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Tree Nuts
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 199.95Nuts have been long perceived as a high-fat, high-calorie food, best avoided or consumed in moderation. Nuts also provide essential nutrients such as magnesium, chromium, zinc, and manganese. Like all plant foods they are high in fiber and phytochemicals. This book examines popular tree nuts and describes each nut's compositional characteristics. more...
Flower Breeding and Genetics
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Flowers are essential crops which beautify interiorscapes, outdoor landscapes and enhance human health. This book provides a useful resource on the many issues and challenges facing flower breeders, as well as the industry at-large. It provides crop-specific history, evolution, biology, taxonomy, state-of-the-art breeding/genetics, and others. more...
Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens
CABI 2010; US$ 190.00Amidst growing concerns about the environment and food security, the development of management strategies that minimize crop losses and promote sustainable agriculture is increasingly more important. This title presents a review of research into pathogenic fungi in a diverse selection of economically important crops, including fruits and cereals. more...
Florida Ethnobotany
CRC Press 2004; US$ 169.95This indispensable reference tool is a compilation of the ethnobotany of Florida. Emphasizing tropical plants, which are rarely covered in North American botany texts, it provides a cross-cultural study of the plants shared by different floras and peoples. It provides synopses for all native plants used by indigenous tribes in the southeast United... more...
Aliveness of Plants
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00Ayres shows how botany escaped the burdens of medicine, feminization and the sterility of classification and nomenclature to become a rigorous laboratory science. more...
Flora of Tropical East Africa: Marsileaceae
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 10.95Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with the East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University, this series is designed to the highest academic standards and is a useful reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization... more...
Plant Tissue Culture
Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 455.00Since the publication of the first edition in 1983, several new and exciting developments have taken place in the field of plant tissue culture, which forms a major component of what is now called plant biotechnology. The revised edition presents updated information on theoretical, practical and applied aspects of plant tissue culture. Each chapter... more...
Desiccation and Survival in Plants
CABI 2002; US$ 155.00This book is divided into three sections, dealing with: the technical background to desiccation tolerance studies; the frequency and levels of dehydration stress tolerance in biological systems; mechanisms of damage and tolerance. more...
Forest Trees of Australia
CSIRO Publishing 2006; US$ 125.00The classic Australian guide ? now fully revised and updated with nearly 300 of Australia?s most important native trees. more...
Plant Propagation and Conservation
Manson Publishing Ltd 1999; US$ 48.00This colour atlas has been conceived to integrate the dual botanical themes of plant propagation and conservation. Various texts deal with propagation, in vivo and in vitro, and with aspects of conservation, but none marries the two themes, let alone a book which uses the concise, focused colour atlas approach. more...









