Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops

Edited by Matthew A Jenks, Paul M Hasegawa and S. Mohan Jain

Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry ....

Ancient Herbs

Marina Heilmeyer

The forty plants presented in this book comprise both herbs and other plants that were important for culinary, medicinal and cult purposes in classical antiquity. Thus olive ....

Botrytis: Biology, Pathology and Control

Edited by Y Elad, B Williamson, P Tudzynski and N Delen

This book is the result of intensive work of 43 authors, all of whom are leading scientists in the Botrytis sciences. Each chapter describes a particular aspect of ....

The Botanical Diary of Eleanor Vachell

Edited by M Forty and T Rich

Eleanor Vachell was an outstanding amateur botanist from Cardiff. Her botanical diary tells the stories of her botanical adventures with her friends and many of the other ....

Botany for Gardeners

Brian Capon

New edition of this excellent introduction to botany for gardeners. ....

Botanical Latin

History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology & Vocabulary

WT Stearn

First published in 1966, this book has become accepted worldwide as the standard work of reference on this important subject. With an illustrated guide to descriptive ....

Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes

Edited by Michel Conan and W John Kress

From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, ....

Citrus

A History

Pierre Laszlo

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key ....

Citrus

A History

Pierre Laszlo

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key ....

Curtis's Botanical Calendar 2008

The Curtis's Botanical Calendar for 2008 features 4 colour paintings by Lilian Snelling, 2 by Christabel King, and further beautiful flower portraits by, amongst others, Pauline ....

Current Taxonomic Research on the British & European Flora

Edited by JP Bailey and RG Ellis

Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Leicester in 2003. ....

Desert Plants

A Curator's Introduction to the Huntington Desert Garden

Gary Lyons

In 2007, the Huntington celebrates the centennial of its spectacular desert garden, one of the largest such collections of cacti and other succulents in the world. Visitors to ....

A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas and the Southern Great Plains

Joel E Holloway

Castilleja coccinea, Indian Paintbrush. Scientific name: Castilleja, for Domingo Castillejo (fl. 1781), a Spanish botanist plus coccinea, Latin for scarlet. Reference is ....

Dictionary of Plant Tissue Culture

AC Cassells and Peter B Gahan

A practical, A-to-Z guide to the technical terms of plant cell, tissue, and organ culture. ....

Eating the Sun

How Plants Power the Planet

Oliver Morton

"Eating the Sun" is the story of the discovery of a miracle: the source of life itself. This book explains how biologists discovered photosynthesis and through it found a new ....

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Lore

DC Watts

Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if ....

The Encyclopedia of Fruit & Nuts

Edited by J Janick and RE Paull

This major reference offers a comprehensive collection of information on temperate and tropical fruit and nut crops. This book groups entries alphabetically by family and then ....

The Encyclopedia of Seeds

Science, Technology and Uses

Edited by Michael Black, J Derek Bewley and Peter Halmer

The encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work embracing all major facets of the subject of seeds. This one-volume book gives a unique and authoritative coverage of ....

European Community Plant Variety Protection

Gert Würtenberger et al

This book is intended as a practical guide to the European Community plant variety protection system under Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94. This system was introduced to ....

Fencing Paradise

The Uses and Abuses of Plants

Richard Mabey

In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal ....

Flowers

How they Changed the World

William C Burger

The world would be a pretty drab place without flowers. Their bright cheery colours help make our natural environment a more delightful place to be. But flowers in all their ....

Forestry and Climate Change

Edited by PH Freer-Smith, MSJ Broadmeadow and JM Lynch

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face - both in terms of its potential impact on our societies and the earth, and the scale of international ....

Fruit

Edible, Inedible, Incredible

Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler

A fascinating exploration of fruit, through a series of extraordinary images and informative text. ....

A Guide to Plant Galls in Britain

Margaret Redfern, Peter Shirley and Michael Bloxham

Galls are growths caused by the action of other organisms. They are often bizarrely shaped and highly coloured. This fold-out introductory guide looks at common galls, like ....

Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie, Band 14, Teil 7: Argentine Chaco Forests Dendrology, Tree Structure, and Economic Use

Part 2: The Humid Chaco

Ingrid Roth and Ana-Maria Gimenez

Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants

Lewis S Nelson, Richard D Shih and Michael J Balick

Plant poisoning is an important problem in the United States, and exposures to plants accounts for approximately 10% of the annual calls to the nation's Poison Control ....

Handbook of Plant Science, 2 Volume Set

Keith Roberts

Plant Science, like the biological sciences in general, has undergone seismic shifts in the last thirty or so years. Of course science is always changing and metamorphosing, ....

A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950

J Walpole

British flower painting has its own unique, if relatively recent, history, but it can only be judged in the light of the wider history of the subject and by comparison with ....

A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920

TC Smout, Alan R MacDonald and Fiona Watson

Explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement. Separate chapters contain case studies of management at Strathcarron, ....

Hortus Eystettensis Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium ex Variis Orbis Terrae Partibus Singulari Studio Collectarum, Delineatio et ad Vivum Repraesentatio, in Quator Partes Divisus.

Basilius Besler

The first facsimile edition of this classic, originally published in 1613, consists of 3 volumes in the format of 43.5 x 52.00 cm containing the facsimile of the original work ....

Hortus Veitchii

A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of The Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by Them and a List of The Most Remarkable of Their Introductions

James H Veitch

Hortus Veitchii was originally published by the famous nursery firm of James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, London in 1906 to commemorate the huge contribution made by this firm to ....

Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds

Mark Nesbitt

Grasses are of major importance to archaeobotanists and other scholars who investigate the ecology and subsistence of human populations through much of the Old World. ....

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 2006 (Vienna Code)

Adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 2005

Edited by J McNeill, FR Barrie et al

The latest edition of the botanical 'bible' for taxonomists. Includes important changes, additions and clarifications. ....

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

This title features a new translation of one of Maeterlinck's four great nature essays. ....

ISTA Handbook on Seedling Evaluation

Edited by R Don

This handbook is a most valuable guide for seed analysts the world over. Although the International Rules for Seed Testing define normal and abnormal seedlings in ....

ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names

JH Wiersam

The current List of Stabilized Plant Names represents the 5th edition of this work. Previous editions were completed and published in 1966, 1983, 1988, and 2001. ....

Key to Plants Common on Sand Dunes

Sally Edmondson and Stella Ross Craig

Covers 52 species. ....

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

Stephen Freer

Welcome paperback issue of this lovely book. ....

Monkey Puzzle Man

Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter

James McCarthy

Archibald Menzies was one of a legion of intrepid Scots plant collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries who roamed the world, and by a combination of toughness and knowledge, ....

The Naming of Names

The Search for Order in the World of Plants

Anna Pavord

For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from ....

The Naming of Names

The Search for Order in the World of Plants

Anna Pavord

For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from ....

The Names of Plants

David Gledhill

An invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known ....

A New Flowering

1000 Years of Botanical Art

S Sherwood

One thousand years of botanical art will be displayed in the Ashmolean's leading exhibition of 2005, providing the unique opportunity to compare illustrations by ....

Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences

Edited by Michael Allaby

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. It was fully revised for the second edition, with over 5500 clear and concise entries; ....

Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences

Edited by Michael Allaby

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. It was fully revised for the second edition, with over 5500 clear and concise entries; ....

Plant Associations

An Introduction to British Wild Plants and their Environmental and Human Associations

Clem Maidment

The presence of particular plant species can be used to assess the origin of a wood or a hedge, to indicate human intervention or to illustrate whether a soil is acidic, basic, ....

Plants and Empire

Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

Londa Schiebinger

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic ....

Plant Identification

Creating User-Friendly Field Guides for Biodiversity and Management

Anna Lawrence and William Hawthorne

This excellent new volume in the 'People and Plants Conservation Series' fills a long-standing gap for a practical manual to create plant identification field guides in ....

Plant Identification Terminology

An Illustrated Glossary

JG Harris and MW Harris

Provides over 1,700 clear illustrations of terms used in plant identification keys and descriptions. It also includes definitions for more than 2,400 taxonomic terms. ....

The Plant Lover's Companion

Plants, People and Places

Julia Brittain

Provides an in-depth look at plants and plant hunters from yesterday and today, from all over the world. This fascinating book gives insight into the origins of plants, where ....

Plant Names

A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature

Edited by P Lumley, R Spencer and R Cross

The book is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the ....

Plant Proteomics

Edited by Jozef Samaj and Jay Thelen

Proteomics is the large-scale functional analysis of proteins extracted from intact organisms, tissues, individual cells, or cell compartments, at defined timepoints during ....

Plants and Vegetation

Origins, Processes, Consequences

Paul A Keddy

Plants make up 99 percent of the world's living matter, provide food and shelter, and control the Earth's climate. The study of plant ecology is therefore essential to ....

Pollen

The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers

Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley

This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, ....

Practical Plant Identification

Including a Key to Native and Cultivated Flowering Plants in North Temperate Regions

James Cullen

An essential guide to identifying flowering plant families (wild or cultivated) in the northern hemisphere. Details of plant structure and terminology accompany practical keys ....

Preparing Herbarium Specimens

Lyn Fish

Deals with the practical aspects of making good herbarium specimens by concentrating on collecting, pressing, drying and mounting of different types of plants. The special ....

The Private Life of Plants - DVD

David Attenborough

Presents a fascinating view of the plant world, where events happen on a different timescale from ours. Though not obvious to the naked eye, plants are constantly on the ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 67

Genetics-Physiology-Systematics-Ecology

Edited by K Esser, U Lüttge, W Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 68

Edited by K Esser, UE Lüttge, W Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present ....

Red List of Plants and Fungi in Poland

Edited by Z Mirek, W Zarzycki, Z Wojewoda and Zbigniew Szelag

Contains the following lists: ....

Revision of Miconia sect. Chaenopleura (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) in the Greater Antilles

Walter S Judd

In the Greater Antilles, Miconia sect. Chaenopleura comprises 47 species of montane shrubs and small trees. The group is likely monophyletic and is characterized by flowers ....

RHS Encyclopaedia of Plants & Flowers

C Brickell

The classic must-have for any gardener planning, developing and nurturing their dream garden, from the experts at the RHS. This book is packed with advice on over 8,000 ....

The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Trees

Writers and Artists in the Garden

Charles Elliot

The latest in "Frances Lincoln's" series of "RHS Treasuries", this charming anthology brings together a wealth of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from the ....

Seed to Seed

The Secret Life of Plants

Nicholas Harberd

A brilliant evocation of the beauty of the natural world and an exhilarating explanation of its secret genetic workings. ....

Spezielle Geobotanik

Pflanze - Klima - Boden

Richard Pott and Joachim Hüppe

Suttons Seeds

A History 1806-2006

Earley Local History Group

The world famous seed company, Suttons, started 200 years ago at 13 King Street, Reading. For 170 years they contributed greatly to the economic and social life of the ....

Systematics of the Australian species of Rhodamnia (Myrtaceae)

Neil Snow

In Australia, nineteen species of Rhodamnia (Myrtaceae) are recognized, based on data from morphology and scanning electron microscopy, and are assigned to five informal ....

Taxonomy and Plant Conservation

Edited by Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury

This book illustrates the key role played by taxonomy in the conservation and sustainable utilisation of plant biodiversity. It is a tribute to the work of Professor ....

Ultimate Fruit and Nuts

A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food-producing plants

Susanna Lyle

This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to fruit and nut plants that explores old favourites, as well as many little-known yet exciting food-producing plants. It contains ....

World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae

David G Frodin and Rafael Govaerts

A comprehensive systematic catalogue of genera and species in the family Araliaceae, with full synonymy, source references, generic descriptions and historical accounts. ....

World Checklist and Bibliography of Campanulaceae

Thomas G Lammers

The bellflower Family Campanulaceae is found throughout the world, and includes a large number of species important in ornamental horticulture. For the past quarter century, ....

World Checklist of Cyperaceae

The World Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers and Flora

Mike Lavelle

A visual guide to more than 750 of the most important wild flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, cacti, grasses, mosses, aquatic plants and weeds. Each catalogue entry details ....