Plants & People
Plants & People

Author: James D. Mauseth

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0763785504

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Part of the Jones & Bartlett Learning Special Topics in Biology Series!Plants play a role in the environment, in food, beverage, and drug production, as well as human health. Written for the introductory, non-science major course, Plants and People outlines the practical, economical, and environmental aspects of plants' interaction with humans and the earth. Mauseth provides comprehensive coverage of plants in the environment --global warming, deforestation, biogeography -- as well as the role plants play in food, fiber, and medicine.

Why People Need Plants
Why People Need Plants

Author: Carlton Wood

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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With its clear, unambiguous text, diagrams and illustration, Why People Need Plants is a wide-ranging andattractive introduction to the science behind the essential functions performed by plants.

Annals of Botany
Annals of Botany

Author: Isaac Bayley Balfour

Publisher:

Published: 1889

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 1-4 include section called Record of current literature.

Flooding and Plant Growth
Flooding and Plant Growth

Author: Bozzano G Luisa

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0323139116

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Flooding and Plant Growth covers the state of knowledge and opinion on the effects of flooding of soil with fresh or salt water on the metabolism and growth of herbaceous and woody plants. The book discusses the extent, causes, and impacts of flooding; the effects of flooding on soils and on the growth and metabolism of herbaceous plants; and the responses of woody plants to flooding. The text also describes the effect of flooding on water, carbohydrate, and mineral relations, as well as the effects of flooding on hormone relations and on plant disease. The adaptations to flooding with fresh water and the adaptations of plants to flooding with salt water are also encompassed. Agronomists, biochemists, plant ecologists, engineers, foresters, horticulturists, plant anatomists, meteorologists, geneticists, plant breeders, plant physiologists, and landscape architects will find the book invaluable.

Grasses and Grassland Ecology
Grasses and Grassland Ecology

Author: David J. Gibson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 019852918X

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This book is the most up to date and thorough account of the natural history of the plants that comprise the most important food crop on Earth, the grasses and grasslands.

Structure and Function of Plants
Structure and Function of Plants

Author: Jennifer W. MacAdam

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-11-18

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1119949440

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Plant anatomy and physiology and a broad understanding of basic plant processes are of primary importance to a basic understanding of plant science. These areas serve as the first important building blocks in a variety of fields of study, including botany, plant biology, and horticulture. Structure and Function of Plants will serve as a text aimed at undergraduates in the plant sciences that will provide an accurate overview of complex plant processes as well as details essential to a basic understanding of plant anatomy and physiology. Presented in an engaging style with full-color illustrations, Structure and Function of Plants will appeal to undergraduates, faculty, extension faculty, and members of Master Gardener programs.

Plants as Persons
Plants as Persons

Author: Matthew Hall

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2011-05-06

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1438434308

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Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.

Economic Botany
Economic Botany

Author: G.E. Wickens

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 9401009694

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The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource.