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  • Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae - Secondary Metabolitesby Eckart Eich

    Springer 2008; US$ 249.99

    This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook provides a bird???s-eye view of two centuries of research on secondary metabolites of the two large Solanales families, Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae. Arranged according to their biosynthetic principles, the occurrence and chemical structures of almost all known individual secondary metabolites are... more...

  • Etymological Dictionary of Grassesby H. Trevor Clifford; Peter D. Bostock

    Springer 2007; US$ 99.99

    Containing about 15,000 entries, this dictionary provides explanations of the meaning and origins of generic and specific names of grasses, one of the largest and economically most important plant families. Of value to audience including ecologists, agronomists, anthropologists, it is also useful to people interested in the history of taxonomy. more...

  • Flowering Plants - Eudicotsby J.W. Kadereit; C. Jeffrey

    Springer 2007; US$ 349.99

    This volume contains a complete systematic treatment of the flowering plant order Asterales, comprising 12 families with ca. 1,720 genera and about 26,300 species. The order includes Compositae as the largest family of flowering plants. Based on traditional studies, several of the constituent families have long been recognized as being closely interrelated... more...

  • Trees in Patagoniaby Bernardo Gut

    Springer 2008; US$ 89.95

    A guide to the native trees and approximately 95 per cent of the introduced arboreal species of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. It features chapters that convey a survey of what is termed 'Patagonia', as well as of the geology, climate, soils, and vegetation of Southern South America. It describes the important National Parks of both regions. more...

  • Flowering Plantsby Armen Takhtajan

    Springer 2009; US$ 249.99

    Covering almost sixty years of the author's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants, this work presents a different system of plant classification based on the studies in plant morphology, embryology, phytochemistry, cytology, molecular biology and palynology. more...

  • Grasses: Systematics and Evolutionby SWL Jacobs; J Everett

    CSIRO Publishing 2000; US$ 179.00

    A selection of the very best papers from the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution held in Sydney, Australia in 1998. more...

  • Monocots: Systematics and Evolutionby Karen L Wilson; David A Morrison

    CSIRO Publishing 2000; US$ 170.00

    Presents leading work from around the world on non-grass monocotyledons and includes reviews and current research into their comparative biology, phylogeny and classification. more...

  • Burrowing Shrimps and Seagrass Dynamics in Shallow-Water Meadows off Bolinao (New Philippines)by Hildie Maria E. Nacorda

    CRC Press 2008; US$ 62.95

    Based on research in Bolinao, this book assesses the importance of small-scale disturbance by burrowing shrimps. It covers the distribution of burrowing shrimp disturbance, the behavior of the snapping shrimp Alpheus macellarius in situand as observed from tank experiments, and the effects of short-term burial and leaf clipping on the growth patterns... more...

  • Parasitic flowering plantsby Henning Heide-Jørgensen

    BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00

    Parasitic flowering plants are of great general and scientific interest besides their economic importance when attacking crop plants. This illustrated book covers various parasitic families and most of the genera and discusses the main aspects of their biology. more...

  • Clusiaby Ulrich E. Luttge

    Springer 2007; US$ 139.99

    Clusia is the only dicotyledonous tree genus with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), and, in some cases, all variants of CAM can be expressed in one given species. These unique features as well as Clusia's extreme flexibility have put it in the limelight of international research. The studies presented in this volume embrace anatomy, morphology... more...