The Origin Of Plants

Author : KENRICK PAUL
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ORIGIN EARLY DIVERS LAND PLANT PB written by KENRICK PAUL and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 1997-08-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive application of cladistics to the massive body of data on both living and fossil plants, this book clarifies phylogenetic patterns within and among basal groups of land plants. In its analysis of the patterns and processes underlying the origin of land plants, the book sheds light on central questions surrounding the initial assembly of terrestrial ecosystems.

Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634228X
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Evolution written by Karl J. Niklas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce differently than animals, they have evolved differently, and generally accepted evolutionary views—as, for example, the standard models of speciation—often fail to hold when applied to them. Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as paleobotany, Karl J. Niklas’s Plant Evolution offers fresh insight into these differences. Following up on his landmark book The Evolutionary Biology of Plants—in which he drew on cutting-edge computer simulations that used plants as models to illuminate key evolutionary theories—Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new research in the flourishing field of molecular biology, conveying not only why the study of evolution is so important, but also why the study of plants is essential to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Niklas shows us that investigating the intricacies of plant development, the diversification of early vascular land plants, and larger patterns in plant evolution is not just a botanical pursuit: it is vital to our comprehension of the history of all life on this green planet.

Author : Maggie Campbell-Culver
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473509327
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin Of Plants written by Maggie Campbell-Culver and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of Britain's plant biodiversity and a unique account of how our garden landscape has been transformed over 1000 years, from 200 species of plant in the year 1000 to the astonishing variety of plants we can all see today. Thousands of plants have been introduced into Britain since 1066 by travellers, warriors, explorers and plant hunters - plants that we now take for granted such as rhododendron from the Far East, gladiolus from Africa and exotic plants like the monkey puzzle tree from Chile. Both a plant history and a useful reference book, Maggie Campbell-Culver has researched the provenance and often strange histories of many of the thousands of plants, exploring the quirky and sometimes rude nature of the plants, giving them a personality all of their own and setting them in their social context. The text is supported by beautiful contemporary paintings and modern photographs in 2 x 8 pp colour sections.

Author : K. J. Willis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198500650
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Plants written by K. J. Willis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a broad but provocative examination of the evolution of plants from the earliest forms of life to the development of our present flora. Taking a fresh, modern approach to a subject often treated very stuffily, the book incorporates many recent studies on the morphological evolution of plants, enlivens the subject with current research on ancient DNA and other biomolecular markers, and places plant evolution in the context of climate change and mass extinction. Also includes special Biome Maps, showing the flora on the Earth's surface at different geological ages. Written for a non-specialist audience.

Author : Alphonse de Candolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin of Cultivated Plants written by Alphonse de Candolle and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James F. Hancock
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9781780641423
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species written by James F. Hancock and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant domestication, covering some cereal grains, protein plants, starchy staple and sugar crops, as well as fruit, vegetable, fibre and oil crops. A chapter on ex situ and in situ conservation of germplasm resources is included.

Author : Bill Laws
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781770855885
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History written by Bill Laws and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating stories of the plants that changed civilizations.

Author : N. I. Vavilov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521404273
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants written by N. I. Vavilov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all of Vavgilov's works on the origin and geography of cultivated plant species.

Author : Wilson N. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521382946
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants written by Wilson N. Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.

Author : Linda E. Graham
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471615279
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin of Land Plants written by Linda E. Graham and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1993-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical, synthetic and comprehensive account offering discussion of early environments, the history of thought on land plant origins, various approaches used to study early plant evolution and the characteristics of green algae. Includes new ideas regarding evolution, comparative studies of fossil plants and carbon availability. Features abundant illustrations and an extensive bibliography.