Tag: Plants

Free Download Knowledge Encyclopedia Plants and Fungi!: Our Growing World as You’ve Never Seen It Before by DK
English | October 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 0744084717 | 208 pages | True AZW3/EPUB | 107.56 MB
DK’s best-selling, richly illustrated encyclopedia series explores the wonderful world of plants and fungi

Free Download Kew: Rare Plants: The world’s unusual and endangered plants by Ed Ikin, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
English | October 13th, 2023 | ISBN: 0233006230 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 146.69 MB
An illustrated exploration of what makes the world’s most uncommon plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so scarce.

Free Download Ethnic Knowledge and Perspectives of Medicinal Plants, Volume 1: Curative Properties and Treatment Strategies by Münir Öztürk, Volkan Altay, Maryam Sarwat, Kandikre Ramaiah Sridhar, Francisco Martín Huerta-Martínez
English | October 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 1774912279 | 634 pages | True EPUB | 23.85 MB
This new 2-volume set aims to share and preserve ethnic and traditional knowledge of herbal medicine and treatments, while also emphasizing the link between biodiversity, human nutrition, and food security. Ethnic Knowledge and Perspectives of Medicinal Plants is divided into two volumes, with volume 1 focusing on the traditional use of curative properties and treatment strategies of medicinal plants, and volume 2 addressing the varied nutritional and dietary benefits of medicinal plants and the practice of Ayurveda. Both volumes stress the importance of bioresources for human nutrition and nutraceuticals based on ethnic knowledge and the need for efforts to protect biodiversity in many regions rich with medicinal plants.

Free Download Ancient and Traditional Foods, Plants, Herbs and Spices used in Diabetes (Ancient and Traditional Foods, Plants, Herbs and Spices in Human Health) by Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032108592 | 386 pages | True EPUB | 4.86 MB
The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years. Egyptian papyrus, hieroglyphics and ancient texts from the Middle East have described the cultivation and preparations of herbs and botanicals to "cure the sick." There are even older records from China and India. Some ancient scripts describe the use of medicinal plants which have never been seen within European cultures. Indeed, all ancient civilizations have pictorial records of different foods, herbs, and spices being used for medical purposes. However, there are fundamental issues pertaining to the scientific evidence for the use of these agents or their extracts in modern medicine. These issues are explored in Ancient and Traditional Foods, Plants, Herbs and Spices Used in Diabetes.

Free Download Medicinal Plants, Phytomedicines and Traditional Herbal Remedies for Drug Discovery and Development Against COVID-19
by Rudrapal, Mithun;Egbuna, Chukwuebuka;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9815049526 | 254 pages | True PDF EPUB | 32.15 MB

Free Download Root-Galling Disease of Vegetable Plants by Faheem Ahmad, Gloria Nombela Blázquez
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 346 Pages | ISBN : 9819938910 | 49.1 MB
This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of research on vegetable plants associated with root-galls disease caused by root-knot nematodes (RKNs), Meloidogyne spp. Vegetables retain a key position in cultural cuisines and their consumption worldwide due to rich sources of micronutrients, including vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, but root galls disease of these crops caused by RKNs steals both quantity and quality from production. The field of plant nematology has experienced exponential growth over the past decade, and these RKNs are now known as widely damaging obligate plant parasites of vegetable plants. Advances are being made in understanding their biology, parasitism in the root system, giant cell development, root gall formation, chemical signalling, root-knot disease complexes, and management systems.

Free Download Plants and People in the African Past: Progress in African Archaeobotany by Anna Maria Mercuri
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 577 Pages | ISBN : 3319898388 | 129.99 MB
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes.

Free Download Mineral Biofortification in Crop Plants for Ensuring Food Security by Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Muhammad Suleman Tahir, Mohsin Tanveer, Adnan Noor Shah
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 340 Pages | ISBN : 9819940893 | 9.7 MB
This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the biofortification of plants under climate change and how it affects food security globally. The need for mineral biofortification to eradicate or alleviate malnutrition through sustainable agriculture is also discussed.

Free Download Janet Janzen, "Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture "
English | ISBN: 9004327169 | 2016 | 21600 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Media, Modernity and the Dynamic Plant, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the dynamic plant through early 20th century German culture. In examples from film and literature, she demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants to living beings.

Free Download T. K. Lim, "Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants: Volume 8, Flowers"
English | ISBN: 9401787476 | 2014 | 1037 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
Volume 8 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible flowers from Geraniaceae to Zingiberaceae (tabular) and 82 species in Geraniaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Oleaceae, Onagraceae, Orchidaceae, Paeoniaceae, Papaveraceae, Plantaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Primulaceae, Proteaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, Theaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Tyhpaceae, Violaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Zingiberaceae in detail. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists and general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/ vernacular names; origin/ distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts/uses; botany; nutritive/medicinal properties, nonedible uses and selected references.