Botany category: 1702 books
Plant Breeding Reviews
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the improvement wrought through millenia of selection has so changed some of them...
Vascular Plants of Alberta, Part 1
Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnosperms, and Monocots
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Vascular Plants of Alberta is a user-friendly, portable key to the ferns, fern allies, gymnosperms, and monocots of Alberta. This key to the species of Alberta will delight all those interested in botany, with its intuitive and exhaustive presentation of the plants, including new names and taxonomical...
The Botanist’s Companion
Vol II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An introduction to the knowledge of practical botany and the uses of plants either growing wild in Great Britain, or cultivated for the purposes of agriculture, medicine, rural economy, or the arts. First published in 1816 and written by William Salisbury while working at the Botanic Garden on Sloane Street, London.
by D. P. Deswal, Davender Chauhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Biology - Botany, grade: None, , course: Doctorate in Seed Science and Technology, language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT: Seed of six varieties of wheat (Triticum aestivum) viz. C-306, PBW-502, WH-542, WH-711, WH-283 and RAJ-3765 were...
Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants
Volume 9, Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae,...
Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants
Volume 5, Fruits
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
This book continues as volume 5 of a multicompendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers edible fruits/seeds used fresh, cooked or processed as vegetables, cereals, spices, stimulant, edible oils and beverages. It covers selected species from the following families: Apiaceae, Brassicaceae,...
Taming the Wild Grape
Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book places grapes in the context of their family, the Vitaceae. It begins by focusing on the relationship of the family to other angiosperms and the interrelationships and characteristics of its genera. Two chapters emphasize the structure and development of its major vegetative and reproductive...
Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants
Volume 11 Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This book covers such plants with edible modified storage subterranean stems (corms, rhizomes, stem tubers) and unmodified subterranean stem stolons, above ground swollen stems and hypocotyls, storage roots (tap root, lateral roots, root tubers), and bulbs, that are eaten as conventional or functional...
People, Plants, and Landscapes
Studies in Paleoethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1997
People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different methods and theoretical approaches, the essays in this work apply botanical...
by Karl J. Niklas, Hanns-Christof Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion’s pappus and...
The Tree Habit in Land Plants
A Functional Comparison of Trunk Constructions with a Brief Introduction into the Biomechanics of Trees
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany. First, the evolution pattern of the earliest Devonian trees is analyzed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This work synthesizes research and practical work, including various techniques and applications of botany and nanoparticles, including enzymology, pharmaceuticals, phenolics, antioxidants, metal particles, synthesis of nanoparticles by plants and microbes, and more. The text discusses the latest...
Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants
Volume 12 Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book covers such plants with edible modified storage subterranean stems (corms, rhizomes, stem tubers) and unmodified subterranean stem stolons, above ground swollen stems and hypocotyls, storage roots (tap root, lateral roots, root tubers), and bulbs, that are eaten as conventional...
Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants
Volume 10, Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Volume 10 is part of a multi compendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists and general public. 59 plant species with...