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Flora unveiled : the discovery and denial of sex in plants / Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]Copyright date: © 2017Description: x, 528 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 9780190490263
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Flora unveiled. Online-Ausgabe New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. 1 Online-Ressource (x, 528 Seiten) | Erscheint auch als: Flora unveiled. Online-Ausgabe New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. 1 Online-Ressource (x, 528 Seiten)DDC classification:
  • 575.6/374
RVK: RVK: WB 2435LOC classification:
  • QK827
Contents:
The quandary over plant sex -- The discovery of sex -- Crop domestication and gender -- Plant- female iconography in Neolithic Europe -- Sacred trees and enclosed gardens -- Mystic plants and Aegean nature goddesses -- The Plantheon of Greek mythology -- Plant sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus -- Roman assimilation of Greek myths and botany -- From herbals to walled gardens : plant gender and iconography -- Troubadours, romancing the rose, and the rebirth of naturalism -- The difficult birth of the two-sex model -- Plant nuptials in the Linnaean era -- Behind the green door : love and lust in eighteenth- century botany -- Wars of the roses : ideology versus experiment -- Idealism and asexualism in the age of Goethe -- Sex and the single cryptogam -- Flora's secret gardens
Call number: Grundsignatur: 2017 A 1579PPN: PPN: 1624624685
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd biol 4.9 Lesesaal Naturwissenschaften (LSN) 2017 A 1579 Available 51844225090
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