Magill's encyclopedia of science : plant life / editor, Bryan D. Ness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ness, Bryan D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Encyclopedias.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1395 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California ; Hackensack, New Jersey : Salem Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""MAGILL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE: PLANT LIFE (Volume 1)""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PUBLISHER�S NOTE""; ""CONTRIBUTOR LIST""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, CHARTS, AND TABLES""; ""ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS""; ""ACID PRECIPITATION""; ""ACTIVE TRANSPORT""; ""ADAPTATIONS""; ""ADAPTIVE RADIATION""; ""AFRICAN AGRICULTURE""; ""AFRICAN FLORA""; ""AGRICULTURAL CROPS: EXPERIMENTAL""; ""AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION""; ""AGRICULTURE: HISTORY AND OVERVIEW""; ""AGRICULTURE: MARINE""; ""AGRICULTURE: MODERN PROBLEMS""; ""AGRICULTURE: TRADITIONAL""; ""AGRICULTURE: WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES""; ""AGRONOMY""

""AIR POLLUTION""""ALGAE""; ""ALLELOPATHY""; ""ALTERNATIVE GRAINS""; ""ANAEROBES AND HETEROTROPHS""; ""ANAEROBIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS""; ""ANGIOSPERM CELLS AND TISSUES""; ""ANGIOSPERM EVOLUTION""; ""ANGIOSPERM LIFE CYCLE""; ""ANGIOSPERM PLANT FORMATION""; ""ANGIOSPERMS""; ""ANIMAL-PLANT INTERACTIONS""; ""ANTARCTIC FLORA""; ""AQUATIC PLANTS""; ""ARCHAEA""; ""ARCTIC TUNDRA""; ""ASCOMYCETES""; ""ASIAN AGRICULTURE""; ""ASIAN FLORA""; ""ATP AND OTHER ENERGETIC MOLECULES""; ""AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE""; ""AUSTRALIAN FLORA""; ""AUTORADIOGRAPHY""; ""BACTERIA""; ""BACTERIAL GENETICS""

""BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND SUPER BACTERIA""""BACTERIOPHAGES""; ""BASIDIOMYCETES""; ""BASIDIOSPORIC FUNGI""; ""BIOCHEMICAL COEVOLUTION IN ANGIOSPERMS""; ""BIOFERTILIZERS""; ""BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS""; ""BIOLUMINESCENCE""; ""BIOMASS RELATED TO ENERGY""; ""BIOMES: DEFINITIONS AND DETERMINANTS""; ""BIOMES: TYPES""; ""BIOPESTICIDES""; ""BIOSPHERE CONCEPT""; ""BIOTECHNOLOGY""; ""BOTANY""; ""BROMELIACEAE""; ""BROWN ALGAE""; ""BRYOPHYTES""; ""BULBS AND RHIZOMES""; ""C4 AND CAM PHOTOSYNTHESIS""; ""CACTI AND SUCCULENTS""; ""CALVIN CYCLE""; ""CARBOHYDRATES""; ""CARBON CYCLE""

""CARBON 13/CARBON 12 RATIOS""""CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURE""; ""CARIBBEAN FLORA""; ""CARNIVOROUS PLANTS""; ""CELL CYCLE""; ""CELL THEORY""; ""CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION""; ""CELLWALL""; ""CELLS AND DIFFUSION""; ""CELLULAR SLIME MOLDS""; ""CENTRAL AMERICAN AGRICULTURE""; ""CENTRAL AMERICAN FLORA""; ""CHAROPHYCEAE""; ""CHEMOTAXIS""; ""CHLOROPHYCEAE""; ""CHLOROPLAST DNA""; ""CHLOROPLASTS AND OTHER PLASTIDS""; ""CHROMATIN""; ""CHROMATOGRAPHY""; ""CHROMOSOMES""; ""CHRYSOPHYTES""; ""CHYTRIDS""; ""CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS""; ""CLADISTICS""; ""CLIMATE AND RESOURCES""; ""CLINES""; ""CLONING OF PLANTS""; ""COAL""

""COEVOLUTION""""COMMUNITY-ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS""; ""COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND STABILITY""; ""COMPETITION""; ""COMPLEMENTATION AND ALLELISM: THE CIS-TRANS TEST""; ""COMPOSITAE""; ""COMPOSTING""; ""CONIFERS""; ""CORN""; ""CRYPTOMONADS""; ""CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT PLANTS""; ""CYCADS AND PALMS""; ""CYTOPLASM""; ""CYTOSKELETON""; ""CYTOSOL""; ""DEFORESTATION""; ""DENDROCHRONOLOGY""; ""DESERTIFICATION""; ""DESERTS""; ""DEUTEROMYCETES""; ""DIATOMS""; ""DINOFLAGELLATES""; ""DISEASES AND DISORDERS""; ""DNA: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW""; ""DNA IN PLANTS""; ""DNA: RECOMBINANT TECHNOLOGY""

""MAGILL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE: PLANT LIFE (Volume 2)""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

volume 1. Acid precipitation-DNA: recombinant technology -- volume 2. DNA replication-metabolites: primary vs. secondary -- v. 3. Microbial nutrition and metabolism -- volume 4. Sustainable forestry-zygomycetes.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-58765-086-X

9781587652588

1-58765-087-8

1-58765-258-7