Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity

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The central theme of Green Plants is the astonishing diversity of forms found in the plant kingdom. The book is arranged according to generally accepted classification schemes, beginning with prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae and moving through mosses, liverworts, fern allies, ferns and gymnosperms to flowering plants. Copiously illustrated throughout, it provides a concise account of all algae and land plants, with information on topics from cellular structure to life cycles and reproduction. The authors include newly emerging information on features of plants known only as fossils. This new edition has been completely updated to reflect current views on the origin of the major plant groups.

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Great upper-level book, but not for an intro course.......2002-06-23

I was needing a book for an introductory botany course, covering plant evolution and structure. This book is too advanced for a course like that, but would be excellent for a 300 or 400 level course after students have the basics of evolution, taxonomy, and plant structures down. As a grad student, this is a text I'd love to have as a resource and will use as a reference text in my course...but it's too dry and the language is at too high a level for beginners. I am recommending this text to a professor of a botany class I was TA'ing for on Comparative Plant Anatomy, a 300 level course. So...if you want to be a botanist, grab it. If you want to teach plant anatomy and origins after an introductory botany course, this is perfect (best I've seen for the price, too!). If you want to teach an AP Botany course to high school students that only have a high-school biology background with no botany experience....not a good choice except as a strong reference. Book explains well, has excellent black-and-white diagrams, follows a thorough and logical pattern of evolution, but simply uses terminology too advanced for a lower-level course. They have trouble with the concepts of transcription and translation, much less page 103, "The passage of materials into the sporophyte is entirely through the apoplast since in all archeoniates the boundary between the two phases lacks plasmodesmata." Clear to me....but not to a beginner. I can't stress how good this book is for an advanced course or a serious botanist/taxonomist/plant geneticist/etc. GREAT upper-level/professional text!!!!!

Basic botany text........2001-04-30

This is a short book on plant diversity. There are lots of B/W drawings and diagrams. The book can be used in botany classes or for amateurs who want to learn more about plants.

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Plant Variation & Evolution
David Briggs , and Stuart Max Walters
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521459184

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Natural populations of plants show intricate patterns of variation. European botanists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used this variation to classify different "kinds" into a hierachy of family, genus, and species. Although useful, these classifications were based on a belief in the fixity of species and the static patterns of variation. Darwin's theory of evolution changed this view; populations and species varied in time and space and were part of a continuing process of evolution. The development of molecular techniques has transformed our understanding of microevolution and the evolutionary history of the flowering plants. This revised, extended edition describes the historical background to plant variation studies and considers the remarkable insights that molecular biology has recently given into the processes of evolution in populations of cultivated, wild and weedy species; the threats of extinction faced by many endangered species and the wider evolutionary history of the flowering plants as revealed by cladistic methods.

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication: Volume 2

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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication: Volume 2
Charles Robert Darwin
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication: Volume 1

ASIN: 1421269414
Release Date: 2001-05-24

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by John Murray, London.

The Variation of Animals And Plants Under Domestication

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The Variation of Animals And Plants Under Domestication
Charles Darwin
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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With animals, the jackal is prepotent over the dog, as is stated by Flourens, who made many crosses between these animals; and this was likewise the case with a hybrid which I once saw between a jackal and a terrier. I cannot doubt, from the observations of Colin and others, that the ass is prepotent over the horse; the prepotency in this instance running more strongly through the male than through the female ass.

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Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins

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Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins
Colloquium on the Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins (2000 : Beckman Center of the National Academies)
Manufacturer: National Academy Press
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The Biology of Biodiversity

Manufacturer: Springer
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When the 1998 International Prize for Biology was awarded for outstanding research in the biology of biodiversity, the honor went to Harvard University Professor Otto T. Solbrig, one of the authors of this volume. As the world becomes increasingly aware of the crisis and urgency of conservation in biodiversity, this book could not be more timely. Understanding of the biodiversity of plants, animals, and humans remains incomplete, but new multidisciplinary approaches - phylogenetic, ecological, molecular developmental, and genetic - have revealed essential underlying aspects of the science. These and other breakthroughs are presented in the papers collected here from scientists at the forefront of biodiversity research. While the focus of their work is on the evolutionary and ecological implications of biodiversity, basic concepts and data also are provided. The book is thus a valuable source both in research and in the utilization and conservation of biodiversity.

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Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants
M. Ingrouille
Manufacturer: Springer
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Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today. Setting aside the traditional plod through the plant taxa, the author adopts a problem-based functional approach, exploring plant diversity as a series of different solutions to the design problems facing plant life on land.

Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series)

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Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series)
Peter K. Endress
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521420881

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The first part of the volume deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. The second part focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants and emphasizes their structural and biological idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features. The author also outlines new trends in the study of floral evolution and the role of flowers in the study of flowering plant phylogeny.

Evolution and design in the plant kingdom

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Evolution and design in the plant kingdom
C. L Duddington
Manufacturer: Crowell
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Evolution in plant design
C. L Duddington
Manufacturer: Faber
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Beginning as chemical curiosities, carbenes are now solidly established as reactive intermediates with fascinating and productive research areas of their own. Five decades of divalent carbon chemistry have provided us with a vast repertoire of new, unusual and surprising reactions. Some of those reactions, once classified as exotic, have become standard methods in organic synthesis. These highly reactive carbene species have been harnessed and put to work to achieve difficult synthetic tasks that other reactive intermediates cannot easily perform.
The fruitful relationship between experiment and theory has pushed carbene chemistry further toward the direction of reaction control; that is, regio- and stereoselectivity in intra- and intermolecular addition and insertion reactions. The interplay between experiment and modern spectroscopy has led to the characterisation of many carbenes that are crucial to both an understanding and a further development of this field.
Understanding of carbene chemistry has advanced dramatically, especially in the last decade, and new developments continue to emerge. Some of the recent exciting findings have been collected in the first volume of Advances in Carbene Chemistry. With this second volume, the series will continue to provide a periodic coverage of carbene chemistry in its broadest sense - leading into the next century.

Advances in Carbene Chemistry, Volume 3 (Advances in Carbene Chemistry)

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Advances in Carbene Chemistry, Volume 3 (Advances in Carbene Chemistry)
U.H. Brinker
Manufacturer: JAI Press
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ASIN: 0444508929

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Our understanding of carbene chemistry has advanced dramatically, especially in the last decade, and new developments continue to emerge. Some of the recent exciting findings have been collected in the first and second volumes of "Advances in Carbene Chemistry". With the third volume, the series continues to provide a periodic coverage of carbene chemistry in its broadest sense.

Beginning as chemical curiosities, carbenes are now solidly established as reactive intermediates with fascinating and productive research areas of their own. Five decades of divalent carbon chemistry have provided us with a vast repertoire of new, unusual, and surprising reactions. Some of those reactions, once classified as exotic, have become standard methods in organic synthesis. These highly reactive carbene species have been harnessed and put to work to achieve difficult synthetic tasks other reactive intermediates cannot easily perform.

The fruitful relationship between experiment and theory has pushed carbene chemistry further toward the direction of reaction control; that is, regio- and stereoselectivity in intra- and intermolecular addition and insertion reactions. The interplay between experiment and modern spectroscopy has led to the characterization of many carbenes that are crucial to both an understanding and further development of this field.

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CARBENE CHEMISTRY
Wolfgang Kirmse
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: B0000CMCN6

Carbene Chemistry (Organic Chemistry, Vol 1)

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Carbene Chemistry (Organic Chemistry, Vol 1)
Wolfgang Kirmse
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Carbene Chemistry (Volume 1 Only)
Wolfgang Kirmse
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: B000L1U91I

Carbene Chemistry: From Fleeting Intermediates to Powerful Reagents

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Carbene Chemistry: From Fleeting Intermediates to Powerful Reagents
Guy Bertrand
Manufacturer: CRC
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Highlights recent discoveries in the development of rapid kinetic techniques that allow for direct visualization and state-of-the-art computational methods.

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Carbenes

Manufacturer: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co
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Carbenes (Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry)

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Carbenes (Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry)

Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Carbenes, nitrenes and arynes (Studies in modern chemistry)

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Carbenes, nitrenes and arynes (Studies in modern chemistry)
T. L Gilchrist
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd
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ASIN: B000OK4YT4

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