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 PDF Plant
Nomenclature and Taxonomy covers the following topics related to Botany :
Introduction, Taxonomy and Systematics, Wild and Cultivated Plants, Species
Concepts in Wild Plants, Morphological Species Concepts, Interbreeding Species
Concepts, Ecological Species Concepts, Cladistic Species Concepts, Eclectic
Species Concepts, Nominalistic Species Concept.
Author(s): David M. Spooner, Wilbert L. A.
Hetterscheid, Ronald G. van den Berg, Willem A. Brandenburg
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 covers new
information on using metabolomics and nanotechnology in agriculture. The topics
in this book are practical and user-friendly. They allow practitioners,
students, and academicians with specific background knowledge to feel confident
about the principles presented on a new generation of molecular plant
biotechnology applications.
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.