Advances in Photosynthesis

Study Guide to the Science of Botany

This note covers the following topics: Living Systems, Plants and their Uses, Introduction to Classification, Plant cells, Plant tissue, Plant organs, Plant reproduction, Plant Systematics, Division Pterophyta, Division Magnoliophyta.

Author(s): Wikibooks.org

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Botany for Ladies

Jane Loudon, the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany specifically for women. In the 18th century, botany books were mostly written for a female audience. Women were encouraged to study botany as it was considered to be an acceptable activity for women.

Author(s): Jane Loudon

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Abiotic and Biotic Stress in Plants Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

This book, explains the synthesis of information for developing strategies to combat plant stress. The information covered in this book would bridge the much-researched area of stress in plants with the much-needed information for evolving climate-ready crop cultivars to ensure food security in the future.

Author(s): Arun K. Shanker and Chitra Shanker

768 Pages

Master gardener handbook

This book covers the following topics: Introduction to Horticulture and Plant Physiology, Basic Botany, Plant Propagation, Soils and Fertilizers, Horticultural Equipment Management, Plant Management, Backyard Composting, Pesticide Management and Safety, Basic Entomology, Insect Management, Rodents, Birds, and Other Pests, Plant Disease Diagnosis and Management, Weeds, Landscaping, Landscape Plants, Woody Landscape Plants, Herbaceous Ornamentals, Principles of Vegetable Culture, Vegetable Crop Recommendations, Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Houseplants and Home Greenhouses and Organic Gardening.

Author(s): University of Idaho

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Studies of Trees

In the chapters of this book, on the identification of trees, the aim has been to bring before the student only such characters and facts as shall help him to distinguish the tree readily during all seasons of the year. Special stress is laid in each case on the most striking peculiarities. Possible confusion with other trees of similar appearance is prevented as far as possible through comparisons with trees of like form or habit.

Author(s): Jacob Joshua Levison

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A laboratory notebook of elementary botany

The purpose of this note is to to give the students a general idea of the principles of the science, rather than a comprehensive survey of the whole vegetable kingdom. In a short course of this nature it is impossible to include examples of every group, and therefore those types have been selected with which it is moat important that the student should become acquainted.

Author(s): Edward Hindle and Harold Munro Fox

262 Pages

Plant Physiology Lecture Notes/Materials

This note contains the following subtopics of Plant physiology , Plant Cells, Water and Transport, Growth/Development and Hormones, Plant Responses to the Environment and Metabolism.

Author(s): Dr. Stephen G. Saupe; College of St. Benedict/ St. John's University

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Basic Botany by Sharon Morrisey

This note covers the following topics: Nomenclature, Scientific names, Plant Anatomy and Physiology, Plant Parts, Roots, Stems, Buds, Leaves, Roots, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, roots, Factors Affecting Growth, Photoperiod, Carbon or Nitrogen Ratio.

Author(s): Sharon Morrisey

105 Pages

Fenner's Complete Formulary and Handbook Volume I and II (PDF 53P)

When in 1874, the first edition of Fenner's Complete Formulary (then a small pamphlet) was issued it was the pioneer in a new field of pharmacy, and furnished the first reliable line of formulas for elixirs and the so-called Elegant Preparations which were then coming rapidly into use.

Author(s): Byron Fenner

1296 Pages

Medicinal Plant excerpts VOLUME I Ophioglossaceae to Polygonaceae

Nathaniel Lord Britton was the first director-in-chief of The New York Botanical Garden and a giant of a taxonomist. From 1896 to 1898 he published the three-volume landmark floristic study An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada (Brown financed it), and revised it again in 1913. This book contains 149 individual plant files, each with illustration, taxonomy, distribution and current botanical name.

Author(s): Nathaniel Lord Britton

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