This text is appropriate for Introduction to Plant Science courses.
This comprehensive text is written for anyone with an interest in how plants are grown and utilized for maintaining and adding enjoyment to human life. It also explores how plants have a tremendous economic impact in developed and developing nations. This new edition has been revised to reflect the most recent statistics, production methods and issues concerning the production and utilization of plants.
Comprehensive coverage-looks at a range of factors that influence not only how plants grow but why we grow them
- Text can be used in a variety of courses
- Students can use this book in introductory, plants and environment, botany and crop production courses. It could also be used in a course that teaches basic concepts of cropping or plant utilization systems.
Written for novice learners in plant sciences
- Students should be able to understand the information and see how the theories of plant science relates to the techniques we use to grow plants
- Instructors will be able to utilize the explanations and examples to help students understand the information
Written in a logical sequence
- Allows students to develop their comprehension of the science of cultivating plants. Sociological and ecological factors that influence how and why we grow plants are followed by examples that allow students to learn how everything fits together
- The factors and issues that are introduced in the beginning chapters are reinforced in later chapters
Increased use of the world wide web and access to online crop fact sheets that give information at a local level
- Specific crop production information has been replaced with foundation information.
Increased discussion of social and ecological issues and factors
- Information on climate and environment is given in the context of ecosystems and crop ecosystems and the responsible management of those systems.
Reduction of technical information
- Chapter order has been revised to better fit the topics addressed in each unit
UNIT I: Environmental, Cultural, and Social Factors that Influence the Cultivation and Utilization of Plants
CHAPTER 1: History, Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Plant Science
CHAPTER 2: Terrestial Ecosystems
CHAPTER 3: Human Impact on Ecosystems
CHAPTER 4: Climate - Solar Radiation and Moisture Availability
CHAPTER 5: Climate - Temperature, Air Movement, and Composition
CHAPTER 6: Soil and Managing Soil, Soil Water, and Fdertility
CHAPTER 7: Itegrated Management of Weeds, Insects, and Diseases
UNIT II: Plant Structure, Chemistry, Growth and Development, Genetics, and Biodiversity
CHAPTER 8: Structure of Higher Plants
CHAPTER 9: Stages of Growth and Development
CHAPTER 10: Plant Chemistry and Metabolism
CHAPTER 11: Photosynthesis and Respiration
CHAPTER 12: Soil and Plant Water Relations
CHAPTER 13: Plant Nutrients
CHAPTER 14: Genetics and Propagation
CHAPTER 15: Crop Biodiversity: Naming, Classifying, Origin, and Germplam Preservation
UNIT III: Crops: Their Production and Utilization Systems
CHAPTER 16: Field Crops Grown for Food, Fiber, Fuel, and Other Industrial Uses
CHAPTER 17: Forage Crops and Rangelands
CHAPTER 18: Vegetable Production
CHAPTER 19: Temperate Fruit and Nut Crops
CHAPTER 20: Tropical and Subtropical Crops and Crop Production Systems
CHAPTER 21: Nursery Production
CHAPTER 22: Landscape Plants: Evergreen Trees and Shrubs, Deciduous Trees and Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants
CHAPTER 23: Floriculture
CHAPTER 24: Turfgrasses
CHAPTER 25: Residential and Public Landscapes
CHAPTER 26: Harvest, Post-Harvest Handling, Storage, Distribution, and Marketing
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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