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    Plants and Society

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 6
    • Publisher McGraw-Hill
    • Date of Publication 16 February 2011

    • ISBN 9780071315821
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages544 pages
    • Size 254x203x17 mm
    • Weight 1093 g
    • Language English
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    This introductory, one quarter/one-semester text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors strive to stimulate interest in plant science and encourage students to further their studies in botany. Also, by exposing students to society's historical connection to plants, Levetin and McMahon hope to instill a greater appreciation for the botanical world. Plants and Society covers basic principles of botany with strong emphasis on the economic aspects and social implications of plants and fungi.

    This introductory, one quarter/one-semester text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors strive to stimulate interest in plant science and encourage students to further their studies in botany. Also, by exposing students to society's historical connection to plants, Levetin and McMahon hope to instill a greater appreciation for the botanical world. Plants and Society covers basic principles of botany with strong emphasis on the economic aspects and social implications of plants and fungi.

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    Table of Contents:

    I Plants and Society: The Botanical Connections to Our Lives

    1 Plants in Our Lives

    II Introduction to Plant Life: Botanical Principles

    2 The Plant Cell

    3 The Plant Body

    4 Plant Physiology

    5 Plant Life Cycle: Flowers

    6 Plant Life Cycle: Fruits and Seeds

    7 Genetics

    8 Plant Systematics and Evolution

    9 Diversity of Plant Life

    III Plants as a Source of Food

    10 Human Nutrition

    11 Origins of Agriculture

    12 The Grasses

    13 Legumes

    14 Starchy Staples

    15 Feeding a Hungry World

    IV Commercial Products Derived from Plants

    16 Stimulating Beverages

    17 Herbs and Spices

    18 Materials: Cloth, Wood, and Paper

    V Plants and Human Health

    19 Medicinal Plants

    20 Psychoactive Plants

    21 Poisonous and Allergy Plants

    VI Algae and Fungi: The Impact of Algae and Fungi on Human Affairs

    22 The Algae

    23 Fungi in the Natural Environment

    24 Beverages and Foods from Fungi

    25 Fungi that Affect Human Health

    VII Plants and the Environment

    26 Plant Ecology

    Appendix A Metric System

    Appendix B Classification of Plants

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