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The Chemistry of Plant Life
Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
Every green leaf is a working laboratory, and Roscoe Thatcher opens its doors. He explains the chemistry that lets plants build sugars, store starch, and turn soil, air, and sunlight into living growth. Clear and rigorous, it bridges the farm field and the test tube. Understand the hidden chemistry that feeds the green world and, through it, us.
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201 chapters
- 1THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE
- 2THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE
- 3ROSCOE W. THATCHER, M.A., D.Agr. Dean of the Department of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Stations. University of Minnesota (formerly Professor of Plant Chemistry. University of Minnesota)
- 4McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc. NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE LONDON: 6 8 BOUVERIE ST., E. C. 4 1921
- 5Preface
- 6CONTENTS
- 7INTRODUCTION
- 8CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE
- 9CHAPTER I
- 10PLANT NUTRIENTS
- 11PLANT FOOD ELEMENTS
- 12AVAILABLE AND UNAVAILABLE FORMS
- 13THE VALUE OF THE SOIL ELEMENTS AS PLANT FOOD
- 14RÔLE OF PLANT FOOD ELEMENTS IN PLANT GROWTH
- 15INORGANIC PLANT TOXINS AND STIMULANTS
- 16References
- 17CHAPTER II
- 18THE ORGANIC COMPONENTS OF PLANTS
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