Definitions of all the phyla, classes, orders and families are given in this encyclopaedia. Completely comprehensive, this encyclopaedia offers concise and accessible explanation of terms from biogeology, evolution, ecology, genetics, plant physiology, biochemistry, cytology, recent taxonomical revisions and flowering and non-flowering plants.

This encyclopaedia is perfect for amateur botanists and anyone interested in world of plants (less)

The plants also are subject to various diseases. The present book provides for the requirements of the Under-Graduates and the Graduate students opting for Botany as a field of specialisation (less)

The plants are important because they are sources of food, oxygen, wood, etc., along with numerous other forest products.

An Introduction to Botany brings to the fore each and every aspect concerning plants. The book makes elucidation on anatomy of leaves, green colour of leaves and its use, flowers, fruits, ferns, moss, purposes and nomenclature of plants.

Besides providing architecture and growth of plants, the book also makes an interesting discussion of the life cycle of living beings (less)

The plants are important because they are sources of food, oxygen, wood, etc., along with numerous other forest products.

"An Introduction to Botany" brings to the fore each and every aspect concerning plants. The book makes elucidation on anatomy of leaves, green colour of leaves and its use, flowers, fruits, ferns, moss, purposes and nomenclature of plants.

Besides providing architecture and growth of plants, the book also makes an interesting discussion on the life cycle of living beings. This picturesque presentation in lucid language is of utmost importance to students, teachers and general readers (less)

Even then the good advice of the teachers go "Check and recheck your observation". Consider all the possibilities "Truth is the only aim in experimental studies".

Those who can make it, get a chance to more ahead in research, others do not (less)

Fortunately the issue is not important and no one today insists on this binary classification for all groups of organisms (less)

The main objective of this book on An Introduction to Modern Economic Botany is to provide knowledge on the utility of plant species, cultivated or in the wild stage, which are closely related with different aspects such as Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Plant Morphology and Anatomy, Plant Morphology and Anatomy, Plant Physiology, Evolution, Ecology, Food Science, Toxicology, Biotic resources, Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Agronomy and Horticulture. Basically this book is based on the knowledge of principal food, industrial and textile products, food products, as well as a vista of the geographic distribution and the morphology of some vegetable species, Apart from Plants of economic importance, the book also pretends to include some useful plants found in mexico, which are considered most important globally on the basis of their derived products.

An extensive review of literature has been made on the utilization of these resources, including the results of thesis submitted in the Biology and Agronomy Faculties of the La Universodad Autonoma de Nuevo, Leon and the Department of chemistry and Biology, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla. Mexico.

Different themes have been described clearly and easily understandable form the readers. The second part of this book discusses the results of investigation and techniques of the investigation and techniques of the investigation on plants of economic importance.

Apart from these aspects, the book mentioned the different forms of the utilization of resources and the necessities of investigation required to achieve the preservation and a better utilization of the same. This book can serve as a text of economic importance for the students at graduation level in the areas of Biology and Food Science.

This book can also be used as a reference book by the students of Agricultural Botany or Agriculture (less)

At the same time, the natural or organic food movement has necessitated that individuals become educated consumers of plant products. As a consequence, interest in studying plants of actual or potential use in feeding, clothing, housing, and warming human kind has arisen.

The present title provides a detailed coverage of the major uses of plants. To keep the text readable and relevant, efforts have been made to provide a balanced treatment of the plants discussed by including aspects of history, morphology, chemistry and modern usage (less)

Apart from numerous benefits, obtained from plants, they have been a source of medication since immemorial times. Taking all these dimensions of plants into consideration, they have been classified into different groups and every one of them has been given a unique botanical name.

A plant may have different names in different dialects of different parts of the world, but its botanical name remains one and the same the world over. This multi-volume aims at furnishing a detailed account of plants from every possible dimension.

A ready reference book for scholars and students, this Encyclopaedia is an authoritative work on the subject (less)

It has been designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students (Pass & Honours) of all the Indian universities and it will be helpful to postgraduate students in Botany as well as to the study of Agriculture and allied subjects. The author has abandoned Bentham-Hookers system and presented a new scheme of angiosperm-classification.

Although the latter scheme, like any other envisaged before, has its shortcomings, it represents the most probable natural relationship among flowering plants. Almost all the taxa prevalent in the Indian flora have been dealt with, covering 44 orders and 193 families.

Generally, each order has been discussed in the light of phylogeny and with emphasis on its general features, circum inter-relationship, origin and means of identification of various families (by bracketed keys). Those families prominent in the countrys flora have been described under six or seven different heads, depending on the available information.

Though the inconspicuous ones have not been categorised likewise, one can even find in them the array of items under each family being suitably treated. Moreover, the nomenclature of plants have been checked and brought up-to-date as far as possible.

Part One is an expose of taxonomic principles, while Parts Three and Four, deal with the dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants respectively. Under Part Two, there are certain specialised topics which have a bearing on the study of the systematic botany of angiosperms.

A list of important books and papers is inserted at the end of each Part. In brief, the author has made anattempt to give a complete picture of angiosperm systematics.

About the Author(s): Subhash Chandra Datta, Professor of Botany at the University of Calcutta, is in range of teaching and research in ecophysiology and chemical ecology of plants. He obtained his masters degree from Calcutta (1953), working under the supervision of Prof.

S.M.

Sircar. He completed his Ph.

D. under Prof.

Stuart Dunn at the University of New Hampshire (US) in 1957. He started his career as Associate Professor from Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (USA).

Before joining the University of Baghdad as Assistant Professor, he served as Senior Research Fellow at Jadavpur University. He was employed at Visva-Bharati as their first Professor of Botany in 1979 and worked as Co-ordinator of the School of Life Sciences there.

During the academic year 1968-69, he worked under Prof. Michael Evenari at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Post-doctoral Fellow.

He visited Israel for the second time in 1986 when he donned the robes of a Visiting Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1983, he toured Finland as a Visiting Professor and was a Study-Visitor (senior catagory) in Great Britain being sponsored by the Royal Society of London.

He has investigated problems of mineral nutrition, plant-growth substances, post-harvest physiology of fruits, dormancy of seeds, allelopathy, air pollution, etc. He has produced twenty-one Ph.

D. and is still guiding research.

He has published more than one hundred research papers in the journals of international repute. He is an examiner in Botany in over twenty universities in India.

Contents: Part One Principles and Practices of Taxonomy Selected Bibliography Part Two Special Topics on Angiosperms Selected Bibliography Part Three Systematic Survey of the Dicotyledonous Selected Bibliography Part Four: Systematic Survey of the Monocotyledonous Selected Bibliography. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to The term systematic botany encompasses the domain not only of the higher plants, but also of the lower plants.

Since it is not possible to treat adequately the various plant-groups under a single volume, this edition is restricted to a discussion of the angiosperms. It has been designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students (Pass & Honours) of all the Indian universities and it will be helpful to postgraduate students in Botany as well as to the study of Agriculture and allied subjects.

The author has abandoned Bentham-Hookers system and presented a new scheme of angiosperm-classification. Although the latter scheme, like any other envisaged before, has its shortcomings, it represents the most probable natural relationship among flowering plants.

Almost all the taxa prevalent in the Indian flora have been dealt with, covering 44 orders and 193 families. Generally, each order has been discussed in the light of phylogeny and with emphasis on its general features, circum inter-relationship, origin and means of identification of various families (by bracketed keys).

Those families prominent in the countrys flora have been described under six or seven different heads, depending on the available information. Though the inconspicuous ones have not been categorised likewise, one can even find in them the array of items under each family being suitably treated.

Moreover, the nomenclature of plants have been checked and brought up-to-date as far as possible. Part One is an expose of taxonomic principles, while Parts Three and Four, deal with the dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants respectively.

Under Part Two, there are certain specialised topics which have a bearing on the study of the systematic botany of angiosperms. A list of important books and papers is inserted at the end of each Part.

In brief, the author has made anattempt to give a complete picture of angiosperm systematics. About the Author(s): Subhash Chandra Datta, Professor of Botany at the University of Calcutta, is in range of teaching and research in ecophysiology and chemical ecology of plants.

He obtained his masters degree from Calcutta (1953), working under the supervision of Prof. S.

M. Sircar.

He completed his Ph.D.

under Prof. Stuart Dunn at the University of New Hampshire (US) in 1957.

He started his career as Associate Professor from Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (USA). Before joining the University of Baghdad as Assistant Professor, he served as Senior Research Fellow at Jadavpur University.

He was employed at Visva-Bharati as their first Professor of Botany in 1979 and worked as Co-ordinator of the School of Life Sciences there. During the academic year 1968-69, he worked under Prof.

Michael Evenari at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Post-doctoral Fellow. He visited Israel for the second time in 1986 when he donned the robes of a Visiting Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In 1983, he toured Finland as a Visiting Professor and was a Study-Visitor (senior catagory) in Great Britain being sponsored by the Royal Society of London. He has investigated problems of mineral nutrition, plant-growth substances, post-harvest physiology of fruits, dormancy of seeds, allelopathy, air pollution, etc.

He has produced twenty-one Ph.D.

and is still guiding research. He has published more than one hundred research papers in the journals of international repute.

He is an examiner in Botany in over twenty universities in India. Contents: Part One Principles and Practices of Taxonomy Selected Bibliography Part Two Special Topics on Angiosperms Selected Bibliography Part Three Systematic Survey of the Dicotyledonous Selected Bibliography Part Four: Systematic Survey of the Monocotyledonous Selected Bibliography.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to The term systematic botany encompasses the domain not only of the higher plants, but also of the lower plants. Since it is not possible to treat adequately the various plant-groups under a single volume, this edition is restricted to a discussion of the angiosperms.

It has been designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students (Pass & Honours) of all the Indian universities and it will be helpful to postgraduate students in Botany as well as to the study of Agriculture and allied subjects. The author has abandoned Bentham-Hookers system and presented a new scheme of angiosperm-classification.

Although the latter scheme, like any other envisaged before, has its shortcomings, it represents the most probable natural relationship among flowering plants. Almost all the taxa prevalent in the Indian flora have been dealt with, covering 44 orders and 193 families.

Generally, each order has been discussed in the light of phylogeny and with emphasis on its general features, circum inter-relationship, origin and means of identification of various families (by bracketed keys). Those families prominent in the countrys flora have been described under six or seven different heads, depending on the available information.

Though the inconspicuous ones have not been categorised likewise, one can even find in them the array of items under each family being suitably treated. Moreover, the nomenclature of plants have been checked and brought up-to-date as far as possible.

Part One is an expose of taxonomic principles, while Parts Three and Four, deal with the dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants respectively. Under Part Two, there are certain specialised topics which have a bearing on the study of the systematic botany of angiosperms.

A list of important books and papers is inserted at the end of each Part. In brief, the author has made anattempt to give a complete picture of angiosperm systematics.

About the Author(s): Subhash Chandra Datta, Professor of Botany at the University of Calcutta, is in range of teaching and research in ecophysiology and chemical ecology of plants. He obtained his masters degree from Calcutta (1953), working under the supervision of Prof.

S.M.

Sircar. He completed his Ph.

D. under Prof.

Stuart Dunn at the University of New Hampshire (US) in 1957. He started his career as Associate Professor from Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (USA).

Before joining the University of Baghdad as Assistant Professor, he served as Senior Research Fellow at Jadavpur University. He was employed at Visva-Bharati as their first Professor of Botany in 1979 and worked as Co-ordinator of the School of Life Sciences there.

During the academic year 1968-69, he worked under Prof. Michael Evenari at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Post-doctoral Fellow.

He visited Israel for the second time in 1986 when he donned the robes of a Visiting Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1983, he toured Finland as a Visiting Professor and was a Study-Visitor (senior catagory) in Great Britain being sponsored by the Royal Society of London.

He has investigated problems of mineral nutrition, plant-growth substances, post-harvest physiology of fruits, dormancy of seeds, allelopathy, air pollution, etc. He has produced twenty-one Ph.

D. and is still guiding research.

He has published more than one hundred research papers in the journals of international repute. He is an examiner in Botany in over twenty universities in India.

Contents: Part One Principles and Practices of Taxonomy Selected Bibliography Part Two Special Topics on Angiosperms Selected Bibliography Part Three Systematic Survey of the Dicotyledonous Selected Bibliography Part Four: Systematic Survey of the Monocotyledonous Selected Bibliography. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to The term systematic botany encompasses the domain not only of the higher plants, but also of the lower plants.

Since it is not possible to treat adequately the various plant-groups under a single volume, this edition is restricted to a discussion of the angiosperms. It has been designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students (Pass & Honours) of all the Indian universities and it will be helpful to postgraduate students in Botany as well as to the study of Agriculture and allied subjects.

The author has abandoned Bentham-Hookers system and presented a new scheme of angiosperm-classification. Although the latter scheme, like any other envisaged before, has its shortcomings, it represents the most probable natural relationship among flowering plants.

Almost all the taxa prevalent in the Indian flora have been dealt with, covering 44 orders and 193 families. Generally, each order has been discussed in the light of phylogeny and with emphasis on its general features, circum inter-relationship, origin and means of identification of various families (by bracketed keys).

Those families prominent in the countrys flora have been described under six or seven different heads, depending on the available information. Though the inconspicuous ones have not been categorised likewise, one can even find in them the array of items under each family being suitably treated.

Moreover, the nomenclature of plants have been checked and brought up-to-date as far as possible. Part One is an expose of taxonomic principles, while Parts Three and Four, deal with the dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants respectively.

Under Part Two, there are certain specialised topics which have a bearing on the study of the systematic botany of angiosperms. A list of important books and papers is inserted at the end of each Part.

In brief, the author has made anattempt to give a complete picture of angiosperm systematics. About the Author(s): Subhash Chandra Datta, Professor of Botany at the University of Calcutta, is in range of teaching and research in ecophysiology and chemical ecology of plants.

He obtained his masters degree from Calcutta (1953), working under the supervision of Prof. S.

M. Sircar.

He completed his Ph.D.

under Prof. Stuart Dunn at the University of New Hampshire (US) in 1957.

He started his career as Associate Professor from Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (USA). Before joining the University of Baghdad as Assistant Professor, he served as Senior Research Fellow at Jadavpur University.

He was employed at Visva-Bharati as their first Professor of Botany in 1979 and worked as Co-ordinator of the School of Life Sciences there. During the academic year 1968-69, he worked under Prof.

Michael Evenari at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Post-doctoral Fellow. He visited Israel for the second time in 1986 when he donned the robes of a Visiting Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In 1983, he toured Finland as a Visiting Professor and was a Study-Visitor (senior catagory) in Great Britain being sponsored by the Royal Society of London. He has investigated problems of mineral nutrition, plant-growth substances, post-harvest physiology of fruits, dormancy of seeds, allelopathy, air pollution, etc.

He has produced twenty-one Ph.D.

and is still guiding research. He has published more than one hundred research papers in the journals of international repute.

He is an examiner in Botany in over twenty universities in India. Contents: Part One Principles and Practices of Taxonomy Selected Bibliography Part Two Special Topics on Angiosperms Selected Bibliography Part Three Systematic Survey of the Dicotyledonous Selected Bibliography Part Four: Systematic Survey of the Monocotyledonous Selected Bibliography.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

It Has Been Designed As A Textbook For The Undergraduate Students (Pass & Honours) Of All The Indian Universities And It Will Be Helpful To Postgraduate Students In Botany As Well As To The Study Of Agriculture And Allied Subjects (less)