Resources Tagged: Botany

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  1. Botany

    This text is designed to be used in an introductory botany or biology course. As our knowledge of plants has grown, so has our need to know more about them, so knowledge has expanded rapidly during recent years. It follow the levels of organization of biological thought, beginning with molecules...
    Botany

  2. The private life of plants: a natural history of plant behaviour

    Based on the immensely popular six-part BBC program that aired in the United States during the fall of 1995, this book offers what writer/filmmaker David Attenborough is best known for delivering: an intimate view of the natural world wherein a multitude of miniature dramas unfold. In the program...
    plants Botany

  3. The natural history of medicinal plants

    Whether you are an avid gardener, a practicing heralist, or a physician whose patients want to know more about healing plants, this book belongs on your shelf.
    Medical Botany Medicinal Plants

  4. The Cultivated Plants of the Tropics and Subtropics: Cultivation, Economic Value, Utilization

    Each chapter begins with an introduction to the particular properties of the plant group, giving an overview on the economics, production trends, nutritional aspects, chemistry, and technological features. Only the major crops could be treated in detail. With regard to these, we sought to cover...
    Botany Economic Development agriculture Tropical plants Tropical crops

  5. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa No. 2 Vegetables

    This book describes the cultivated and wild vegetable species of tropical Africa. Comprehensive descriptons are give of about 110 important vegetable species. The accounts are presented in a detailed format and illustrated with a line drawing and a distribution map.
    Sub-Saharan Economic Botany Africa Vegetables

  6. Tropical Fruits: Volume 1

    01.01.2011 The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated and expanded to include best handling...
    Postharvest Systems Botany Tree Management Fruit Tree Management Pineapple Papaya Mango Litchi Avocado Horticulture Tropical Fruit

  7. Manual of Highland Ethiopian Trees

    01.01.2001 The SIM Forestry study Project began in 1999 to bring together various sources of information about highland Ethiopian trees and shrubs, and to identify trees and shrubs that should be further propagated.
    Botany Ethiopia Trees

  8. Useful Plants of Ghana: West African Uses of Wild and Cultivated Plants

    Kew botanists have studied African plants for two centuries, and are now co-operating with Practical Action Publishing to produce this book which will be a constant source of interest and reference internationally. The book, while of great interest to specialists, is aimed at the average reader....
    Economic Resources Useful Plants West Africa Botany Ghana

  9. Useful plants of Malawi

    This book includes a descriptive account of plants, mostly indigenous, which are of use to the peoples of Malawi. The majority of the plants are used in some way or other as food. They are listed under their botanical names in alphabetical order.
    Malawi Economic Resources Botany Useful Plants Edible Plants

  10. Tropical crops: a textbook of economic botany

    This textbook is designed principally for university and college students reading for degrees and diplomas in Botany and Agriculture but will also be useful in studies of ethnobotany, food science, archaeology and nutrition, or indeed to anyone with a concern for our natural resources. The text...
    Economic Botany Tropical crops