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Botany : an introduction to plant biology / James D. Mauseth

By: Mauseth, James D [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Burlington : Jones and Barlett Learning, 2021Edition: Seventh edition.Description: xix, 843 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781284157352 (hardback).Subject(s): BotanyDDC classification: 580
Contents:
Welcome to botany. Introduction to plants and botany -- Overview of plant life -- Ethnobotany: plants and people -- Plant structure. Cell structure -- Growth and division of cells -- Tissues and the primary growth of stems -- Leaves -- Roots -- Structure of woody plants -- Flowers and reproduction -- Plant physiology and development. Energy metabolism: photosynthesis -- Energy metabolism: respiration -- Transport processes -- Soils and mineral nutrition -- Development and morphogenesis -- Genes and the genetic basis of metabolism and development -- Genetics and evolution. Genetics -- Population genetics and evolution -- Classification and systematics -- Algae and the origin of eukaryotic cells -- Nonvascular plants: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts -- Vascular plants without seeds -- Seed plants I : seed plants without flowers ("gymnosperms") -- Seed plants II: angiosperms -- Ecology. Populations and ecosystems -- Community ecology -- Biomes
Summary: "Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of plant science. No botany text better connects structure to function and does so with higher quality art and imagery. Combining strong scientific grounding with an approachable writing style, Botany teaches and engages. The essentials to a foundational understanding of plant science are all there, including structure, genetics and evolution, physiology and development, and ecology. The text continues to lead with the latest material on molecular biology, plant biotechnology, and the most recent coverage of taxonomy and phylogeny of plants to keep students on the forefront of cutting-edge botanical research"-- Provided by publisher
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 580 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module BOTA6001 - Supplementary reading. 00219655
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Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of plant science. No botany text better connects structure to function and does so with higher quality art and imagery. Combining strong scientific grounding with an approachable writing style, Botany teaches and engages. The essentials to a foundational understanding of plant science are all there, including structure, genetics and evolution, physiology and development, and ecology. Now in an updated seventh edition, the text continues to lead with the latest material on molecular biology, plant biotechnology, and the most recent coverage of taxonomy and phylogeny of plants to keep students on the forefront of cutting-edge botanical research. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition is the clear choice for students digging into this exciting science.

Includes index

Welcome to botany. Introduction to plants and botany -- Overview of plant life -- Ethnobotany: plants and people -- Plant structure. Cell structure -- Growth and division of cells -- Tissues and the primary growth of stems -- Leaves -- Roots -- Structure of woody plants -- Flowers and reproduction -- Plant physiology and development. Energy metabolism: photosynthesis -- Energy metabolism: respiration -- Transport processes -- Soils and mineral nutrition -- Development and morphogenesis -- Genes and the genetic basis of metabolism and development -- Genetics and evolution. Genetics -- Population genetics and evolution -- Classification and systematics -- Algae and the origin of eukaryotic cells -- Nonvascular plants: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts -- Vascular plants without seeds -- Seed plants I : seed plants without flowers ("gymnosperms") -- Seed plants II: angiosperms -- Ecology. Populations and ecosystems -- Community ecology -- Biomes

"Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of plant science. No botany text better connects structure to function and does so with higher quality art and imagery. Combining strong scientific grounding with an approachable writing style, Botany teaches and engages. The essentials to a foundational understanding of plant science are all there, including structure, genetics and evolution, physiology and development, and ecology. The text continues to lead with the latest material on molecular biology, plant biotechnology, and the most recent coverage of taxonomy and phylogeny of plants to keep students on the forefront of cutting-edge botanical research"-- Provided by publisher

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James MausethThe University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative BiologyEducation:B.S., University of Washington at Seattle, 1970' 'Ph.D., University of Washington at Seattle, 1975Research:Research in his lab centers on evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure. They use cacti as model organisms because the family contains a great amount of structural/developmental diversity and because the cactus genus Pekeskia retains numerous relictual characters. Plants of Pereskia have hard woody stems and ordinary large leaves. From ancestors like this, morphogenic mechanisms have evolved into ones capable of controlling the differentiation of various types of highly modified wood, unusual types of cortex that have leaf-like features, and apical meristems that minimize the number of mitoses necessary to produce large plants. Because each evolutionary line in the family has undergone particular types of modification of the morphogenic mechanism, they can compare different types of differentiation of a particular tissue, each type controlled by homologous morphogenic mechanisms.