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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. In addition, a number of sequences of complete fungal genomes have been identified and several others will soon follow. In this volume, leading experts...
Carver
A Life in Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...
Precision in Crop Farming
Site Specific Concepts and Sensing Methods: Applications and Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
High yields and environmental control in crop farming call for precise adaptations to local growing conditions. Treating large fields in a uniform way by high capacity machinery cannot be regarded as a sustainable method for many situations. Because differences existing within single fields must be...
The Triumph of Seeds
How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom
"The genius of Hanson's fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of...
Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses
The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
For almost seventy-five years, Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses has been the classic guide to the structure of this complex group of plants. Clearly written and copiously illustrated with line drawings, the book is accessible to those with little or no botanical training, yet it also is respected...
Nature is Awesome
Fun Facts and Pictures for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
A book about nature sparks a child's imagination by introducing a child to the unique. Children are interested in things like where do certain animal come from and where does the rain come from. Children are also interested in the sky and how far away it is from the ground. Nature will also teach children...
Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee
The Complete Winter Guide to Their Identification and Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
For centuries people have used trees, shrubs, and woody vines for food, clothing, ritual, construction, scientific study, and more. However, these important plants are easy to overlook during the winter months, when the absence of leaves, fruit, and other distinguishing characteristics makes them...
by W. Rei Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This antique volume contains a detailed treatise on plants and how they grow, with a wealth of detailed and interesting information on the biology of plant cells, roots, leaves, and flowers. Written in clear language and profusely illustrated, this book will appeal to those with a keen interest in...
Alaska's Wilderness Medicines
Healthful Plants of the Far North
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as well as general information on how each one can...
Handbook of Edible Weeds
Herbal Reference Library
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Handbook of Edible Weeds contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of 100 edible weeds, representing 100 genera of higher plant species. Some of the species are strictly American, but many are cosmopolitan weeds. Each account includes common names recognized by the Weed Science Society of America,...
by Braam van Wyk
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the region’s best-selling field guide to trees offers much, much more than the highly successful first edition. Fully updated text (including additional species entries) and distribution maps, numerous new photographs and a new 87-page section...
by Margaret Gargiullo
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must-have reference...
by Fernando Cornejo, John Janovec
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Seeds of Amazonian Plants is the first field guide to treat the extraordinary diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. This stunningly illustrated guide features an easy-to-use whole-plant approach to seed...
by John D. Stuart, John O. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs. This is the first book to combine the trees and shrubs of California in one accessible field guide. Trees and Shrubs of California identifies and describes...