Research Catalog

Title

• Plants and society / Estelle Levetin, Karen McMahon.

Author

Levetin, Estelle

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2006.

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Additional Authors

McMahon, Karen

Description

xviii, 524 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.

Subject

• Botany > Textbooks
• Botany, Economic > Textbooks
• Plants > Social aspects > Textbooks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Plants and Society: The Botanical Connection to Our Lives -- Plants in Our Lives -- Introduction to Plant Life: Botanical Principles -- The Plant Cell -- The plant Body -- Plant Physiology -- Plant Life Cycle: Flowers -- Plant Life Cycle: Fruits and Seeds -- Genetics -- Plant Systematics and Evolution -- Diversity of Plant Life -- Plants as a Source of Food -- Human Nutrition -- Origins of Agriculture -- The Grasses -- Legumes -- Starchy Staples -- Feeding a Hungry World -- Commercial Products Derived from Plants -- Stimulating Beverages -- Herbs and Spices -- Materials: Cloth, Paper, and Wood -- Plant and Human Health -- Medicinal Plants -- Psychoactive Plants -- Poisonous and Allergy Plants -- Algae and Fungi: The Impact of Algae and Fungi on Human Affairs -- The Algae -- Fungi in the Natural Environment -- Beverages and Foods from Fungi -- Fungi That Affect Human Health -- Plants and the Environment -- Plant Ecology.

ISBN

0072528427 (hard copy : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004019894

OCLC

56367433

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library