This heavily illustrated volume will prove a blessing to every aquarium hobbyist who has had to settle for superficial plant descriptions in general fish-keeping books. It presents a detailed A-to-Z directory covering hundreds of aquarium plants with high quality color photos and succinct profiles of each plant. Information includes the plant’s common name, botanical designation, growth cycle, and general description.
Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness
A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made a significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning.
In recent years, there have been considerable interests about the potential impact of biotechnology on various biotic and abiotic stress conditions in plants. Plant stresses contribute the most limiting factors for crop productivity worldwide. Collection of in depth reviews contributed by experts in the field of plant stress and molecular physiology, this book focuses on the possible roles of biotechnology in tackling plant stresses as affected by such factors associated with accelerated ageing, drought, extreme high-temperatures, heavy metals, high irradiance, salinity, water deficit and infections ...
Botany for GardenersA clear, nontechnical explanation of how plants work, and our bestselling book. It succeeds in explaining the complex processes of plant growth, functions, adaptation, responses, and reproduction in simple language. As the author intended, the gardener can come to understand a plant "from the plant's point of view."
This book is intended to give new meaning to many gardening practices by looking at them from the plant's point of view." The entire breadth of botanical science is surveyed: the structure, function, and evolution of plants,
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Plant Breeding and Related Subjects
Plant breeding has moved from the mainly agronomic focus to a research area embracing several disciplines. Until recently, the progress of the science was hampered by the lack of a comprehensive desk reference listing.
