Vegetation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia = Ghita' al-Nabati lil-Mamlakah al-'Arabiyah al-Sa'udiyah /
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Companion to: Muqaddimah fi al-tarikh al-tabi'i lil-Mamlakah al-'Arabiyah al-Sa'udiyah / Wizarat al-Zira'ah wa-al-Miya�h, al-Mamlakah al-'Arabiyah al-Sa'udiyah.
Includes indexes. :
689 pages : illustrations, maps ; 33 cm. :
9960180115
Travellers in Ottoman lands : the botanical legacy /
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This splendidly illustrated work focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire - including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula - as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xxii, 358 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps :
Specialized. :
9781784919160 (ebook) :
The plant contract : art's return to vegetal life /
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The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004360549 :
2213-0659 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Breeding crops with resistance to diseases and pests /
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Breeding crops with resistance to diseases and pests' is the most up-to-date textbook on this topic targeted towards students in Plant Sciences. This book describes the most basic elements in plant pathogen interactions and defence strategies in plants. The scientific background is explained as far as it is relevant for breeders to make sensible choices in designing and running their breeding work. A major part of the book presents the options plant breeders have to consider such as what strategy to follow, what aspects to evaluate or measure, and whether it is best to apply mixtures of pathotypes or to test pathotypes one by one. Professionals, notably in the field of Plant Breeding, may also use it as a manual for disease resistance breeding. The book should be of interest to anyone interested in plant defence strategies and the enhancement of resistance in modern cultivars. In order to enliven and illustrate the text, background reading, interesting examples and exceptions, concrete cases of application and further reading are given. Supplementary reading is readily distinguished from the main text by a different typography, so it is clear what material is most relevant and what is meant as examples supporting the main story lines. Most sections are followed by exercises so that students can test whether they understood the material that was presented.
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1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789086868827