Botany & Plant Sciences

Serotonin and Melatonin: Their Functional Role in Plants, Food, Phytomedicine, and Human Health highlights the significance of the plant sources of...

Lichens make excellent material for field studies throughout the year and are valuable for the detection and mapping of pollution. This book provid...

Plant Proteins: Farm to Table addresses all aspects of plant proteins, including plant science, chemistry, processing, formulations, nutrition, and...

Exogenous Priming and Engineering of Plant Metabolic and Regulatory Genes: Stress Mitigation Strategies in Plants provides insights into metabolic ...

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 187, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advanc...

HONG De-Yuans three-volume monograph of the popular genus Paeonia is a comprehensive taxonomic revision, based on extensive field observations, pop...

Plants That Kill is not a field guide, clinical care manual, or pharmacology textbookit is a fascinating and beautifully presented natural history ...

The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi,...

Split into seven sections, Kew Guide covers Kews history, its plants, trees, art, architecture and changing landscape. It also looks forward, outli...

Grasses and bamboos are part of the same botanical group, the grass family, also called Poaceae, a family with an estimated 12,000 species. Grasses...

Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative te...

This is the first comprehensive book to cover every vascular plant family in the world, including all families of lycopods, ferns, gymnosperms and ...

This is the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region, from Sind to New Guinea. Based on Peter Ashtons working field e...

A critical, illustrated Flora of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, designed to treat phanerogams as well as cryptogams of the area. Publication t...

Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of many people. These systems vary greatly in their underlying belie...

Drawing on information from the TIPAs database, The Important Plant Areas of Mozambique includes colour maps and photographs, site descriptions and...

The book follows contemporary classifications and is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs throughout. Each group has a family desc...

PERCEPTIVE SOLUTIONS for those who want to know how NUTRITIOUS FOOD can be grown. Practical SURVIVAL guide for FARMERS to show them how to meet the...

This is the first up to date and comprehensive checklist of the vascular plants of Jordan. The book covers 112 families and all species (including ...

A critical, illustrated Flora of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, designed to treat phanerogams as well as cryptogams of the area. Publication t...

This is the first field guide dealing with the seed plants of the lowlands of East Sabah, Malaysia, and features the 84 most commonly encountered f...

In China, the cultivated tree peony is known as the King of Flowers, while in ancient Greece the herbaceous peony was dubbed the Queen of Herbs--a ...

A descriptive account of the Acanthaceae (Part 2) native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamen...