Author: G. M. Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grasses, dormancy, seed
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1990-07-27
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521372887
ISBN-13: 9780521372886

The first comprehensive review of the occurrence and explanation of seed dormancy in grasses is presented in this volume. An understanding of seed dormancy is of considerable significance to world agriculture and the global economy, since grasses are a principal source of food for humankind and play an essential role in stabilizing the land surface of much of the globe. Experimental evidence is considered in depth for a single species, the wild oat (Avena fatua), probably the most widely studied species for understanding seed dormancy in the plant kingdom. The evidence for this species is co

Author: G. P. Chapman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grasses, versatility, reproductive
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1990-11-30
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 052138060X
ISBN-13: 9780521380607

An authoritative guide to current problems in the world’s most important plant families including cereals, the major forages, amenity grasses and those able to stabilize desert margins. After dealing with a computerized approach to grass taxonomy, the book considers in detail the grass spikelet. Thereafter, it examines fertilization, apomixis, and the structure of grass populations. The helpful role of grasses in reversing the trend toward desertification is also considered. The book then examines how molecular biology and tissue culture can be used with grass pollens to mitigate hay fev

Author: G. P. Cheplick PhD
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grasses, biology, population
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1998-03-28
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0521572053
ISBN-13: 9780521572057

Grasses occupy a greater area of the world’s land surface than any other plant family, occurring in almost every terrestrial environment and providing a vital source of food for humans and animals. This volume presents the most recent information on their population biology, bringing together contributions from researchers studying both applied and fundamental aspects of this important group of plants. This volume considers demographic, physiological, ecological and molecular approaches to understanding grass populations in relation to reproduction and to aspects of life history patterns

Author: Dan Undersander
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: grasses, pasture, identifying
Published: 1996-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0788177575
ISBN-13: 9780788177576

Author: H.D. Harrington
Publisher: Swallow Press
Keywords: plants, grasslike, grasses, identify
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1977-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0804007462
ISBN-13: 9780804007467

There is no easy was to identify grasses. And no one understood this better than H.D. Harrington, who observed thousands of students struggle and learn. His clear, concise, and well-organized guide will continue to be a basic and essential text for use in the classroom or in the field. The book contains over 500 drawings and an illustrated glossary.

Author: S.F. Armstrong
Publisher: Fite Press
Keywords: agriculture, employment, grasses, british
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $28.45
ISBN-10: 1406778974
ISBN-13: 9781406778977

BRITISH GRASSES AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE BY S. F. ARMSTRONG, - A PREFACE - THE vast importance of the Natural Order Graminacese is -JL partly due to the large number and world-wide distribution of its species, but more especially to the great economic value which many of these plants possess. Apart from numerous varieties some 3,600 species have been described, of which rather more than 100 are natives of the British Isles. The enormous importance of our cereal grasses is apparent to everyone, but apart altogether from these, our native grasses are worthy of our highest attention, i

Author: Rick Darke
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: landscapes, livable, grasses, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0881928178
ISBN-13: 9780881928174

In this new book noted grass expert and advocate Rick Darke addresses both the aesthetic qualities of grasses in private gardens and the opportunities and challenges of using them in wild and constructed public landscapes. All the true grasses, sedges, rushes, restios, and cattails that possess ornamental merit or that can contribute to ecological plantings are described, and practical matters of propagation, growth, and maintenance are also covered. More than 1000 stunning photographs show details of individual plants and hundreds of gardens and landscapes in which grasses play a prominent pa