“Flower of Aristolochia gigas var. sturtevantii used as a hat by a native of British Guiana” – a photograph from Everard im Thurn at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [PDF]
, 2015 The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, holds a small but valuable and unstudied collection of photographs by Everard im Thurn (1852–1932) who contributed to botany, with specimens and publications, and to anthropology, publishing works that highlight his ...
Albuquerque, Sara
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Wild Flowers of the United States: Volume 1, The North-Eastern States (in two parts). Harold William Rickett. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. x, 559 pp. $39.50. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Many entomologists are faced with the problem of identifying a plant that an insect has been gathering nectar from, feeding on, or pollinating.
Donahue, Julian P
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Fourteen degrees of latitude and a continent apart: comparison of lichen activity over two years at continental and maritime Antarctic sites [PDF]
, 2010 There are marked declines in precipitation, mean temperatures and the number of lichen species with increasing latitude in Antarctica. However, it is not known which factors are the predominant controllers of biodiversity changes.
Burkhard Schroeter +22 more
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Effect of moist chilling treatment on seed germination of 7 species of Anthemis and Tanacetum [PDF]
علوم و فناوری بذر ایران, 2018 Two genera of chamomile and tansies (Anthemis and Tanacetum) belong to asteraceae family are widely used as medicinal plant possessing several pharmacological effects due to presence of active compounds.
Mohsen Nasiri
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Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2017 Plants are attractive platforms for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Plants' modular and plastic body plans, capacity for photosynthesis, extensive secondary metabolism, and agronomic systems for large-scale production make them ideal targets for genetic reprogramming. However, efforts in this area have been constrained by slow growth, long
Christian R, Boehm +4 more
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Some claim for the end of Botany… but what is Botany today? [PDF]
Italian BotanistIn times of increasing interest in plants, a major challenge lies in effectively communicating the essence of Botany: What exactly does it encompass? Who are botanists? And how do botanical gardens differ from other types of gardens?
Lorenzo Peruzzi
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Application of Botany in Abiotic and Biotic Stress Resistances in Crops: a Synthesis
International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2023 It is a matter of great concern that Master in Botany is disappearing in many of the universities in India, thereby the importance is decreasing gradually.
Ratikanta Maiti
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 Astragali Radix (Huangqi) is mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, South America, and Africa and rarely in North America and Oceania. It has long been used as an ethnomedicine in the Russian Federation, Mongolia, Korea, Kazakhstan, and China. It
Panpan Wang +6 more
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The Law of Nature, which Makes it Necessary to Develop the Fundamental Science of Cybernetics
Кібернетика та комп'ютерні технології, 2023 Understanding the environment ultimately boils down to the exploration of the laws of nature. Many years of experience have shown that not all of these laws are currently within the scope of scientists' attention.
Vitaliy Vyshinskiy
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Specimen poetics: botany, reanimation, and the Romantic collection [PDF]
, 2017 This essay argues that the modern literary anthology—and specifically its aspiration to delimit both aesthetic merit and historical representativeness—emerged as a response to changes in eighteenth-century botanical collecting, description, and ...
Porter, Dahlia
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