Botany category: 1702 books
Starch
Metabolism and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This book provides a detailed overview of the current understanding of the metabolic system of starch biosynthesis and degradation in plants. The focus is on new topics regarding the functional interaction between multiple enzymes and the initiation process of starch biosynthesis, which are essential...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The book provides an overview on adoption of biotechnological approaches for the conservation, micropropagation, synseed production of various medicinal and ornamental climbers. The work includes a brief chapter on evolution and diversification of climbers. Other chapters give insights on protocols...
by K.G. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book was written for an introductory ethnobotany course and for anyone with a strong interest in our use of plants. From food to gardens, readers are introduced to the importance of plants. Most chapters contain a brief exploration of the history of some important plants and their traditional...
Expedition Agroparks
Research by Design into Sustainable Development and Agriculture in the Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This book is the result of several years of expedition into the development of metropolitan FoodClusters. The author's fascination for the agricultural landscapes in and around metropolises led him to the conclusion that improving the efficiency of agriculture is the most effective way to safeguard...
Genetically Modified Plants
Assessing Safety and Managing Risk
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based hybridization between different plant species...
by Randhir Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Biotechnology is a relatively recent term that appeared for the first time around 1960. Its origin is the Greek word Bio meaning life, and Technology, which appeared in the French language in 1656 meaning the study of tools, machines and raw materials.
Plant Evolution
An Introduction to the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete...
by Hugh Glen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Southern Africa is home to more than 2,000 introduced (not indigenous) trees. These non-native species are encountered daily and form a familiar part of our urban landscapes, growing successfully in parks, gardens, along road sides, and in other open spaces. This guide features nearly 600 of the most...
by Frederic T. Bioletti
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
A study on oidium originally printed in 1907 by the university of California. This book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the amateur or professional winegrower and historian of viticulture, containing a wealth of information and anecdote, much of which is still practical today. Extensively...
Land Bridges
Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are separated into reproductively isolated populations...
Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass
Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South...
Insect Resistance Management
Biology, Economics, and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance management (IRM) is the scientific approach to preventing or delaying pest evolution and its negative impacts on agriculture, public...
The Book of Seeds
A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Seeds are nature’s consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way—often against incredible odds. Seeds can survive freezing temperatures and drought. They can pass through our digestive systems...
Advancing Food Integrity
GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Key features:
Presents summaries of key points after each chapter and includes color graphs to visualize the big-picture concepts
Demonstrates how urban rooftop farms (URFs) can contribute to city greening and climate change mitigation worldwide while providing fresh locally-sourced...