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A CD-ROM guide giving an overview of the major phyla of the five biological kingdoms: ‘Monera’ (bacteria), ‘Protoctista’ (algae, protozoans, and other aquatic and parasitic organisms), ‘Fungi’...
Uses various microscopic techniques (bright-field microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, electron microscopy) on onion epidermis to emphasise the dynamic nature of plant...
Offers complete multimedia navigational access (texts, charts, graphs, images, video, sound and photos), coupled with a hypertext structure to discover the universe of 700,000 plant specimens collected by...
Discusses the adaptive radiation of genetically very close species of plants classified into three genera, ‘Argyroxiphium’, ‘Dubautia’ and ‘Wilkesia’, known as the Silversword Alliance. Shows...
Using simple demonstrations and time-lapse photography explains the principles underlying the structures of seedlings, shoots, herbaceous plants, trees and leaves. Using the microscope, examines how these...
A review of our knowledge of how plants utilise sunlight, including the research that led to the 1988 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Plants produce oxygen when exposed to light, and produce starch. The green...
An image database for the biological sciences.
Introduces the techniques used in plant cell, tissue and organ culture and their possible commercial applications. Discusses the initiation, establishment and maintenance of callus and cell suspension...
Dr. David Bellamy (plant ecologist) and Dr. Alan Pearson (plant physiologist) discuss altitudinal zonation in the Dolomites with a detailed discussion of the plant communities found in the region of Cortina....
'Solanum berthaultii’, an insect-resistant wild potato from Bolivia, has abundant sticky-tipped hairs on the foliage to which small insects and mites get stuck. In contrast, the foliage of cultivated...
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