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"Ever wonder if plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in this guide by botany expert Dr. Scott Zona. A Gardener's Guide to Botany is not just another book on how to grow plants. Instead, it's a lushly illustrated botanical journey into what makes plants tick, delivered in layman's terms that are easily understood and appreciated by both advanced gardeners and...
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"Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson’s and Henry David Thoreau’s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of...
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In his debut book, internationally recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias explores the curious nature of plants, revealing surprising and humorous things about their ruthless, horny, or simply cunning behavior. Using gardening, propagating houseplants, and other examples around you, In Defense of Plants will open your eyes to their hidden world. You will never see plants a just décor again!
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"Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They 'know' what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight....
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"Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity. Most gardeners learn by accumulating rules – water once a week, never dry out snowdrop bulbs, prune lilacs after flowering, plant garlic in October—the list is endless. Rules take years to learn and yet leave you floundering when the unexpected strikes and plants look unhealthy,...
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"With fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better plan our communities. It all begins and ends with plants. From the chance to live on this planet to the pleasure of listening to the sound of a violin--every story begins with a plant. There's no getting around it. We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet's biomass while plants add up to 85%....
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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together...Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries...
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"Climbing hydrangeas, vibrant dahlias, poisonous hellebores, and blood-red peonies - these are just a few of the plants that Marc Hamer cares for as the gardener of a twelve-acre estate in the Welsh countryside. The garden belongs to an isolated elderly widow whom Hamer calls Miss Cashmere, who rarely speaks to him but watches from afar. Month by month, over the course of a full calendar year, Hamer reflects on the cycles of birth, growth, life, and...
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L'industrie du cidre a connu au cours des dix dernières années, en Europe, aux États-Unis, en Australie et au Canada, une forte croissance. Avec les développements récents, mais surtout sans précédent, du portefeuille de produits, des marchés de consommation et des reconnaissances marchandes, institutionnelles et internationales pour ses cidres, la filière cidricole québécoise n'est pas en reste.
Explorant une quinzaine de champs disciplinaires,...
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Las lenguas nativas de los pueblos americanos no han sido tomadas en cuenta para el desarrollo o la enseñanza de las ciencias. Lenguas ampliamente practicadas, como el quichua, han estado ausentes en este campo. Este diccionario-que incluye 1683 especies y sus usos ancestrales-pretende tender un puente entre distintas concepciones del mundo, constituyendo el segundo esfuerzo por integrar el lenguaje científico a la sabiduría y la cosmovisión quichua,...
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Un suelo sano rebosa vida: está habitado por una asombrosa multitud de bacterias, hongos y muchos otros microorganismos. Cuando usamos fertilizantes químicos, dañamos la vida microbiana que defiende y alimenta a las plantas y, por lo tanto, nos volvemos cada vez más dependientes de un arsenal de sustancias a menudo tóxicas para hacer frente a las plagas y patógenos. Pero existe una alternativa a este círculo vicioso. Podemos cultivar un huerto...
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El Atlas de Anatomía Vegetal tiene como objetivo contribuir al conocimiento de la estructura interna del cuerpo de plantas del grupo Fanerophyta; en él se puede observar y comparar la variación entre Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledoneae y Dicotyledoneae), con base en la estructura de la planta a partir de la caracterización de sus células y tejidos así; como de la diferencia entre sus órganos según su grupo taxonómico, forma de crecimiento...
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Hay más especies de orquídeas que de mamíferos, y hay árboles más grandes que una ballena azul. Hay plantas que emergen del hielo tras miles de años de congelación, mientras que otras acumulan oro o atraen a los murciélagos con sus ecos en la oscura jungla. Es el mundo asombroso de las plantas, esos seres verdes de los que depende la supervivencia de la humanidad.
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15) Botany in Vedas
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A part from spiritual and metaphysical knowledge, Vedas are also, treasure of scientific information. Vedic mathematics, Vedic astronomy and Vedic physics have gained enormous popularity among modern scientists. Vedic botany is also a full-fledged discipline and its advocacy is the basic purpose of this book. Although literature related to botanical wisdom in Vedas are available, but they are, mostly in discrete form. Attempt has been, made to compile...
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Hong Kong possesses an impressively diverse tree flora with 390 native species. This book celebrates the incredible diversity, beauty and biology of the territory's tree species, highlighting over 100 important species that are individually illustrated in exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings by Sally Grace Bunker, an acclaimed botanical artist. The illustrations are accompanied by text that teases out a diversity of associated narratives for...
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The book encompasses chapters on fungi from different substrates including fossilized leaves. In addition to nonliving substrates, association of pathogenic fungi with important plants like Introduction, Fungal Plant Pathogens and Symptomology, Fungal Taxonomy and Plant Pathogens, Pythium Root Rot and Rhizoctonia Root Rot, Septoria Tritici Blotch (STB) of Wheat, Fungal Plant Pathogens and Symptomology, Diseases of Wheat, Biotrophic Plant Pathogens,...
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This illustrated manual describes and discusses the unusually rich and varied flora of the Carolinas, from the semi-tropical coast of South Carolina to the northern forests of the high North Carolina mountains. The manual treats in detail and in a concise format more than 3, 200 species of trees, shrubs, vines, herbs and ferns that grow without cultivation in this two-state area. Special features include diagnostic illustrations, keys for identification,...
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This book covers an extensive knowledge of the author with regard to the competitive interaction of crop plants and a perennial noxious weed of the world. The author served as crop protection expert for many years in Ethiopia before he gets admitted for post graduate study at Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture in Goettingen, Germany. The result of his research work as a post graduate student was documented to demonstrate the presence...
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Get the Summary of Stefano Mancuso's The Revolutionary Genius of Plants in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Revolutionary Genius of Plants" by Stefano Mancuso presents a compelling argument for plant intelligence, demonstrating that plants possess the ability to remember, learn, and adapt without a centralized brain. Mancuso explores the concept of plant memory, citing experiments with Mimosa pudica that show...
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