Undergraduate Library Reference Collection Resources

This dictionary covers 30,000 terms on all plant varieties from alpines to shrubs, and houseplants to wild flowers.

This reference boasts a comprehensive glossary of generic and specific plant names, and components of these, from which the reader may interpret the existing names of plants and construct new names. It also gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known and named.

This three-volume encyclopedia is an expansive yet succinct publication that covers the application of current advances in the biological sciences, through which scientists can now better produce sustainable, safe food, feed and food ingredients, and renewable raw materials for industry and society. It also covers the concerns over continuing advances in the application of knowledge in the areas of ecology and plant pathology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry and biotechnology, as well as the ethical issues involved in the use of the powerful techniques available to modern plant science.

An updated edition of Eduard Strasburger's famous 1894 book of botany, this guide contains modern contributions by renowned experts in the fields of molecular and morphological structure of plants and cells, physiology and metabolism, evolution and systematics of plants,and general ecology.

This reference guide explores diseases which attack various varieties of plants, including trees, shrubs, grasses, forage, fruits, vegetables, garden and greenhouse plants as well as native wild flowers and even weeds.

A visual guide which examines the diversity of plants, from the classification of species to the reproductive processes of the most complex flowers.

A comprehensive overview of the occurrence, significance and factors effecting phytochemicals in plant foods.

A guide for researchers of systematic and taxonomic botany, and those studying plant and fungal diversity at the University of Michigan.

A guide for finding factual information about particular plant and animal species.