Botany category: 1702 books
Forensic Botany
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Forensic Botany: A Practical Guide is an accessible introduction to the way in which botanical evidence is identified, collected and analysed in criminal cases. Increasingly this form of evidence is becoming more important in forensic investigation and yet there are few trained botanists able to assist...
Marijuana Botany
An Advanced Study: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1981
Marijuana Botany presents the scientific knowledge and propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing Cannabis strains. Also included is information concerning Cannabis genetics and breeding used to begin plant improvement programs. The book presents scientific and horticultural principles,...
by P. Barry Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Mangroves are distinctive tropical plant communities that occupy the intertidal zone between sea and land. They are of major ecological importance, have economic value as a source of food and raw materials, and serve as a buffer from flooding and climate change-induced sea level rise. Mangroves are...
by Frederick W. Keeble
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
“Botany for Gardeners” is a classic guide to gardening aimed at the serious gardener and green-fingered enthusiast. It includes a wealth of useful and interesting botanical information coupled with beautiful diagrams and illustrations, making it a must-read for those with an interest in the science...
The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 1
North of Florida and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Recent studies have revealed remarkable complexity and diversity in orchid-pollinator relationships. These studies comprise a vast literature currently scattered in numerous, often obscure, journals and books. The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids brings together, for the first time, a...
The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 2
North of Florida and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Recent studies have revealed remarkable complexity and diversity in orchid-pollinator relationships. These studies comprise a vast literature currently scattered in numerous, often obscure, journals and books. The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids brings together, for the first time, a...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book highlights current Cannabis research: its botany, authentication, biotechnology, in vitro propagation, chemistry, cannabinoids biosynthesis, metabolomics, genomics, biomass production, quality control, and pharmacology.
Cannabis sativa L. (Family: Cannabaceae) is one of the oldest...
CRC World Dictionary of Palms
Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (2 Volume Set)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
From the Foreword
Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating...
Liquorice
From Botany to Phytochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza) is one of the most widely used in foods, herbal medicine and one of the extensively researched medicinal plants of the world. In traditional medicine licorice roots have been used against treating many ailments including lung diseases, arthritis, kidney diseases, eczema, heart...
by Sonam Tobgay
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Biology - Botany, grade: 1, , course: Bachelor of Science in Forestry, language: English, abstract: The National Institute of Traditional is located at Kawang Jangsa, Thimphu. It was established in 1971 and upgraded in 1992. Today, the institute functions...
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants
• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances
• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights...
Progress in Botany
Vol. 74
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.
Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France
The Spirit of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the invention of a nomenclature that could be universally...
by Simcha Lev-Yadun
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores. It is mainly an ideological monograph, a manifesto representing my current understanding on defensive plant coloration and related issues. The book is not...