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Weed Anatomy: Kraehmer/Weed Anatomy by Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Peter Baur(auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Weeds are plants interfering with the interestsof people. They are regarded as problems especially by farmers, by industrial vegetation managers,in ornamental production, in forestry or on siteswhere vegetation can cause safety risks, for exampleon railway tracks or along motorways. Some weedsimpose a health risk for people by causing allergicreactions, such as Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. Othersare toxic to animals, such as Senecio jacobaea L.which kills horses from time to time when eaten. Classical books on plant anatomy start with cellsand tissues. They continue with characteristic planttissues, for example parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma, epidermis, meristems, phloem, xylem andsecretory structures. Organs and plant parts aredescribed thereafter: stem, root, leaves and reproductive organs. We will try to follow this structure withexamples from weeds in the first part of this book. The most frequent weed species, however, are eitherannuals, biennials or non-woody perennials. For thisreason, we will not refer to noxious trees nor bushes.Only higher plants are considered, that is algae ormosses are excluded. The second part of our bookconsists of short monographs of weeds with

Who reads Weed Anatomy: Kraehmer/Weed Anatomy?

Author

Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Peter Baur(auth.)

Publisher

Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470659861

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Agriculture