Smart Plants

Smart Plants
Author: Julie Morris
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1454933437

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This book can change the way you think. Literally. “This informative, accessible cookbook will be a boon to health-conscious eaters.” —Publishers Weekly If you struggle with focus and memory lapses, mental fog, or stress—or if you simply want to optimize your mental performance and protect your brain health—Smart Plants is a must read. Written by New York Times bestselling author and natural-food chef Julie Morris, whose name has become synonymous with “superfoods” and “wellness,” this groundbreaking book reveals the dietary secrets to better brain performance. Combining scientific research with the wisdom of ancient remedies, Smart Plants showcases an exciting array of cognition-enhancing plants—from everyday foods to natural nootropics (edibles that can improve memory, learning, and problem solving). Morris’s 65 mouthwatering, beautifully illustrated recipes make it easy to incorporate these powerful foods into your daily diet. Feed your brain with such palate-pleasing dishes as Berry-Almond Amaranth Porridge, French Lentils with Roasted Radishes, Fig & Hazelnut Wild Rice Salad, Garlicky Butter Bean Soup with Kale, Matcha Custard with Wild Berries, and more!

Pretty Tough Plants

Pretty Tough Plants
Author: Plant Select
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-05-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604697350

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Tough-but-beautiful plant picks There’s a growing demand for dependably hardy plants that require less maintenance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select—the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates—meets this need by promoting plants that allow gardeners everywhere to have stunning, environmentally-friendly gardens that use fewer resources. Pretty Tough Plants highlights 135 of Plant Select’s top plant picks. Each profile features a color photograph and specific details about the plant’s size, best features, and bloom season, along with cultural needs, landscape features, and design ideas. The plant list includes perennials and annuals, groundcovers, grasses, shrubs, and trees. A chart at the end of the book makes it easy to choose the right plants for specific conditions and needs.

Smart Plant Factory

Smart Plant Factory
Author: Toyoki Kozai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811310653

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This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms. The third wave of PFAL business started in around 2010 in Japan and Taiwan, and in USA and Europe it began in about 2013 after the rapid advances in LED technology. The book discusses the basic and advanced developments in recent PFALs and future smart PFALs that emerged in 2016. There is an emerging interest around the globe in smart PFAL R&D and business, which are expected to play an important role in urban agriculture in the coming decades. It is also expected that they will contribute to solving the trilemma of food, environment and natural resources with increasing urban populations and decreasing agricultural populations and arable land area. Current obstacles to successful PFAL R&D and business are: 1) no well-accepted concepts and methodology for PFAL design and management, 2) lack of understanding of the environmental effects on plant growth and development and hydroponics among engineers; 3) lack of understanding of the technical and engineering aspects of PFAL among horticulturists; 4) lack of knowledge of the technical challenges and opportunities in future PFAL businesses among business professionals, policy makers, and investors and 5) lack of a suitable textbook on the recent advances in PFAL technologies and business for graduate students and young researchers. This book covers all the aspects of successful smart PFAL R & D and business.

Smart Process Plants: Software and Hardware Solutions for Accurate Data and Profitable Operations

Smart Process Plants: Software and Hardware Solutions for Accurate Data and Profitable Operations
Author: Miguel J. Bagajewicz
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0071604723

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A Detailed Guide to the New Generation of Smart Process Plants Maximize plant profitability by minimizing operating costs. Smart Process Plants addresses measurements and the data they generate, error-free process variable estimation, control, fault detection, instrumentation upgrade, and maintenance optimization, and then connects these activities to plant economics. Methods for calculating the value of the information produced are included. The book discusses optimal instrumentation type, quality, precision, and location along with preventive maintenance techniques. Practical examples throughout the book demonstrate how to perform essential calculations. Smart Process Plants covers: Measurement instrument performance and measurement errors Variable classification and canonical representation Linear, nonlinear, and dynamic data reconciliation Gross error detection, equivalency, size elimination, and estimation Accuracy of estimators Value of accuracy, control strategies, parametric fault identification, and instrumentation upgrade Maintenance optimization

Brilliant Green

Brilliant Green
Author: Stefano Mancuso
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1610916034

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In this book, a leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have argued that plants are unthinking and inert, yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged this idea, shedding new light on the complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, leading scientist Stefano Mancuso presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.--

Durable Plants for the Garden

Durable Plants for the Garden
Author: James E. Henrich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Alpine garden plants
ISBN: 9781555915902

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"The first resource of its kind, featuring plants handpicked by experts for their ability to thrive in the challenging conditions of the High Plains and intermountain states and beyond"--Cover, p. 4.

When Plants Attack

When Plants Attack
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728412692

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E. Hirsch presents fun and gross facts about a variety of plants along with explaining the science behind why they do what they do. Featured plants include the Venus Flytrap, an African tree that houses stinking ants to protect itself from hungry animals, a "vampire vine" that sucks nutrients from other plants, and fiendishly invasive kudzu.

Killer Plants

Killer Plants
Author: Louise and Richard Spilsbury
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1681033208

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Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, and sundews are all examples of nature's insect traps. They use their sugary nectar to lure prey to them, before each carries out a unique killer plan of capture. The predatory power of the plants featured in this title will stun young students.

Disgusting Plants

Disgusting Plants
Author: Patrick Perish
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612119743

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Not all plants smell as sweet as a rose. Carrion flowers smell like rotting flesh to attract flies and other pollinators. Others, like the Venus flytrap and Nepenthes truncata, actually eat animals! Young readers will be amazed by all of the weird and disgusting plants in this interesting read.

Plants We Eat

Plants We Eat
Author: Jennifer Colby
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1631881256

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Plants We Eat helps young readers learn more about all the plants we eat, including how to eat every part of a plant in one meal! Call-outs throughout the book prompt inquiry and critical thinking skills by asking questions and inviting readers to looks closely at the photographs and diagrams.