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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: July 2009Botany & Plant Science50 VIDEO CLIPS OF FUNGAL DISEASES OF CEREALS Edited by Joseph-Alexander Verreet, Holger Klink and Christian Albrechts Many of the intriguing ways that fungal parasites interact with their plant hosts are artistically magnified and brought to life in these 50 video clips. The ingenious animations of fungal biology in ...... 55 page booklet. DVD-ROM | 2008 | £182.85 | approx. $303/€215 ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH, VOLUME 50 Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny This series contains in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 50th volume, the series features a wide range of reviews by recognized experts ...... 272 pp. hardcover | 2009 | £90 | approx. $150/€106 AMERICAN HERBAL PHARMACOPOEIA Edited by Roy Upton Compiled by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, this volume addresses the lack of authoritative microscopic descriptions of those medicinal plant species currently in trade. It includes an ...... 512 pp, 1835 black & white illustrations. hardcover | 2009 | £90 | approx. $150/€106 ATLAS DES CORTINAIRES, PARS 18 A Bidaud et al Atlas des Cortinaires 18 Loose-leaf. unbound | 2009 | £170 | approx. $282/€200 BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY Our Intimate Connections to Trees Nalini M Nadkarni New Paperback Edition World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, ...... 292 pp, photos. hardcover | 2008 | £17.95 | approx. $30/€22 softcover | NYP 10/2009 | £13.95 | approx. $24/€17 CALATOGUS HASSLERIANUS, PARTE 1 L Ramella Flora of Paraguay Special Series 4 370 pp. softcover | 2008 | £23.50 | approx. $39/€28 COMPLéMENTS AU PRODROME DE LA FLORE CORSE : VOL. 12 OROBANCHACEAE C Habashi and D Jeanmonod softcover | 2008 | £19.50 | approx. $33/€23 COMPLéMENTS AU PRODROME DE LA FLORE CORSE : VOL. 13 CUCURBITACEAE D Jeanmonod softcover | 2008 | £9.99 | approx. $17/€12 DEFENCE MECHANISMS OF PLANTS Brian J Deverall First published in 1977, this volume is a short and integrated account of the dynamic mechanisms involved in the defence of plant cells against attack by parasitic bacteria and fungi. The central ...... Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology 19 120 pp. softcover | 2009 | £14.99 | approx. $25/€18 FASZINIERENDE WILDPFLANZEN Ein Herbarium in Fotos Pierre Vignes and Delia Vignes 275 plants from Europe are described and illustrated. In German. 576 pp, col photos, figs. hardcover | NYP 10/2009 | £80 | approx. $133/€94 FLORA ZAMBESIACA, VOLUME 12, PART 2: DIOSCOREACEAE, TACCACEAE, BURMANNIACEAE, PANDANACEAE, VELLOZIACEAE, COLCHICACEAE, LILIACEAE, SMILACACEAE Edited by Jonathan Timberlake and ES Martins The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi ...... Flora Zambesiaca 12/2 214 pp, 52 line drawings. softcover | 2009 | £59 | approx. $98/€70 FLORA OF KOREA, VOLUME 1: PTERIDOPHYTES & GYMNOSPERMS Edited by Chong-Wook Park Flora of Korea 1 198 pp. hardcover | NYP 2009 | £110 | approx. $183/€130 FRUIT DEVELOPMENT AND SEED DISPERSAL Lars Ostergaard Fruit development and seed dispersal are major topics within plant and crop sciences research with important developments in research being reported regularly. Drawing together reviews by some of the ...... Annual Plant Reviews 38 352 pp. hardcover | NYP 12/2009 | £105 | approx. $174/€124 GREAT GARDENS OF AMERICA Tim Richardson and Andrea Jones An authoritative and superbly illustrated celebration of the great gardens of the United States and Canada. The gardens chosen for this book range from eighteenth-century landscape gardens such as ...... 280 pp, 300 colour photographs. hardcover | NYP 09/2009 | £39.99 | approx. $67/€47 A GUIDE TO FLOWERS AND PLANTS OF TASMANIA Edited by Marion Simmons et al New Edition Now in its fourth edition, this beautifully illustrated guide has been extensively revised, with updated text and many new photographs. For ease of identification each of the species ...... 176 pp, 300 col photos, line illus, 1 map. softcover | 2008 | £37.50 | approx. $63/€45 GUIDE TO THE SUCCULENTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Gideon F Smith and Neil R Crouch Twenty-five per cent of southern African flora is succulent in nature, and a remarkable forty per cent of the world's succulent plants occur in South Africa. The book will highlight the diversity ...... 136 pp, 300 photos. softcover | NYP 11/2009 | £9.99 | approx. $17/€12 HANDBOOK OF CHINESE MEDICINAL PLANTS Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology G Eisenbrand and W Tang Synergizing herbal medicine with clinical science, this two-volume guide combines the medicinal applications of a comprehensive range of herbs from traditional Chinese medicine with modern day ...... 1150 pp. hardcover | NYP 12/2009 | £325 | approx. $539/€382 HYBRID: THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF PLANT BREEDING Noel Kingsbury Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes ...... 504 pp. hardcover | NYP 10/2009 | £23.99 | approx. $40/€29 NINFA The Most Romantic Garden in the World Charles Quest-Ritson The garden at Ninfa has a unique setting: the ruins of a medieval town near Rome. The site is one of sublime romantic beauty, where time seems to stand still. The garden has achieved cult status ...... 128 pp, 150 photographs in colour and black and white. hardcover | NYP 10/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $42/€30 NITRIC OXIDE IN PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Edited by Shamsul Hayat, Masaki Mori, John Pichtel and Iqbal Ahmad Written by a truly global team of researchers from Europe, Asia and the Americas with strong ties to agricultural research centers and the agrochemical industry, this ready reference and handbook ...... 375 pp. hardcover | NYP 11/2009 | £110 | approx. $183/€130 PITCHER PLANTS OF THE OLD WORLD, VOLUME 1 Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly specialised foliage that takes the form of hollow, water-filled ...... Pitcher Plants of the Old World 1 500 pp, col photos. hardcover | 2009 | £34.99 | approx. $58/€42 PITCHER PLANTS OF THE OLD WORLD, VOLUME 2 Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly specialised foliage that takes the form of hollow, water-filled ...... Pitcher Plants of the Old World 2 500 pp, col photos. hardcover | 2009 | £34.99 | approx. $58/€42 PLANT BREEDING REVIEWS, VOLUME 33 Jules Janick Plant Breeding Reviews 33 330 pp. hardcover | NYP 12/2009 | £150 | approx. $249/€177 PLANT CELL CULTURE Edited by Michael R Davey and Paul Anthony The ability to culture cells is fundamental for mass propagation and as a baseline for the genetic manipulation of plant nuclei and organelles. The introduction to "Plant Cell Culture: Methods ...... 320 pp. hardcover | NYP 11/2009 | £70 | approx. $116/€83 PLANT STRESS BIOLOGY From Genomics to Systems Biology Heribert Hirt This is the first book to present a comprehensive and advanced discussion on the latest insights into plant stress biology. Starting with general aspects of biotic as well as abiotic ...... 234 pp. hardcover | NYP 10/2009 | £69.99 | approx. $116/€83 (reduced from £80) SAXICOLOUS LICHEN AND BRYOPHYTE COMMUNITIES IN UPLAND BRITAIN A Orange Phytosociological data were collected to describe the terrestrial lichen and bryophyte vegetation of rock or saxicolous habitats within 14 Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) within upland ...... JNCC Report Series 404 324 pp, tabs, figs. softcover | 2009 | £19.99 | approx. $34/€24 TAXONOMICAL REVISION OF THE CALOPLACA SAXICOLA GROUP (TELOSCHISTACEAE, LICHEN-FORMING ASCOMYCOTA) Ester Gaya This volume presents a revision of the Caloplaca saxicola group (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycetes) of the northern Hemisphere. The revision is based on the study of morphological and anatomical ...... Bibliotheca Lichenologica 101 191 pp, 2 figures, 11 tables, 37 plates (5 coloured). softcover | 2009 | £93 | approx. $155/€110 TROPICAL AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS: ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION, VOLUME 9B MIMOSACEAE - FABACEAE (INCL. DERRIS) Tropical African Flowering Plants 2008 | £45 | approx. $75/€53 TROPICAL AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS: ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION, VOLUME 9C FABACEAE (DESMODIUM-ZORNIA) Tropical African Flowering Plants 2008 | £45 | approx. $75/€53 WEEDY AND INVASIVE PLANT GENOMICS C Neal Stewart Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date reference on genetic and genomics research in weedy and invasive plants. Forward-looking in its approach, the work also assesses the areas of future research ...... 272 pp. hardcover | NYP 10/2009 | £120 | approx. $199/€141 WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine Gary Paul Nabhan The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a ...... 256 pp, photos, maps, bibliography, index. hardcover | 2008 | £15.99 | approx. $27/€19 |
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