Flora unveiled : the discovery and denial of sex in plants / Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz
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
- 575.6/374
- QK827
Contents:
Call number: Grundsignatur: 2017 A 1579PPN: PPN: 1624624685
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
| 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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