An approachable guide to the fundamentals of plant science. Created for horticulture students, gardeners, science teachers, and anyone interested in understanding plants and how they grow.
History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization.
This first edition is an editable, open access learning resource with interactive web based experiences customized for horticulture students studying plant identification.
The manual highlights the multidisciplinary aspects of soil science with laboratories focused on soil formation, classification, and mapping; soil physics, soil biology; soil chemistry; and soil fertility and management.
This project aims to provide a complete guide for the CE/AREN 3143 course (Properties and Behavior of Soil) at the University of Texas Arlington. Video demonstrations of lab processes accompany each chapter.
Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources (VSSLR) group is focused on developing innovative, OER for a variety of undergraduate and graduate natural resource courses and programs.
Graphics, videos, and short descriptions of the soil formation process. The website includes information on landscape evolution, soil formation, parent materials, soil landscapes, and more.
This book was created to support teaching of an introductory unit on plant environmental physiology. It makes use of various images of cells and tissues to introduce and illustrate the range of plant organelles, cells, tissues and organs.