APPLIED BOTANY

APPLIED BOTANY
Author: Ratikanta Maiti
Publisher: American Academic Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 163181866X

With new discoveries and inventions in science, application of botany has attained many dimensions. Besides the conventional application of botanical sciences, forensic botany; nanobotany; phytoremideation and phytominimg; environmental impact assessment, seed quality enhancement through priming are the new dimensions of applied botany. The industrial applications of botany are in paper pulp, rubber, dye and gum industries. At social front, besides providing the livelihood and employment through cultivation of crops, the branches of botany like community forestry are playing major role in the upliftment of folks. Use of mechanisms of carnivorous plants in plant protection; and management of invasive plants for economic gains and conservation of biodiversity are new challenges in applied botany.

Economic Botany

Economic Botany
Author: S. L. Kochhar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2016-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 110711294X

"Provides vivid information about the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication, distribution and crop improvement"--

World Economic Plants

World Economic Plants
Author: John H. Wiersema
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1336
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1466576812

Given the frequent movement of commercial plants outside their native location, the consistent and standard use of plant names for proper identification and communication has become increasingly important. This second edition of World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference is a key tool in the maintenance of standards for the basic science underlyin

Economic Botany

Economic Botany
Author: Pandey B.P.
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9788121903417

For The Students of B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Competitive Examinations

Economic Botany

Economic Botany
Author: S. L. Kochhar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316675394

This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide. It provides detailed discussion on the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication and distribution, and crop improvement. The text starts with the origin and diversification of cultivated plants, followed by discussion on tropical, subtropical and temperate crops that are sources of food, beverages, spices and medicines, as well as plant insecticides, timber plants and essential oil-yielding plants. The genetic and evolutionary aspects of different plants and their health benefits are highlighted. The book covers topics dealing with biodiversity conservation, petro-crops, ethnobotanical studies, and important sub-tropical and temperate plants that have commercial importance. The significance of major plant species under each category is described in detail. Illustrated with numerous well-labelled line diagrams and pictures, this book will be useful for students of botany, food and nutrition, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, plant breeding and environmental science.

Florida Ethnobotany

Florida Ethnobotany
Author: Daniel F. Austin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2004-11-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0203491882

Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri

Plants as Persons

Plants as Persons
Author: Matthew Hall
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011-05-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438434308

Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.