Botany : Agricultural Applications

Contents: Introduction. 1. Plants (chiefly seed plants, as to structures and functions. 2. Plants as to kinds, relationships, evolution, and heredity. Agricultural botany is a branch of biology concerned with the study of plants (Kingdom Plantae). Botany is concerned with all aspects of plants, from the smallest and simplest forms to the largest and most complex, from the study of all aspects of an individual plant to the complex interactions of all the different members of a complicated botanical community of plants with their environment and with animals. The study of this course will help you to know the plant world around us and while going through the course you will learn about the pure and applied botany classification of plant, as well as morphological physiological function of various economic plants. The aim of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of varieties of plant in the context of agricultural production as an important factor of technological progress in agriculture. This is also geared toward the development and improvement of method of agricultural production.