This notes covers the following topics: The Plant Cell and the Cell
Cycle, The Organization of the Plant Body: Cells, Tissues, and Meristems, The
Shoot System: The Stem and the Form and Structure of Leaves,The Root System,
Concepts of Metabolism, Respiration, Photosynthesis, Absorption and Transport
systems, Life Cycles: Meiosis and the Alternation of Generations, The Flower and
Sexual Reproduction, Seeds and Fruits, Control of Growth and Development,
Genetics, Biotechnology, Evolution and Systematics, Archaea, Bacteria, and
Viruses, Kingdom Fungi, The Protists, Bryophytes, The Early Tracheophytes,
Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, Ecosystems and Plant Populations, Plant Communities.
Author(s): Terence M. Murphy, Thomas L. Rost, Michael G.
Barbour
This book explains the
following topics: What is Plant Propagation, Propagation in the Past, Modern
Propagation, Sexual Increase of Plants, Vegetative Propagation, Tools and
Equipment, Soils and Growing Media, Propagation in Different Climates, The
Propagation Environment, Plant Problems, Taking Cuttings, Sowing Seeds, Grafting
and Budding, Layering.
This
book explains the following topics: The Propagation Environment, Biology of
Plants, Development of Seeds, Seed Selection, Seed Production and Handling,
Principles of Propagation from Seeds, Techniques of Propagation by Seeds and
Cuttings, Principles of Grafting and Budding, Techniques of Grafting,
Propagation by Specialized Stems and Roots, Principles and Practices of Clonal
Selection, Principles of Tissue Culture and Micropropagation, Techniques for
Micropropagation and Grafting.
Author(s): Dr. Mark C. Starret, The University of Vermont
One
class embraces the functions relating to the life of the individual organism.
These functions have to do with the processes of eating, digesting,
assimilating, taking in of oxygen, producing of energy, and excreting of waste
matters. These may be called the nutritive functions, if the term is used in its
broadest sense. To the second group of activities belong the functions that have
to do with the perpetuation of the animal or plant species, and these are known
as the reproductive functions. Living organisms, whether plant, animal, or
human, may, in the third place, be considered in their relations to one another
and especially to the general welfare of mankind. Thus we may discuss the
beneficial or injurious effects, so far as man is concerned, of different kinds
of insects or of various types of bacteria; we may learn of the activities of
individual men or of groups of individuals which promote or retard the advance
of human society; or we might, if we were to carry the study still farther, even
seek to learn the ways by which the higher thoughts of mankind, as expressed in
poetry, music, and religion, affect the development of the human race.
Author(s): James Edward Peabody and Arthur Ellsworth Hunt
This lecture note is
targeted to plant scientists who may wish to use tissue culture and produce
transgenic plants at some point in their research careers, but do not
necessarily want to become experts in this area. This note explains the concepts
of plant tissue culture and transformation and provide hands-on experience of
the most common of these techniques in labs and demonstrations of more advanced
or uncommon techniques.