend their growth. Since...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
Nitrogen in the Environment: Sources, Problems, and Management is the first volume to provide a holistic perspective and comprehensive treatment of nitrogen from field, to ecosystem, to treatment of urban and rural drinking water supplies, while also including a historical overview, human health impacts...
Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes:
Building Coherence between Microbial Ecology and Molecular Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The offered volume intends to review the biological control theme of phytonematodes from several prospects: ecological; applicative as well as commercial state of the art; understanding the mode-of-action of various biocontrol systems; interaction between the plant host, nematodes’ surface and microorganism’s;...
Biosafety of Forest Transgenic Trees
Improving the Scientific Basis for Safe Tree Development and Implementation of EU Policy Directives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book provides up-to-date information on the environmental impact of transgenic trees on genetically modified tree (GMT) communication strategy. It is useful to public/private organisations as well as to private and public research bodies and universities worldwide since it reports on the global...
by A. G. Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Farmer's Glory was first published in 1932. It was A. G. Street's first book and remains his most famous. In his own modest words 'This book is simply an attempt to give a pen picture of farming life in Southern England and Western Canada.' It succeeds memorably.Compton Mackenzie, reviewing it in...
Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften: Physik + Versuch über die Gestalt der Tiere + Vorarbeiten zu einer Physiologie der Pflanzen + Zu Optik und Farbenlehre und mehr
Der Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt + Reine Begriffe + Geplante Versuche + Inhalt der Abhandlung über die Farbenlehre + Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Dieses eBook ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Repräsentanten deutschsprachiger Dichtung. Goethes literarische Produktion umfasst Lyrik, Dramen, erzählende...
by Steven Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what...
Cannabis
Evolution and Ethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks,...
by Andrea Wulf
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Cosa accomuna un manipolo di mercanti e giardinieri inglesi, un intraprendente agricoltore americano e il botanico svedese più famoso di tutti i tempi? Fairchild, Miller, Bartram, Collinson, Banks, Linneo: sono solo alcuni membri della «confraternita dei giardinieri» che, con ruoli, motivazioni...
by S. Max Walters, David Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering the opportunity for significant progress in the investigation...
Conservation of Wood Artifacts
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion)...
by Jürgen Kranz
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Comparison is a powerful cognitive research tool in science since it does "across studies" to evaluate similarities and differences, e.g. across taxa or diseases. This book deals with comparative research on plant disease epidemics. Comparisons are done in specifically designed experiments...
by Nicholas Harberd
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Nicholas Harberd, a father, scientist, and nature lover, spends his days at the lab directing a team discovering the secrets of how plants grow, using a common weed as their example. Concerned that he's losing sight of the weed's ordinary days in the world, he sets out to find an example of the same...