Category: Botany - Plant Science
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Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, And Gymnosperms
Original price was: $170.00.$136.00Current price is: $136.00.Add to cartBryophytes and pteridophytes are two large groups of spore producing land plants. Bryophytes are a group of small, mostly non-vascular, land plants that share a unique life cycle having a dominant gametophyte. The spore producing body called sporophyte is permanently attached to the sexual body called gametophyte. The gametophytic bodies of bryophytes can be either …
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Diversity in barley
Original price was: $190.00.$152.00Current price is: $152.00.Add to cartGenetic diversity is one of the main resources sustaining human life. Food security largely depends on the availability and utilization of this diversity, which is of strategic importance for countries and companies. Conservation and utilization of biodiversity is thus currently an urgent area of global debate and concern.Barley is a major crop in the world …
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Grassland Ecophysiology and Grazing Ecology
Original price was: $266.85.$213.48Current price is: $213.48.Add to cartThis book consists of edited and revised versions of the 20 invited papers presented at an International Symposium on Grassland Ecophysiology and Grazing Ecology held at Curitiba, Parana, Brazil on 24-26 August 1999. The papers are on the sustainability of grazing systems (1); environmental constraints and plant responses to defoliation (4); morphogenesis of pasture species …
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Key Works to the Fauna and Flora of the British Isles and North-western Europe
Original price was: $79.00.$63.20Current price is: $63.20.Add to cartThe principal works for the identification of all living organisms–animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and viruses–found in northwestern Europe are listed in this practical and accessible reference book. The new edition reflects the progress made since publication of the fourth edition in 1978, and features a succinct selection of the relevant recent and standard literature for …
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Medicinal Plants in Tropical Countries: Traditional Use, Experience, Facts
Original price was: $114.99.$91.99Current price is: $91.99.Add to cartAccording to estimates of the World Health Organization, 80% of the world population is primarily reliant on such traditional methods of healing as medicinal plants. This timely text assesses 25 common plants from several countries, providing practical and evidence-based recommendations for their application.
This book essential for all practitioners working in developing countries who must understand the characteristics of medicinal plants.
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Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology
Original price was: $99.95.$79.96Current price is: $79.96.Add to cart“Physiology,” which is the study of the function of cells, organs, and organisms, derives from the Latin physiologia, which in turn comes from the Greek physi- or physio-, a prefix meaning natural, and logos, meaning reason or thought. Thus physiology suggests natural science and is now a branch of biology dealing with processes and activities …
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Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products
Original price was: $319.00.$255.20Current price is: $255.20.Add to cartThis book is a collection of chapters concerning the use of biomass for the sustainable production of energy and chemicals–an important goal that will help decrease the production of greenhouse gases to help mitigate global warming, provide energy security in the face of dwindling petroleum reserves, improve balance of payment problems and spur local economic development. Clearly there are ways to save energy that need to be encouraged more. These include more use of energy sources such as, among others, manure in anaerobic digesters, waste wood in forests as fuel or feedstock for cellulosic ethanol, and conservation reserve program (CRP) land crops that are presently unused in the US. The use of biofuels is not new; Rudolf Diesel used peanut oil as fuel in the ?rst engines he developed (Chap. 8), and ethanol was used in the early 1900s in the US as automobile fuel [Songstad et al. (2009) Historical perspective of biofuels: learning from the past to rediscover the future. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 45:189–192). Brazil now produces enough sugar cane ethanol to make up about 50% of its transportation fuel needs (Chap. 4). The next big thing will be cellulosic ethanol. At present, there is also the use of Miscanthus x giganteous as fuel for power plants in the UK (Chap. 2), bagasse (sugar cane waste) to power sugar cane mills (Chap. 4), and waste wood and sawdust to power sawmills (Chap. 7).
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Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands
Original price was: $139.00.$111.20Current price is: $111.20.Add to cartWritten by the leading authorities on the plant diversity and ecology of the Pacific islands, this book is a magisterial synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands features over 400 color photographs, plus dozens of maps and climate diagrams.