I am going to be teaching an intermediate college level course next year
called Plants and Human Affairs. It has not been taught for several
years, but in the past it has combined elements of both a general botany
course and a course on economic botany--it's emphasis has been on
physiological phenomena and relationships. The previous text used was
Langenheim and Thimann's Botany: Plant Biology abd its relation to Human
Affairs which is outdated in the biotech and physiology areas and out fo
print fro almost ten years. If anyone teaches a similar course and can
recommend a recent textbook, I would appreciate it. Most of our Library's
related texts are more than 6-10 years old or pure agricultural or
economic botany. Please reply to me personally, rather than to the list
unless you think this would be of general interest.
Thanks,
Patrick Elvander
Biology Department
Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz
elvander at biology.ucsc.edu
