Textbook Of Practical Botany

• The book effectively guides the students to faciliate their work in laboratory. • The subject can only be understood well when student works in the laboratory and makes the national approach based on facts and figures. • The present text of the book aptly fulfills this need of the students. • The book effectively guides the students to facilitate their work in laboratory.Useful for degree and post graduate students of Botany.

The abilities to think critically and communicate effectively are the most important skills that a student can develop during his or her formal education. Consequently, the book has been written in such a way to develop those skills as they learn about plants, what plants are, how they function, how they interact with each other and the environment, where they came from, and how we use them. As is the nature of all textbooks, it contains an abundance of interesting facts but the real emphasis of this practical book is how we know. The book emphasized on the details of practical knowledge and reduced the overwhelming number of new terms that usually appear in the text. In place of that, authors substituted more of the process of science. The book emphasis on scientific process involves explaining botany as botany is done. Specifically, author describe the competing hypotheses that botanists have devised to answer questions about botanical phenomena, the experiments done by botanists to test these hypotheses, interpretations of data, and the many unanswered questions and unresolved conflicts that remain. This approach differs significantly from that of merely presenting definitions and the conclusions of experiments. Volume 1 Chapter 1: Cryptogam and Phanerogams; Chapter 2: Fungi; Chapter 3: Lichens; Chapter 4: Microbiology; Chapter 5: Plant Pathology; Chapter 6: Bryophyta Plant; Chapter 7: Pteridophyta Plant; Chapter 8: Gymnosperms Plant; Chapter 9: Palaeobotany; Chapter 10: Plants of Economic Value; Chapter 11: Viva-voce; Chapter 12: Methods, Materials and Techniques Volume 2 Chapter 1: Morphology; Chapter 2: Plant Taxonomy (Systematic Botany); Chapter 3: Plant Physiology; Chapter 4: Plant Anatomy; Chapter 5: Plant Ecology; Chapter 6: Cytology; Chapter 7: Embryology; Chapter 8: Viva-voce.

Practical Botany for Advanced Level and Intermediate Students, Fifth Edition is a five-part laboratory manual covering the syllabuses in Botany of the advanced level students and other examinations of similar standard. This laboratory manual must be used in conjunction with textbooks of botany. The Introduction presents general instructions for practical work and for the keeping of practical notebooks and a list of apparatus and instruments required, as well as a summary of the characteristics of living organisms, the differences between plants and animals and the principles of plant classification. Part I describes the features and methods of use of the microscope, while Part II contains intensive discussions on the evaluation of the morphological, cytological, and histological aspects of plants. The remaining parts cover the biochemical, physiological, and genetic aspects of the plant experiments. This book is directed toward advanced and intermediate level botany teachers and students.