Introduction to Plant Structure

Plant Cells and Anatomy

This PDF covers the following topics related to Plant Biology : Cell Basics, Plant Cell Structures, Dicotyledon Stem Structure, Cell Types and Plant Tissues, Secondary Growth in a Dicotyledon Stem, Monocotyledon Stem Structure, Dicotyledon Root Structure, Monocotyledon Root Structure, Growth of the Shoot and Root, Dicotyledon Leaf Structure, Monocotyledon Leaf Structure, Plant Cell Glossary.

Author(s): Myerscough College

35 Pages

Plant Propagation

This book explains the following topics: The Propagation Environment, Biology of Plants, Development of Seeds, Seed Selection, Seed Production and Handling, Principles of Propagation from Seeds, Techniques of Propagation by Seeds and Cuttings, Principles of Grafting and Budding, Techniques of Grafting, Propagation by Specialized Stems and Roots, Principles and Practices of Clonal Selection, Principles of Tissue Culture and Micropropagation, Techniques for Micropropagation and Grafting.

Author(s): Dr. Mark C. Starret, The University of Vermont

NA Pages

The Power of Movement in Plants

This book explains the following topics:The Circumnutating Movements Of Seedling Plants, General Considerations On The Movements And Growth Of Seedling Plants, Sensitiveness Of The Apex Of The Radicle To Contact And To Other Irritants, The Circumnutating Movements Of The Several Parts Of Mature Plants, Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants, Epinastic And Hyponastic Movements, Sleep Or Nyctitropic Movements, Their Use: Sleep Of Cotyledons, Nyctitropic Or Sleep Movements Of Leaves, Movements Excited By Light, Sensitiveness Of Plants To Light: Its Transmitted Effects, Localised Sensitiveness To Gravitation, And Its Transmitted Effects.

Author(s): Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Darwin

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Elementary plant biology

One class embraces the functions relating to the life of the individual organism. These functions have to do with the processes of eating, digesting, assimilating, taking in of oxygen, producing of energy, and excreting of waste matters. These may be called the nutritive functions, if the term is used in its broadest sense. To the second group of activities belong the functions that have to do with the perpetuation of the animal or plant species, and these are known as the reproductive functions. Living organisms, whether plant, animal, or human, may, in the third place, be considered in their relations to one another and especially to the general welfare of mankind. Thus we may discuss the beneficial or injurious effects, so far as man is concerned, of different kinds of insects or of various types of bacteria; we may learn of the activities of individual men or of groups of individuals which promote or retard the advance of human society; or we might, if we were to carry the study still farther, even seek to learn the ways by which the higher thoughts of mankind, as expressed in poetry, music, and religion, affect the development of the human race.

Author(s): James Edward Peabody and Arthur Ellsworth Hunt

246 Pages

Elements of plant biology

This book is intended primarily for medical students and others who do not necessarily intend to continue the study of botany, but who desire or are obliged to obtain some elementary knowledge of plants, particularly in relation to general biology. The book is based on the first portion, which deals mainly with plants, of the course in Elementary Biology for the Preliminary Examination in Science.

Author(s): Arthur George Tansley

422 Pages

Methods and Applications of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture

This lecture note is targeted to plant scientists who may wish to use tissue culture and produce transgenic plants at some point in their research careers, but do not necessarily want to become experts in this area. This note explains the concepts of plant tissue culture and transformation and provide hands-on experience of the most common of these techniques in labs and demonstrations of more advanced or uncommon techniques.

Author(s): The University of Florida

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