This book covers the following
topics: Introduction to Horticulture and Plant Physiology, Basic Botany,
Plant Propagation, Soils and Fertilizers, Horticultural Equipment Management,
Plant Management, Backyard Composting, Pesticide Management and Safety, Basic
Entomology, Insect Management, Rodents, Birds, and Other Pests, Plant Disease
Diagnosis and Management, Weeds, Landscaping, Landscape Plants, Woody
Landscape Plants, Herbaceous Ornamentals, Principles of Vegetable Culture,
Vegetable Crop Recommendations, Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Houseplants and Home
Greenhouses and Organic Gardening.
This note covers the following topics: Study of
Taxonomical Features of Plants, Plant Tissue System, Secondary Growth in Plants
, Microsporogenesis, Pollen Germination and Pollen Viability, Ovules, Embryo
sac, Endosperm and Embryo, Protandry, Protogyny and Heterostyly, Seed Dormancy,
Ecological Study of Different Life-forms , Study of Soil Features , Economic
Botany of Plant Fibers and Vegetable oils , Scientific Visit , Technique of
Plant Tissue Culture.
Author(s): Vardhman
Mahaveer Open University, Kota
The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and
edited by an expert active in the medical research area. All chapters are
complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This
publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts
by international authors on herbs and spices, and opening new possible research
paths for further novel developments.
This book is intended primarily for travelers and flower lovers who wish a short
cut to recognizing flowers seen on excursions or from car windows. It consists
of the twenty-five color plates to be found in Rocky Mountain Flowers, representing one hundred and seventy-five of the
most beautiful and striking flowers of the mountains and plains of the West.
This book will add to the scientific knowledge of the readers on the
molecular aspects of plants. This book will help to strengthen the scientific
background of the readers on plants and deliver the message regarding plants for
the future, in food security, health, industry, and other areas.
Pollination process is the transfer of
pollen grains from the anther, which is the male structure of the flower, to the
sigma on the female structure of the flower. The chapters of this book present
results in research undertaken to improve productivity in crops such as
Actinidia chinensis, Theobroma cacao, and Manicaria saccifera.
This book
explains more about neem trees and the many uses for their fruits and leaves.
The purpose of this book is to marshal the various facts about neem, to help
illuminate its future promise, and to speed realization of its potential.