Levetin, Estelle.

Plants & society / Plants and society. Estelle Levetin, Karen McMahon. - 6th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2011. - xvii, 526 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

Plants in our lives -- The plant cell -- The plant body -- Plant physiology -- Plant life cycle : flowers -- Plant life cycle : fruits and seeds -- Genetics -- Plant systematics and evolution -- Diversity of plant life -- Human nutrition -- Origins of agriculture -- The grasses -- Legumes -- Starchy staples -- Feeding a hungry world -- Stimulating beverages -- Herbs and spices -- Materials : cloth, wood, and paper -- Medicinal plants -- Psychoactive plants -- Poisonous and allergy plants -- The algae -- Fungi in the natural environment -- Beverages and foods from fungi -- Fungi that affect human health -- Plant ecology.

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Botany.
Botany, Economic.
Plants--Social aspects.

QK47 / .L48 2011

580 / LEC