Muller, Walter H.

Botany : a functional approach / Walter H. Muller ; selected ill. by Isabelle Greene. - 4th ed. - New York : Macmillan, c1979. - vii, 687 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

life and plants;
use of plants by humans;
a few basic physical and chemical principles;
cell structure;
diffusion and the entrance of materials into cells;
the plant;
stem structure;
stem function;
roots;
leaves;
energy, enzymes and digestion;
photosynthesis;
synthesis and respiration;
correlation of processes, plant distribution and food chains;
transpiration and plant distribution;
mineral nutrition;
soils;
inheritance and variation;
plant classification;
kingdom monera;
division eumycota;
algal groups;
division bryophyta;
vascular plants, divisions psilophyta, lycophyta and sphenophyta;
division pterophyta;
division coniferophyta;
division anthophyta;
evolution;
growth, development, flowering and plant movements;
our environment;
populations and their problems;
pollution;
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