Proceedings of an International Symposium, Taiwan, 13-18 August 1992 This publication is a unique collection of papers that collectively give valuable insights into plant stressproblems and how these might be solved through collaborative research using both traditional approaches and the latest...
In this publication the author proposes to explore the historical roots of plant germplasm collection and preservation, for an understanding of the long history of exchange of plant material and the ways in which living plants have been conserved will help put the current debate over management...
01.01.1959 This book includes factual description of all the main groups of vascular plants. It will dispaly the procedures, general principles, and objectives of comparative morphology. (the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.)
This book is a comprehensive reference work of the most valuable useful plants of all parts of the U.S., calling attention to the special merits of the plants.
01.01.1968 This book tells how to create a beautiful (and easily and economically maintained) gardens using plants that require a minimum of water. Wherever you live, and whatever the size of your garden, here's the book that will help you maintain it more easily and economically. It will be invaluable for...
IPGRI has four main elements in its work on plant genetic resources:strengthening national programmes, contributing to international collaboration, improving strategies and technologies for conservation, providing an internaional information serivce.
01.01.1977 In this book the word "nut" is defined as any hardshelled fruit or seed of which the kernel is eaten by mankind. Dicots,(Dicotshave two seed leaves inside the seed coat) Monocots, (Monocotshave only one seed leaf inside the seed coat) and Gymnosperms (a plant that has seeds unprotected by an...
The book lists a number of plants with a culinary history and suggests new ones, not in the wilderness where recent interest has already resulted in numerous books, but in your own garden where you like to work, relax and entertain, where familiar plants can play exciting new roles. We have...
This compendium is a list of names, synonyms, altitudinal limits, propagation methods, pests, diseases, edible parts, food values of food plants of Papua New Guinea.