Tag: Botany

Free Download Progress in Botany Vol. 85
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303177342X | 683 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 106 MB
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. This latest volume includes reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics, forests, and ecosystems.

Free Download Botany For Dummies, 2nd Edition by René Fester Kratz
English | October 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1394273894 | 403 pages | True PDF | 32.15 MB
Harvest basic botany knowledge from this abundant book

Free Download L. Kapoor, "Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology"
English | 1995 | pages: 349 | ISBN: 1560249234 | PDF | 517,3 mb
Here is an in-depth examination of the opium poppy-the first medicinal plant known to mankind. In Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology, author L. D. Kapoor provides readers with a comprehensive resource on poppy production from seed to alkaloid. He explores the opium poppy?s origin, distribution, chemistry, and uses and abuses from ancient civilizations through the present day. He covers plant and seed production and crop improvement and explores in detail the chemical and pharmaceutical by-products of the opium poppy. The book begins with a historical overview of the origin and use of opium poppy in ancient civilizations such as Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. Chapters that follow contain detailed information on:

Free Download Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (Feminist Technosciences) by Banu Subramaniam
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0295752459, 0295752467 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 6.8 MB
An accessible foray into botany’s origins and how we can transform its future

Free Download Bruce Schaffer, "The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses"
English | 2013 | pages: 584 | ISBN: 1845937015 | PDF | 11,5 mb
Although avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9,000 years near its center of origin in Latin America, world production and trade has increased dramatically over the past few decades. The avocado is now a widely traded fruit between warmer and colder countries as a result of the global community becoming increasingly aware of the versatility and nutritional value of this crop. For the past decade, the world avocado industry has been going through a period of rapid technological change and innovation. The dietary value of "the most nutritious of all fruit" is also receiving more attention. This fully updated new edition of the successful 2002 book will provide a comprehensive review of avocado production, science and technology.

Free Download Sisir Mitra, "Jackfruit: Botany, Production and Uses"
English | ISBN: 1800622295 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 52 MB
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), is a species of tree in the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family (Moraceae) and is widely esteemed in tropical Asia. The jackfruit tree is well-suited to tropical lowlands, and is widely cultivated throughout south and southeast Asia. It is also grown to a limited extent in Australia, USA, East Africa, as well as in Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Free Download Gum Karaya; Botany, Gum Tapping, Applications, and Biotechnology
by T. Pullaiah
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032573430 | 193 pages | True PDF | 8.07 MB

Free Download I. Roth, H. Lindorf, "South American Medicinal Plants: Botany, Remedial Properties and General Use"
English | 2002 | pages: 498 | ISBN: 3540419292, 3642075444 | PDF | 104,7 mb
This unique reference book meticulously lists a vast variety of the extensive South American flora, in particular the one of Venezuela. Pharmacists, pharmacologists, toxicologists and botanists will find that this encyclopaedia unprecedented in depth and detail. In an A-Z format, more than 80 plant families are covered. Botanical information of the individual species is given together with their specific use in traditional South American medicine. More than 250 detailed figures allow easy identification.

Free Download Petra Kuppers, "Gut Botany "
English | ISBN: 0814347630 | 2021 | 96 pages | EPUB | 533 KB
Gut Botany charts my body / language living on indigenous land as a white settler and traveler," Petra Kuppers writes in the notes of her new poetry collection. Using a perfect cocktail of surrealist and situationist techniques, Kuppers submits to the work and to the land, moving through ancient fish, wounded bodies, and the space around her. The book invites the reader to navigate their own body through the peaks and pitfalls of pain, survival, sensual joy, and healing.

Free Download Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada edited by Ann Shteir
English | August 9, 2022 | ISBN: 0228011124 | True PDF | 488 pages | 370 MB
When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field.