Trades & Technology

• NEW - In-depth text boxes.

  • Separates more advanced topics or highlights specific key terminology. Ex.___

• NEW - More illustrations.

  • Clarifies and enhance discussions throughout the text. Ex.___

• NEW - Chapter 2 has been almost completely rewritten to synthesize the revolutionary impact of biotechnology.

  • Alerts students to recent biotechnology advances, their impact on biological concepts and their impact on the practice of plant propagation and makes students aware of the increasing promise and controversy this technology brings with it. Ex.___

• NEW - Chapter 5 has been extensively reorganized.

• NEW - The chapter on clonal propagation has been expanded.

• NEW - Student-friendly elements, such as chapter-opening objectives and a marginal glossary have been added.

  • Assists the student in managing and digesting the vast amount of technical information presented in this course. Ex.___

• NEW - Free glossary CD-ROM packaged with the text.

  • Provides a valuable resource for students learning the extensive new vocabulary of this course; full-color photos help bring many of the terms to life. Ex.___

• NEW - Numerous web references cited throughout the text.

  • Adds to the value of the text as a resource and provide students with access to up-to-the-minute data and discipline developments. Ex.___

• NEW - PowerPoint CD packaged with Instructor's Manual.

  • Contains all tables and art from the text in a ready-to-use PowerPoint format; many of the in-text photos included on the CD have been enhanced with full-color for a more realistic visual presentation. Ex.___

• Emphasis on tissue culture micropropagation.

  • Allows students to focus on a rapidly growing area in the field. Ex.___

• A focus on equipment and facilities.

  • Explores developments in propagation practices and mechanical manipulations. Ex.___

• Coverage of vegetative propagation—Features cuttings; grafting; layering; and specialized roots and stems.

  • Reviews research on adventitious root production and techniques for rooting cuttings. Ex.___

• Flexible organization.

  • Allows for the presentation of techniques without the theoretical framework. Ex.___

• Introductory chapter—Discusses the historical aspect of plant propagation and its role in human society.

  • Gives students a historical account of how propagation activities have been a primary backdrop for human progress leading up to our present era. Ex.___

• Basic biological background—In Ch. 2.

  • Integrates topics toward the overall role of the propagator. Ex.___

• An ecological approach.

  • Examines environmental aspects of propagation. Ex.___

• In-depth text boxes.

  • Separates more advanced topics or highlights specific key terminology. Ex.___

• More illustrations.

  • Clarifies and enhance discussions throughout the text. Ex.___

• Chapter 2 has been almost completely rewritten to synthesize the revolutionary impact of biotechnology.

  • Alerts students to recent biotechnology advances, their impact on biological concepts and their impact on the practice of plant propagation and makes students aware of the increasing promise and controversy this technology brings with it. Ex.___

• Chapter 5 has been extensively reorganized.

• The chapter on clonal propagation has been expanded.

• Student-friendly elements, such as chapter-opening objectives and a marginal glossary have been added.

  • Assists the student in managing and digesting the vast amount of technical information presented in this course. Ex.___

• Free glossary CD-ROM packaged with the text.

  • Provides a valuable resource for students learning the extensive new vocabulary of this course; full-color photos help bring many of the terms to life. Ex.___

• Numerous web references cited throughout the text.

  • Adds to the value of the text as a resource and provide students with access to up-to-the-minute data and discipline developments. Ex.___

• PowerPoint CD packaged with Instructor's Manual.

  • Contains all tables and art from the text in a ready-to-use PowerPoint format; many of the in-text photos included on the CD have been enhanced with full-color for a more realistic visual presentation. Ex.___

I. GENERAL ASPECTS OF PLANT PROPAGATION.

II. SEED PROPAGATION.

III. VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION.

IV. METHODS OF MICROPROPAGATION.

V. PROPAGATION OF SELECTED PLANTS.

Plant Propagation  (Agriculture)

Dale E. Kester is Professor of Pomology emeritus at the University of California, Davis. During his 40 years at the University of California he taught courses in plant propagation and pomology. He has been a member of the American Society of Horticultural Science, becoming a Fellow in 1977. He received jointly the Stark Award in 1980. He has published over 100 research and popular publications in plant propagation and pomology. He has had a lifelong collaboration with Dr. Hudson T. Hartmann which resulted in the publication of the first edition of Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices in 1959, followed by other editions in 1968, 1975, 1983, and 1990. One of the founders of the Western Region of the International Plant Propagators' Society (1960), he has served the society in various capacities including Vice-President, program chair (1996) and President (1997). He received the Curtis J. Alley Achievement Award in 1999.

Fred T. Davies, Jr., Professor of Horticultural Sciences, and Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, Texas A&M University, has taught courses in plant propagation and nursery production and management since 1979. He has co-authored over 100 research and technical publications. He was a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Mexico (1993) and Peru (1999), and a J.S. Guggenheim Fellow (1999). He received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Nursery Crops from the American Society of Horticultural Sciences (1989), L.M. Ware Distinguished Research Award-ASHS-SR (1995), and S.B. Meadows Award of Merit-International Plant Propagator's Society-SR (1994). He is a recipient of the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching-TAMU (1997), Chancellor of Agriculture's Award in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching-TAMU (1998), L.M. Ware Distinguished Teaching Award, ASHS-SR (1998), and L.C. Chadwick Educator's Award, American Nursery and Landscape Association (1999). He is the International Division Vice-President-ASHS. He was President, and is currently Editor, of the IPPS-SR.

Robert L. Geneve is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Kentucky. He teaches courses in plant propagation and seed biology. He has co-authored over 70 scientific and technical articles in seed biology, cutting propagation, and tissue culture. He is also the co-editor of the book Biotechnology of Ornamental Plants and author of A Book of Blue Flowers. He has served as a board member for the International Plant Propagators' Society-Eastern Region and serves on the Editor for the international horticulture journal, Scientia Horticulturae.

Hallmarked as the most successful text of its kind, this remarkably thorough book covers all aspects or the propagation of plants—both sexual and asexual—with considerable attention given to human (vs. natural) efforts to increase plant numbers. The text presents both the art and science of propagation, and conveys knowledge of specific kinds of plants and the particular methods by which those plants must be propagated.

New features of the seventh edition include:

• In-depth text boxes separate more advanced topics or highlight specific key terminology.
• User-friendly elements, such as chapter-opening objectives and a marginal glossary have been added to assist users in managing and digesting the vast amount of technical information presented in this course.
• FREE glossary CD-ROM packaged with the text provides a valuable resource for learning the extensive new vocabulary of this course. Full-color photos and video clips help bring many of the terms to life.
• Chapter 2 has been extensively revised to synthesize the revolutionary impact of biotechnology. The new chapter alerts readers to recent biotechnology advances, their impact on biological concepts and their impact on the practice of plant propagation and makes readers aware of the increasing promise and controversy this technology brings with it.

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Hartmann
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ISBN-10: 0130944904 | ISBN-13: 9780130944900
This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.prenhall.com/hartmann.

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