Author: Brenda Little
Publisher: Silverleaf Press
Keywords: plants, hurt, planting, companion, secrets
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933317930
ISBN-13: 9781933317939

Transform a messy, tangled garden into a lush, productive retreat with this simple yet thorough handbook. The basics of companion gardening can be easily integrated into one’s gardening style using the nurturing power of Mother Nature and taking fundamental principles into account. Not merely a seasonal occupation or hobby, companion planting is a natural way to restore balance to outdoor spaces. By planting certain plants in close proximity, each helps the others. Easily implemented techniques such as increasing the essential oils and nutrients in plants, conditioning the soil, and attracti

中文参考译名:在植物与真菌发病作物（书籍在土壤，植物和环境）
Author: P. Vidhyasekara
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: plants, soils, environment, books, crops, pathogenesis, fungal
Number of Pages: 553
Published: 1997-07-25
List price: $239.95
ISBN-10: 0824700392
ISBN-13: 9780824700393

This comprehensive reference covers various aspects of molecular plant pathology from the molecular basis of host defense mechanisms and molecular events leading to the suppression of defense mechanisms by fungal pathogens to fungal infection processes, including initial contact, penetration, and subsequent evasion of postpenetration defense mechanisms. Documenting and illustrating the most recent experimental results and hypotheses in depth, Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops discusses molecular events of pathogenesis elicitor-suppressor theory signal transduction process cell wall modif

中文参考译名:太浩湖流域的植物：开花植物，树木和蕨类植物
Author: Michael Graf
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: plants, ferns, trees, basin, tahoe, flowering
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1999-08-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520215419
ISBN-13: 9780520215412

This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the trees, ferns, and flowering plants of the Tahoe Basin. Covering more than 600 species, many of them rare, and with over 300 color photographs, here is the most complete and up-to-date wildflower guide available for this floristically rich region. Michael Graf discusses native higher vascular plants: flowering plants, ferns and their allies, and conifers. He covers the Tahoe region from Desolation Wilderness in the west to the Carson Range in the east and includes Donner Lake and Pass, Sagehen Meadows, Castle Peak, Pole Creek,

Author: Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: plants, death, life
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1998-11-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0299159043
ISBN-13: 9780299159047

"A most exciting, erudite, and stylish work. I can think of no one other than Simoons who could have written it."-Robin Donkin, Cambridge University "It dazzles as a piece of scholarship."-Daniel W. Gade, University of Vermont Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician, did not himself eat fava beans in any form; in fact, he banned his followers from eating them. Cultural geographer Frederick Simoons disputes the contention that Pythagoras established that ban because he recognized the danger of favism, a disease that afflicts genetically-predisposed individuals who consume fava

Author: Klaus Kubitzki
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plants, genera, vascular, families, lilianae, monocotyledons, flowering, orchidaceae
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $559.00
ISBN-10: 3540640606
ISBN-13: 9783540640608

Volumes III and IV of this encyclopaedia provide a novel classification of the monocotyledons, a group encompassing plants of most diverse life-forms such as aquatics, terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, and tall trees. Of the 106 families now recognized 104 are treated in the two volumes, while the economically or horticulturally important grass and orchid families are relegated to two subsequent volumes. The classification followed here is based on recent molecular studies as well as on the vast body of information available on this plant group. The wealth and precision of information, but also

Authors:Klaus Kubitzki, Clemens Bayer,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plants, vascular, genera, dicotyledons, flowering, families
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $449.00
ISBN-10: 3540428739
ISBN-13: 9783540428732

This encyclopaedia contains a comprehensive treatment of the taxonomy of the families and genera of ferns and seed plants. The present volume, the fifth in this series, deals with three major groups of dicotyledons, the Capparales, Malvales, and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. The taxonomy of these groups, which comprise 40 families and 752 genera, is based on the results of the most recent research. This is especially true of the families Cruciferae and Malvaceae, to which more than two thirds of the genera treated in this volume belong. The integration of morphological information and the resul

Authors:R.L. Phillips, Indra K. Vasil,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plants, molecular, biology, cellular, advances, markers, dna, based
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2001-04-30
List price: $349.00
ISBN-10: 0792368657
ISBN-13: 9780792368656

Until fairly recently genetic maps of higher plants were based almost entirely on morphological and biochemical traits. These maps are rapidly being replaced and/or supplemented with DNA-based marker maps based on the use of powerful new molecular techniques. The new high-precision maps can be developed with comparative ease and rapidity. They have a much higher density of markers, which allows revelation of more and more restricted segments of the genome. One of the many revolutionary aspects of this technology is that linkage between molecular markers and traits of interest can often be det