[PDF] Herbarium Essentials eBook

Author : Barbara M. Thiers
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1643260529

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“A sweeping history of the origins, development, and future of herbaria and their role in plant consternation.” —The American Gardener Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today.

Author : Subhash C. Mandal
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128025638

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Essentials of Botanical Extraction: Principles and Applications provides a unique, single source of valuable information on the various botanical extraction methods available, from conventional to the use of green and modern extraction technologies including ultrasounds, microwaves, pressurized liquids, and supercritical fluids. Most extracts obtained from botanicals are often poorly characterized with unidentified active or inactive constituents. A wise selection of an extraction strategy is vital to drug discovery from medicinal plants as extraction forms the basic first step in medicinal plant research. This book also explores the mathematical hypotheses and innovations in botanical extractions and analyzes different post extraction operations so that dependency on serendipity is reduced and the same be converted into programmed drug discovery. Reviews the history and current state of natural product drug discovery and development, highlighting successes and current issues Explains the application of chemometric tools in extraction process design and method development Introduces process intensification as applied to the processing of medicinal plant extracts for rapid and cost-effective extraction

Author : Beatrice Scheer Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1992*
Category : Botanical artists
ISBN : 1452902569

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Autograph typescript manuscript with typescript corrections of work later published under the same title.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Herbaria
ISBN : 9780674023024

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Facsimile of a dried plant album assembled by the young Emily Dickinson, with interpretive essays and catalog and index of plant specimens.

Author : Diane M. Bridson
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Gardening
ISBN :

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"Contains chapters on the conservation of herbarium sheets and on the collection and curation of the larger algae. The chapter on computers has been completely rewritten and much enlarged, as have those on pests and treatments, larger fungi and economic botany. The sections on liquid preservatives and on pesticides have been revised to take into account new health and safety regulations. An essential reference work for herbarium managers and technicians and for all those who are involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections." --NHBS Environment Bookstore.

Author : Robyn Stacey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0521842778

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This stunningly beautiful book throws open the closed doors of the Sydney herbaria, and the history of Australia's flora.

Author : Cassandra Leah Quave
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984879138

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The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist’s quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. “A fascinating and deeply personal journey.” ­—Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovo—all in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. Dr. Quave is a leading medical ethnobotanist—someone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesses—helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey.

Author : Sheila C. Byers
Publisher : Preservation of Natural History Collections
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN :

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A joint project by The Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections & The Royal Ontario Museum.