Cacti
Subtitle: biology and uses
By: edited by Park S. Nobel
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520927889; 9780585466422
Subjects: Plants; Cactus; NATURE; Electronic books; Cacti & Succulents; Utilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Evolution and systematics / Robert S. Wallace and Arthur C. Gibson; title: Shoot anatomy and morphology / Teresa Terrazas Salgado and James D. Mauseth; title: Root structure and function / Joseph G. Dubrovsky and Gretchen B. North; title: Environmental biology / Park S. Nobel and Edward G. Bobich; title: Reproductive biology / Eulogio Pimienta-Barrios and Rafael F. del Castillo; title: Population and community ecology / Alfonso Valiente-Banuet and Héctor Godínez-Alvarez; title: Consumption of Platyopuntias by wild vertebrates / Eric Mellink and Mónica E. Riojas-López; title: Biodiversity and conservation / Thomas H. Boyle and Edward F. Anderson; title: Mesoamerican domestication and diffusion / Alejandro Casas and Giuseppe Barbera; title: Cactus pear fruit production / Paolo Inglese, Filadelfio Basile and Mario Schirra; title: Fruits of vine and columnar cacti / Avinoam Nerd, Noemi Tel-Zur and Yosef Mizrahi; title: Forage, fodder, and animal nutrition / Ali Nefzaoui and Hichem Ben Salem; title: Nopalitos, mucilage, fiber, and cochineal / Carmen Sáenz-Hernández, Joel Corrales-Garcia and Gildardo Aquino-Pérez; title: Insect pests and diseases / Helmuth G. Zimmermann and Giovanni Granata; title: Breeding and biotechnology / Brad Chapman ... [et al.].