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Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Organisms
Chapter 2: Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Chapter 3: Boundaries
Chapter 4: Organism form: composition, size, and shape
Chapter 5: Cellular Structure in Inanimate Life
Chapter 6: Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Structure of Plants
Chapter 7: Producing Form: Development
Chapter 8: Vascular plant anatomy: primary growth
Chapter 9: Secondary growth
Chapter 10: Vascular Plant Form
Chapter 11: Reproduction and sex
Chapter 12: Fungal sex and fungal groups
Chapter 13: Sex and reproduction in non-seed plants
Chapter 14: The Development of Seeds
Chapter 15: Sex and Reproduction in Seed Plants
Chapter 16: Reproduction: development and physiology
Chapter 17: Sex, evolution, and the biological species concept
Chapter 18: Matter, Energy and Organisms
Chapter 19: Cellular Respiration
Chapter 20: Photosynthesis
Chapter 21: Metabolic diversity
Chapter 22: Nutrition and nutrients
Chapter 23: Soils
Chapter 24: Material movement and diffusion’s multiple roles in plant biology
Chapter 25: Plant growth—patterns, limitations and models
Chapter 26: Interactions Involving Conditions
Chapter 27: Biotic Interactions
Chapter 28: Agriculture
Chapter 29: Weeds and weed control
Chapter 30: Threats to agriculture: insects and pathogens
Chapter 31: Propagating plants and developing new plants
A Diversity of Organisms
Acetabularia, an unusual unicellular green algae
Agaricus bisporus, the commercial mushroom
Alfalfa
Bracket Fungi
Calupera, a large coenocytic green algae.
Chlamydomonas, a small unicellular green alga
Chytrids, tiny fungi
Clubmosses: Lycopodium
Coccolithophores, photosynthetic unicellular algae
Coltsoot: Tussilago farfara
Corn
Corralorhiza, a plant that eats fungi
Cryptomonads, unicellular photosynthetic algae
Dandelion
Diatoms, unicellular photosynthetic algae
Dictyostelium: a cellular slime mold
Ephedra: jointfir
Euglena: a unicellular algae
Ginkgo
Glomeromycota: important mycorrhizal fungi
Gonyaulax: a dinoflagellate
Halobacterium
Hemlock
Horsetails, the genus Equisetum
Juniper
Kelp: Laminaria, a brown algae
Lungwort lichen (Lobaria pumonaria)
Marchantia: thalloid liverwort
Marsilea: the 4-leaf clover fern
Molds: ubiquitous fungi
Nostoc: the smallest multicellular organism
Oedogonium: a filamentous green algae
Physarum: a plasmodial slime mold
Phytophthora
Pinus: pine trees
Polytrichium: hairy cap moss
Populus
Potatoes: Solanum tuberosum
Porphyra: an edible red algae
Redwoods: the tallest and largest trees
Rhizobium: nitrogen fixing bacteria
Rhizopus
Rice
Rust fungi (order Pucciniales, formerly Uredinales)
Sagebrush
Sarracenia, a carnivorous plant
Seaweed, Fucus: a brown algae
Sensitive fern
Soybeans (and other beans)
Sphagnum-peat moss
Sunflower: Helianthus annuus
Tar Spot Fungus
Thermus aquaticus
Wheat
Wood ferns
Yeast
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