Designed to meet the needs of the herbal products industry, regulatory agencies, and academic researchers, the book covers plant anatomy at a level appropriate for the pharmacognostic analysis of plant tissues, provides extensive coverage of the history and importance of botanical microscopy, and gives instruction on how to set up a microscopy lab and prepare, view, and archive whole and powdered plant parts for microscopic analysis.
The atlas portion is repeated on an included CD-that also holds extra full color art. The botanicals covered represent 90 percent of the dollar value of botanical sales in the United States The focus is on those species that are in high use, and those that are commonly adulterated or potentially. It also covers a number of popular Asian botanicals, providing the first English language description for many of these.
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Designed to meet the needs of the herbal products industry, regulatory agencies, and academic researchers, the book covers plant anatomy at a level appropriate for the pharmacognostic analysis of plant tissues, provides extensive coverage of the history and importance of botanical microscopy, and gives instruction on how to set up a microscopy lab and prepare, view, and archive whole and powdered plant parts for microscopic analysis.
The atlas portion is repeated on an included CD-that also holds extra full color art. The botanicals covered represent 90 percent of the dollar value of botanical sales in the United States The focus is on those species that are in high use, and those that are commonly adulterated or potentially. It also covers a number of popular Asian botanicals, providing the first English language description for many of these.
Imprint | Crc Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2011 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | February 2011 |
Editors | Roy Upton, Alison Graff, Georgina Jolliffe, Reinhard Langer, Elizabeth Williamson |
Dimensions | 280 x 210 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 800 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4200-7326-3 |
Barcode | 9781420073263 |
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LSN | 1-4200-7326-5 |