Plant Life category: 1095 books
by S. K. Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Closely related fields include plant morphology (structure of plants), plant ecology (interactions with the environment), phytochemistry (biochemistry of plants), cell biology, genetics, biophysics...
In Praise of Poison Ivy
The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hated Plant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Deadly. Powerful. Beautiful. The much-hated plant called poison ivy is all of these—and more.
Poison ivy has long irritated humans, but the astounding paradox is that poison ivy is a plant of immense ecological value. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic...
How to Plant a Tree
A Simple Celebration of Trees and Tree-Planting Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
This gorgeously packaged little book celebrates trees and their life-affirming presence in our lives.
The earth's longest living organisms, trees exemplify nature's great strength as well as its majestic beauty. Serving as virtual lungs for our planet, trees provide us with food, medicine,...
Plant Life of Kentucky
An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive guide to all the ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of the state. This long-awaited work provides identification keys for Kentucky's 2,600 native and naturalized vascular plants, with notes on wildlife/human uses, poisonous plants, and medicinal...
Plant Conservation
Why It Matters and How It Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Plants’ ability to turn sunlight into energy makes them the basis for all life; without them there is no life. And they are more than just a food source—they provide us with fuel, fibers, and pharmaceuticals.
Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats are a serious threat to...
by Brian Thomas, Denis J Murphy, Brian G Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
A multi-faceted reference work, the Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences addresses the core knowledge, theories, and techniques employed by plant scientists, while also concentrating on applications of these in research and in industry. Plants influence all our lives as sources of sustenance, fuel...
Thus Spoke the Plant
A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.
In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic...
by S. K. Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Plant pathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions. Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like organisms, phytoplasmas, protozoa, nematodes and parasitic plants....
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...
by Richard Mabey
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." —Constance Casey, New York Times
The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard...
Plants in Contemporary Poetry
Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses...
Plant Ethics
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Large parts of our world are filled with plants, and human life depends on, interacts with, affects and is affected by plant life in various ways. Yet plants have not received nearly as much attention from philosophers and ethicists as they deserve. In environmental philosophy, plants are often swiftly...
Wild Harvest
Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and...
by Bibhuti Dutta Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
People have been breeding plants to improve quality, increase yields and reduce harmful characteristics in crops for thousands of years. In the last few decades, plant breeders have been able to introduce beneficial traits in plants more precisely using a variety of techniques commonly known today...