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Seed Identification Manual is an attempt to meet the long-standing need for a reference work dealing exclusively with seed identification. The authors of this manual have brought together, for direct observation and study on a comparative basis, pictures and practical descriptions of a large and representative a collection of seeds. In accord with the visual principal, the textual part of the manual is ample illustrated with 288 figures in the form of line drawings and diagrams, and the generic descriptions are accompanied by reference to the corresponding plates. Lavishly illustrated the pictorial part of the manual, containing 824 photographic plates, showing the seeds of more than 600 plant species, is divided into three habitat classification of Framlands, Wetlands and Woodlands from various parts of the United States. The immediate aim of this manual is to help agriculturists, foresters, wildlife biologists, chemical manufacturers, agricultural experiment stations, seed testing laboratories, and others interested in the land-use programs to identify the seeds in their particular ecological fields of interest. Bearing in mind the different backgrounds of the probable readers of this manual in respect to scientific preparations and experiences, the authors have thought it best to keep the descriptions nontechnical, so far as was feasible, and thus adapt the material to a broad range of interests and skills.
Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.
Seed Purity and Taxonomy replaces The Handbook of Seed Testing, as the most complete and up-to-date resource of information available on seed identification and seed taxonomy. Seed Purity and Taxonomy contains a comprehensive listing of seeds along with approximately 3,000 black-and-white sketches, photographs, and computer-scanned images of species most likely to be encountered in seed testing laboratories in North America. Internal morphological features of different family groups are also included. These images are complemented with detailed descriptions and numerous dichotomous keys that will help in making definitive identifications.
Settlers crossing the tallgrass prairie in the early 1800s were greeted by a seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. Today, although the tallgrass prairie has been reduced to a tiny percentage of its former expanse, people are working to restore and reconstruct prairie communities. This lavishly illustrated guide to seeds and seedlings, crafted by Tallgrass Prairie Center botanist Dave Williams and illustrator Brent Butler, will insure that everyone from urban gardeners to grassland managers can properly identify and germinate seventy-two species of tallgrass wildflowers and grasses in eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, Iowa, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, northwestern Missouri, and eastern Oklahoma. Williams has created a brilliant, nearly foolproof system of identification and verification. Two primary keys lead to eleven secondary keys that link to characteristic groups of tallgrass plants: seven groups for wildflowers and four groups for grasses. To identify a seedling, use the primary key to discover its place in the secondary key, then turn to that characteristic group to find your seedling. Circles on each full seedling photograph correspond to close-up photographs; triangles on these close-ups illustrate information in the text to further pinpoint identification. Drawings of leaves illuminate exact identification, and enlarged photographs of each seed provide yet another way to confirm identification. Thousands of seeds were sprouted in the Tallgrass Prairie Center’s greenhouse to provide seedlings close in size and development to those grown in the field near the end of their first season; research and photography took place over four years. Williams’s text for each species includes a thorough description, a comparison of similar species, and guidance for germination and growth. A complete glossary supports the text, which is concise but detailed enough to be accessible to beginning prairie enthusiasts. Anyone in the Upper Midwest who wishes to preserve the native vegetation of prairie remnants or reconstruct a tallgrass prairie of whatever size—from home gardens to schoolyards to roadsides to large acreages—will benefit from the hundreds of photographs and drawings and the precise text in this meticulously prepared guide.
CONTENTS 1. Alternaria alternata (Fries.) Keissler (Syn. A. tenuis Nces) 2. Alternaria brassicicola (Schw,) Wiltshire 3. Alternaria longissima, Deighton Mae Garive 4. Alternaria tenuissima (Kunze.Fr.) Wiltshire 5. Aspergillus candidus Link 6. Aspergillus fiavus link ex. Fr. 7. Aspergillus fumigatus, Fresenius 8. Aspergillus nidulans, (Eidam.) Winter 9. Aspergillus niger, Van Tiegh 10. Aspergillus oryzae Ahlburg. Cohn 11. Aspergillus ruber 12. Aspergillus sydowii (Bainier and Sartory), Thom and Church 13. Aspergillus tamarri, Kita 14. Aspergillus terreus, Thom 15. Botryodiplodia theobromae, Patouillard 16. Botrytis cinerea, Persoon 17. Cephalosporium humicola, Oudemans 18. Chaetomium brasiliense, Bat and Pontuel 19. Chaetomium globosum, Kunze 20. Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fr.) de Vries 21. Colletotrichum dematium (Fr.) Grove 22. Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. and Curt.) Wei 23. Cunninghamella elegans Lendner 24. Curvularia lunata (Walker) Boediju 25. Drechslera rostrata 26. Drechslera tetramera (Mc.Kinney) Subram and Jain Syn. Helminthosporium tetramera Mc. Kinney Bipolaris tetramera (Mc. Kinney) Shoem 27. Epicoccum purpurascens, Ehrenberg 28. Fusarium bulbigenum, Cooke and Massee 29. Fusarium equiseti (Corda) Saccardo 30. Fusariurn moniliforme, Sheldon 31. Fusarium oxysporurn, Schlechtendahl 32. Fusarium semitectum Berkeley and Ravene 33. Fusarium solani (Martius) 34. Fusarium udum (Berkeley.) 35. Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi.) Goid 36. Memnoniella echinata (Rivolta.) Galloway 37. Mucor echinulatus 38. Mucor hiemalis, Wehmer. 39. Mucor varians, Povah. 40. Myrothecium roridum, Tode. 41. Nigrospora oryzae, Hudson 42. Penicillium corylophilum, Dierck Syn. P. umbonatum Shopp. 43. Penicillium chrysogenum, Thom. 44. Penicillium citrinum, 45. Penicillium expansum (Link.) Thom. 46. Penicillium oxalicum, Thom. 47. Penicillium rubrum, Stoll 48.Phoma humicola, Gilman and Abbott 49. Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butl. 50. Rhizoctonia solani, Kuhn 51. Rhizopus arrhizus, Fischer 52. Rhizopus nigricans, Ehrenberg 53. Sclerotium rolfsii Saccardo. 54. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. 55. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. 56. Sterile mycelium 57. Verticillium albo-atrum Reinke and Berthold
A complete guide to the collection, processing and storage of seeds collected in the wild describing procedures and protocols that are of international standard. Includes a comprehensive pictorial guide, in colour, of 1260 Australian seeds clearly showing their size and shape.
Seed Biology: Insects, and Seed Collection, Storage, Testing, and Certification, Volume III brings together a large body of important information on seed biology. The book describes seed collection, identification, storage, testing, and certification. It also considers insects that directly affect seeds, seed-producing organs, or seed-bearing structures of plants. Organized into six chapters, this volume begins by outlining man's dependency on seeds as source of food, fiber, spices, beverages, oils, vitamins, and drugs. Harmful effects of seeds are also mentioned. Separate chapters focus on seed development, dissemination, germination (including metabolism, environmental control, internal control, dormancy, and seed and seedling vigor), protection from diseases and insects, longevity, and deterioration. The book concludes with a discussion on the certification of field and tree seeds, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development certification schemes, and trends in seed certification. This book is a valuable source of information for seed producers and users as well as various groups of research biologists and teachers, including agronomists, plant anatomists, biochemists, ecologists, entomologists, foresters, horticulturists, plant pathologists, and plant physiologists.