further reading - mcgraw-hill...

FURTHER READINGS

CHAPTER 1

Balick, Michael J., and Paul Alan Cox. 1996. Plants, People, and Culture. Scientific American

Library, New York, NY.

Blackwell, Will H. 1990. Poisonous and Medicinal Plants. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,

NJ.

Campbell, Neil A., and Jane B. Reece. 2008. Biology, 8th Edition. Benjamin Cummings,

Redwood City, CA.

Ghillean, Prance Sir, and Mark Nesbitt, Editors. 2005. The Cultural History of Plants.

Routledge, NY.

Goho, Alexandra. 2004. Diatom Menagerie. Science News 166(3): 42–44.

Heiser, Charles B. 1990. Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food. Harvard University Press,

Cambridge, MA.

Lewington, Anna. 1990. Plants for People. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Mauseth, James D. 2009. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, 4th Edition. Jones and

Bartlett, Sudbury, MA.

Pollan, Michael. 2001. The Botany of Desire. Random House, New York, NY.

Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Penguin

Press, New York, NY.

Raven, Peter, Ray F. Evert, and Susan E. Eichhorn. 2005. Biology of Plants, 7th Edition. W.

H. Freeman & Co. New York, NY.

Sumner, Judith. 2004. American Household Botany: A History of Useful Plants, 1620–1900.

Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Vaughan, John G., and Catherine A. Geissler. 2009. The New Oxford Book of Food Plants.

2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

CHAPTER 2

Goldberg, Alfred L., Stephen J. Elledge, and J. Wade Harper. 2001. The Cellular Chamber of

Doom. Scientific American 284(1): 68–73.

Hesman Saey, Tina. 2009. Dissing a Loaded Label for Some Unicellular Life. Science News

175(8): 5–6.

Khakh, Baljit S., and Geoffrey Burnstock. 2009. The Double Life of ATP. Scientific

American 301(6): 84–92.

Netting, Jessica. 2001. A More Perfect Union. Science News 159(20): 314–316.

Scott, John D., and Tony Pawson. 2000. Cell Communication: The Inside Story. Scientific

American 282(6): 72–80.

Tekle, Yonas. I., Laura Wegener Parfrey, and Laura A. Katz. 2009. Molecular Data Are

Transforming Hypotheses on the Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes. BioScience

59(6): 471–481.

Wallace, Douglas C. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA in Aging and Disease. Scientific American

277(2): 40–47.

Westphal, Sylvia Pagán. 2009. High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene. Smithsonian 40(4): 72–

79.

Wilmut, Ian. 1998. Cloning for Medicine. Scientific American 279(6): 58–64.

Zimmer, Carl. 2009. On the Origin of Eukaryotes. Science 325: 666–668.

CHAPTER 3

Forbes, Peter. 2008. Self-Cleaning Materials. Scientific American 299(2): 88–95.

Forterre, Yoel, Jan Skotheim, Jacques Dumais, and L. Mahadevan. 2005. How the Venus

Flytrap Snaps. Nature 433(7024): 421–425.

Mauseth, James D. 1988. Plant Anatomy. Benjamin Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.

Mauseth, James D. 2008. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, 4rd Edition. Jones and


Millus, Susan. 2002. The Wood Detective. Science News 162(12): 184–185.

Moran, Jonathan. 2006. Life and Death in a Pitcher. Natural History 115(8): 56–62.

National Geographic. 2008. Edible: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants.

National Geographic, Washington, DC.

Norris, Scott. 2000. Reading between the Lines. BioScience 50(5): 389–394.

Pietropaolo, James, and Patricia Pietropaolo. 1986. Carnivorous Plants of the World. Timber

Press, Portland, OR.

Roberts, Jonathan. 2002. The Origin of Fruit and Vegetables. Universe, New York, NY.

Ross, Gary N. 1986. Night of the Radishes. Natural History 95(12): 59–64.

Rupp, Rebecca. 1987. Blue Corn and Square Tomatoes. Garden Way, Pownal, VT.

Sanders, Heather L., and Sarah E. Wyatt. 2009. Leaf Evolution and Development: Advancing

Technologies, Advancing Understanding. BioScience 59(1): 17–26.

Schnell, Donald. 2002. Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada, 2nd Edition.

Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Shiga, David. 2004. Ancient Heights. Science News 165(25/26): 390.

Simpson, Beryl B., and Molly Conner-Ogorzaly. 2001. Economic Botany: Plants in Our

World, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Trefil, James. 1985. Concentric Clues from Growth Rings Unlock the Past. Smithsonian

16(4): 47–54.

Van Wyk, Ben-Erik. 2005. Food Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide. Timber Press,

Portland OR.

Zimmer, Carl. 2010. Fatal Attraction. National Geographic 217(3): 80–95.

Tucker, Abigail. 2010. The Venus Flytrap’s Lethal Allure. Smithsonian 40(11): 48 – 55.

CHAPTER 4

Beardsley, Tim. 1998. Catching the Rays. Scientific American 278(3): 25–26.

Brown, Kathryn S. 1995. The Green Clean. BioScience 45(9): 579–582.

Caldwell, Mark. 1995. The Amazing All-Natural Light Machine. Discover 16(12): 88–96.

Demmig-Adams, Barbara, and William W. Adams III. 2002. Antioxidants in Photosynthesis

and Human Nutrition. Science 298: 2149–2153.

Dunn, Richard S. 1972. Sugar and Slaves. W. W. Norton, New York, NY.

Govindjee, and William J. Coleman. 1990. How Plants Make Oxygen. Scientific American

262(2): 50–56.

Hopkins, William G., and Norman P. A. Hüner. 2004. Introduction to Plant Physiology, 3rd

Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Lee, David W., and Kevin S. Gould. 2002. Why Leaves Turn Red. American Scientist 90(6):

524–531.

Marris, Emma. 2006. Sugar Cane and Ethanol: Drink the Best and Drive the Rest. Nature

444:7120: 670–672.

Mauseth, James D. 2009. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology., 4th Edition. Jones and


Mintz, Sidney W. 1991. Pleasure, Profit, and Satiation. Pages 112–129 in Seeds of Change: A

Quincentennial Commemoration, ed. Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Moffat, Anne Simon. 1995. Plants Providing Their Worth in Toxic Metal Cleanup. Science

269: 302–303.

Seymour, Roger S. 1997. Plants That Warm Themselves. Scientific American 276(3): 104–

109.

Taiz, Lincoln, and Eduardo Zeiger. 2006. Plant Physiology, 4th Edition. Sinauer Associates,

Sunderland, MA.

Turgeon, Robert. 2006. Phloem Loading: How Leaves Gain Their Independence. BioScience

56(1): 15–24.

Williams, John B. 2002. Phytoremediation in Wetland Ecosystems: Progress, Problems, and

Potential. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 21(6): 607–635.

CHAPTER 5

Berger, Terry. 1977. “Tulipomania” Was No Dutch Treat to Gambling Burghers.

Smithsonian 8(1): 70–77.

Bryant, Vaughan, Jr. 2000. Does Pollen Prove the Shroud Authentic? Biblical Archaeology

Review 26(6): 36–44.

Buchmann, Stephen L., and Gary Paul Nabhan. 1996. The Forgotten Pollinators. Islands

Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, DC.

Coen, Enrique. 2002. The Making of a Blossom. Natural History 111(4): 48–55.

Finnell, Rebecca B., Editor. 1999. The Flower Issue. Natural History 108(4): 1–100.

Freinkel, Susan. 2004. Roses Are Blue, Violets Are Red. Discover 25(4): 28–29.

Green, Timothy. 1991. Making Scents Is More Complicated Than You’d Think. Smithsonian

22(5): 52–61.

Hansen, Eric. 2000. Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy. Pantheon

Books, New York, NY.

Klesius, Michael. 2002. The Big Bloom. National Geographic 202(1): 102–121.

Meeuse, Bastian, and Sean Morris. 1984. The Sex Life of Flowers. Rainbird, London.

Milius, Susan. 2006. Nectar: The First Soft Drink. Science News 169(19): 298–300.

Moize, Elizabeth A. May, 1978. Tulips: Holland’s Beautiful Business. National Geographic

153(5): 712–728.

Newman, Cathy. 1984. Pollen: Breath of Life and Sneezes. National Geographic 166(4):

496–521.

Newman, Cathy, and Robb Kendrick. 1998. Perfume: The Essence of Illusion. National

Geographic 194(4): 94–119.

Pavord, Anna. 1999. The Tulip. Bloomsbury, London.


Schwartz, David M. 2000. Birds, Bees, and Even Nectar-Feeding Bats Do It. Smithsonian

31(1): 58–71.

Sessions, Laura A., and Steven D. Johnson. 2005. The Flower and the Fly. Natural History

(3): 58–63.

Tanner, Ogden. 1985. The Flowers That Afflict Us with “a Sort of Madness.” Smithsonian

16(8): 168–178.

CHAPTER 6

Allen, Arthur. 2008. A Passion for Tomatoes. Smithsonian 39(5): 54–62.

Barlow, Connie. 2001. Ghost Stories from the Ice Age. Natural History 110(7): 62–67.

Canine, Craig. 2005. Building a Better Banana. Smithsonian 36(7): 96–104.

Dunn, Robert R. 2005. How Ants Disperse Seeds. Natural History 114(7): 30–35.

Genthe, Henry. 1999. Durians Smell Awful—But the Taste Is Heavenly. Smithsonian 30(6):

94–102.

Hubbell, Sue. 1996. Three Cheers for King Pumpkin—Orange and Lovable. Smithsonian

27(7): 64–69.

Hubbell, Sue. 2001. Engineering the Apple. Natural History 110(8): 44–53.

Juniper, Barrie E. 2007. The Mysterious Origins of the Sweet Apple. American Scientist

95(1): 44–51.

Karp, David. 2006. Berried Treasure. Smithsonian 37(4): 82–86.

Newhouse, Joseph R. 1990. Chestnut Blight. Scientific American 263(1): 106–111.


Roberts, Jonathan. 2002. The Origins of Fruit and Vegetables. Universe, New York, NY.

Rosengarten, Frederic, Jr. 1984. The Book of Edible Nuts. Walker and Co., New York, NY.

Rupp, Rebecca. 1987. Blue Corn and Square Tomatoes. Garden Way, Pownal, VT.

Vietmeyer, Noel. 1985. Exotic Edibles Are Altering America’s Diet and Agriculture.


Vietmeyer, Noel. 1987. The Captivating Kiwifruit. National Geographic 171(5): 682–688.

Walsh, Robb. 1999. The Fruit I Can’t Get Past My Nose. Natural History 108(7): 76–78.

Wolf, Thomas H. 1990. How the Lowly Love Apple Rose in the World. Smithsonian 21(5):

110–117.

CHAPTER 7

Bamshad, Michael J., and Steve E. Olson. 2003. Does Race Exist? Scientific American

289(6): 78–85.

Brown, Kathryn. 2000. The Human Genome Business Today. Scientific American 283(1):

50–55.

Dahm, Ralf. 2008. Discovering DNA: Friedrich Miescher and the Early Years of Nucleic

Acid Research. Human Genetics 122(6): 565–581.

Ezzell, Carol. 2000. Beyond the Human Genome. Scientific American 283(1): 64–69.

Ezzell, Carol. 2002. Proteins Rule. Scientific American 286(4): 40–47.

Gerstein, Mark, and Deyou Zheng. 2006. The Real Life of Pseudogenes. Scientific American

295(2): 48–55.

Gibbs, W. Wayt. 2003. The Unseen Genome: Gems among the Junk. Scientific American

289(5): 46–53.

Howard, Ken. 2000. The Bioinformatics Gold Rush. Scientific American 283(1): 58–63.

Jegalian, Karin, and Bruce T. Lahn. 2001. Why Is the Y So Weird? Scientific American

284(2): 56–61.

Kingley, David M. 2009. From Atoms to Traits. Scientific American 300(1): 52–59.

Maddox, Brenda. 2002. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA. HarperCollins, New York,

NY.

Marantz Henig, Robin. 2000. The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of

Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA.

Mendel, Gregor. 1967. Experiments in Plant Hybridization. Harvard University Press,

Cambridge, MA.

Orel, Vitezslav. 1996. Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist. Oxford University Press,

Oxford.

Rennie, J. 1993. DNA’s New Twists. Scientific American 266(3): 122–132.

Sayre, Anne. 1975. Rosalind Franklin and DNA. W. W. Norton, New York, NY.

Taubes, Gary. 2009. RNA Revolution. Discover 30(9): 46–52.

Watson, James D. 1968. The Double Helix. Antheneum, New York, NY.

CHAPTER 8

Blunt, Wilfrid. 1971. The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. Viking Press, New York,

NY.

Briggs, David, and S. Max Walters. 1984. Plant Variation and Evolution, 2nd Edition.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Chase, Mark W. and Michael F. Fay. 2009. Barcoding of Plants and Fungi. Science

325(5940): 682–683.

Coombes, Allen J. 2005. Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their Common

Equivalents. Timber Press, Beaverton, OR.

Conniff, Richard. 2006/2007. Happy Birthday Linnaeus. Natural History 115(10): 42–47.

Conniff, Richard. 2008. On the Origin of a Theory. Smithsonian 39(3): 86–93.

Darwin, Charles (author), and Edward O Wilson (editor). 2006. From So Simple a Beginning:

The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.

Friedman, William E. 2006. Sex among the Flowers. Natural History 115(9): 48–53.

Greenaway, Kate. 1992. Language of Flowers. Dover Press, New York, NY.

Hayden, Thomas. 2009. What Darwin Didn't Know. Smithsonian 39(11): 40–48.

Judd, Walter S., Christopher S. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Peter F. Stevens, and

Michael J. Donoghue. 2007. Plant Systematics, A Phylogenetic Approach, 3rd Edition.

Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Kohn, David. 2005. The Miraculous Season: The Historical Darwin. Natural History 114(9):

38–40.

Laufer, Geraldine Adamich. 1993. The Language of Flowers. Workman, New York, NY.

Litt, Amy. 2006. Origins of Floral Diversity. Natural History 115(5): 34 –40.

Mayr, Ernst. 2000. Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought. Scientific American 283(1): 78–

83.

Miller, Douglass R., and Amy Y. Rossman. 1995. Systematics, Biodiversity, and Agriculture.

BioScience 45(10): 680–686.

Padian, Kevin. 2009. Ten Myths about Charles Darwin. BioScience 59(9): 800–804.

Pennisi, Elizabeth. 2001. Linnaeus’s Last Stand? Science 291: 2304–2307.

Piementel, David, Christa Wilson, Christine McCullum, Rachel Huang, Paulette Dwen,

Jessica Flack, Quynh Tran, Tamara Saltman, and Barabara Cluff. 1995. Economic and

Environmental Benefits of Biodiversity. BioScience 47(11): 747–757.

Quammen, David. 2004. Darwin’s Big Idea. National Geographic 206(5): 2–35.

Quammen, David. 2007. The Name Giver. National Geographic 211(6): 72–87.

Raby, Peter. 2001. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Savage, Jay M. 1995. Systematics and the Biodiversity Crisis. BioScience 45(10): 673–679.

Schiebinger, Londa. 1996. The Loves of Plants. Scientific American 274(2): 110–115.

Stoeckle, Mark Y., and Paul D. N. Hebert. 2008. Barcode of Life. Scientific American 299(4):

82–88

Sulloway, Frank J. 2005. The Evolution of Charles Darwin. Smithsonian 36(9): 58–69.

Withgott, Jay. 2000. Is It “So Long, Linnaeus?” BioScience 50(8): 646–651.

CHAPTER 9

Bold, Harold C., Constantin J. Alexopoulos, and Theodor Delevoryas. 1987. Morphology of

Plants and Fungi, 5th Edition. Harper & Row, New York, NY.

Corner, Edred J. H. 1981. The Life of Plants. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Cox, Paul A., Sandra A. Banack, and Susan J. Murch. 2003. Biomagnification of

Cyanobacterial Neurotoxins and Neurodegenerative Disease among the Chamorra People

of Guam. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 100(23): 13380–13383.

Crepet, William. 1999. Early Bloomers. Natural History 108(4): 40–41.

Doolittle, W. Ford. 2000. Uprooting the Tree of Life. Scientific American 282(2): 90–95.

Gifford, Ernest M., and Adriance S. Foster. 1989. Morphology and Evolution of Vascular

Plants, 3rd Edition. W. H. Freeman & Co., New York, NY.

Grimaldi, David, A. 1996. Amber: Window to the Past. American Museum of Natural

History, New York, NY.

Hershey, David R. 2000. The Truth behind Some Great Plant Stories. The American

Biology Teacher 62(6): 408–413.

Kimmerer, Robin W. 2003. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.

Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.

Langenheim, Jean H. 1990. Plant Resins. American Scientist 78: 16–24.

Ma, Lena Q., Kenneth M. Komar, Cong Tu, Weihua Zhang, Yong Cai, and Elizabeth D.

Kennelley. 2001. A Fern That Hyperaccumulates Arsenic. Nature 409(6820): 579.

Moran, Robbin C. 2004. Dispatches from the Fern Frontier. Natural History 113(8): 52–57.

Pennisi, Elizabeth. 2003. Modernizing the Tree of Life. Science 300(5626): 1692–1697.

Poinar, George, and Robin Poinar. 1994. The Quest for Life in Amber. Perseus, New York,

NY.

Pryor, Kathleen M., Harald Schneider, Alan R. Smith, Raymond Cranfill, Paul G. Wolf,

Jeffrey S. Hunt, and Sedonia D. Stipes. 2001. Horsetails and Ferns Are a Monophyletic

Group and the Closest Living Relatives to Seed Plants. Nature 409(6820): 618–622.

Ross, John F. 1993. Treasured in Its Own Right, Amber Is a Golden Window on the Long

Ago. Smithsonian 23(10): 30–41.

Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Joseph B. Lambert. 2007. Amber's Botanical Origins Revealed.

American Scientist 95(2): 150–157.

Sacks, Oliver, 1996. The Island of the Colour-blind. Picador, London.

CHAPTER 10

Ebbeling, Cara B., Dorota B. Pawlak, and David S. Ludwig. 2002. Childhood Obesity:

Public-Health Crisis, Common Sense Cure. Lancet 360: 473–482.

Fasano, Alessio. 2009. Surprises from Celiac Disease. Scientific American 301(2): 54–61.

Gibbs, W. Wayt. 2005. Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic? Scientific American 292(6): 70–

77.

Gorman, Jessica. 2001. Trans Fats. Science News 160(19): 300–301.

Laudan, Rachel. 2000. Birth of the Modern Diet. Scientific American 283(2): 76–81.

Lemley, Brad. 2004. What Does Science Say You Should Eat? Discover 25(2): 42–49.

Newman, Cathy. 2004. Why Are We So Fat? National Geographic 206(2): 46–61.

Okie, Susan. 2005. Fat Chance. Natural History 114(1): 34–38.

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per. 2001. Feeding the World in the New Millennium. Environment

43(6): 22–31.

Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Penguin

Press, New York, NY.

Pollan, Michael. 2008. In Defense of Food; an Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Press, New York,

NY.

Raloff, Janet. 2004. Counting Carbs. Science News 166(3): 40–41.

Raloff, Janet. 2004. Vitamin D: What’s Enough? Science News 166(16): 248–249.

Taubes, Gary. 2001. The Soft Science of Dietary Fat. Science 291: 2536–2545.

Willett, Walter C., and Meir J. Stampfer. 2003. Rebuilding the Food Pyramid. Scientific

American 288(1): 64–71.

CHAPTER 11

Balter, Michael. 2007. Seeking Agriculture’s Ancient Roots. Science 316 (5833): 1830–1835.

Balter, Michael. 2010. The Tangled Roots of Agriculture. Science 327(5964): 404–406.

Bramanti, B., M. G. Thomas, W. Haak, M. Unterlaender, P. Jores, K. Tambets, I. Antanaitis-

Jacobs, M. N. Haidle, R. Jankauskas, C.-J. Kind, F. Lueth, T. Terberger, J. Hiller, S.

Matusmura, P. Forster, and J. Burger. 2009. Genetic Discontinuity between Local Hunter-

Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers. Science 326(5949): 137–140.

Bryant, Vaughn M., and Glenna Williams-Dean. 1975. The Coprolites of Man. Scientific

American 232(1): 100–109.

Diamond, Jared. 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton

& Co., New York, NY.

Diamond, Jared, and Peter Bellwood. 2003. Farmers and Their Languages: The First

Expansions. Science 300: 597–603.

Finkel, Michael. 2009. Tanzania's Hunter-Gatherers Live 10,000 Years in the Past. National

Geographic 216(6): 94–119.

Fritz, Gayle J. 1995. New Dates and Data on Early Agriculture: The Legacy of Complex

Hunter-Gatherers. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(1): 3–15.

Gilbert, Robert I., and James H. Mielke. 1985. The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Academic

Press, Orlando, FL.

Harlan, Jack R. 1976. The Plants and Animals That Nourish Man. Scientific American

235(3): 88–97.

Harlan, Jack R. 1992. Crops and Man, 2nd Edition. American Society of Agronomy,

Madison, WI.

Harris, David R., and Gordan C. Hillman, Editors. 1989. Foraging and Farming: The

Evolution of Plant Exploitation. Unwin Hyman, London.

Heiser, Charles B. Jr. 1979. The Gourd Book. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.

Lane, Meredith A., Loran C. Anderson, Theodore M. Barkley, Jane H. Bock, Ernest M.

Gifford, David W. Hall, David O. Norris, Thomas L. Rost, and William L. Stern. 1990.

Forensic Botany. BioScience 40(1): 34–39.

Nash, Steve. 2004. Seeds of Time. Archaeology 57(1): 24–29.

Outram, Alan K., Natalie A. Stear, Robin Bendrey, Sandra Olsen, Alexei Kasparov, Victor

Zaibert, Nick Thorpe, and Richard P. Evershed. 2009. The Earliest Horse Harnessing and

Milking. Science 323(5919): 1332–1335.

Piperno, Dolores, and Deborah Pearsall. 1998. The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland

Neotropics. Academic Press, New York, NY.

Pringle, Heather. 1998. The Slow Birth of Agriculture. Science 282: 1446–1450.

Smith, Bruce D. 1995. The Emergence of Agriculture. Scientific American Library. W. H.

Freeman & Co., New York, NY.

Yellen, John E. 1990. The Transformation of the Kalahari !Kung. Scientific American 262(4):

96–105.

Wells, Spencer. 2010. Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization. Random House, New York, NY.

In Further Readings of Chapter 13, I left out the country location (highlighted) for the refer-ence: Albala, Ken’s 2007. Beans: A History. Berg, Oxford, UK.

CHAPTER 12

Doebley, John. 2001. George Beadle’s Other Hypothesis: One-Gene, One-Trait. Genetics

158(6): 487–493.

Dold, Catherine. 1997. The Corn War. Discover 18(12): 108–113.

Foer, Joshua. 2005. The Physics of Popcorn. Discover. 26(5): 24–25.

Goff, Stephen A., and John M. Salmeron. 2004. Back to the Future of Cereals. Scientific

American 291(2): 42–49.

Heaton, Emily A., Frank G. Dohleman, and Stephen P. Long. 2008. Meeting US Biofuel

Goals with Less Land: The Potential of Miscanthus. Global Change Biology 14(9): 2000–

2014.

Heiser, Charles B. 1990. Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food, 3rd Edition. Harvard

University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Iltis, Hugh H. 2000. Homeotic Sexual Translocations and the Origin of Maize (Zea mays,

Poaceae): A New Look at an Old Problem. Economic Botany 54(1): 7–42.

Kammen, Daniel M. 2006. The Rise of Renewable Energy. Scientific American 295(3): 84–

93.

Mandelbaum, Robb. 2006. Life after Oil. Discover 27(8): 54–61.

Potrykus, Ingo. 2001. Golden Rice and Beyond. Plant Physiology 125: 1157–1161.

Rhoades, Robert E. 1993. Corn, the Golden Grain. National Geographic 143(6): 92–117.

Ronald, Pamela C. 1997. Making Rice Disease-Resistant. Scientific American 277(5): 100–

105.

Royte, Elizabeth. 2006. Corn Plastic to the Rescue? Smithsonian, 37(5): 84–88.

Sarath, Gautam, Robert B. Mitchell, Scott E. Sattler, Deanna Funnell, JeVery F. Pedersen,

Robert A. Graybosch, and Kenneth P. Vogel. 2008. Opportunities and Roadblocks in

Utilizing For ages and Small Grains for Liquid Fuels. Journal of Industrial Microbiol

Biotechnology 35(5): 343–354.

Smith, Bruce D. 1995. The Emergence of Agriculture. Scientific American Library. W. H.

Freeman & Co., New York, NY.

Stewart, Doug. 1999. Our Love Affair with Lawns. Smithsonian 30(1): 94–103.

Wald, Matthew L. 2007. Is Ethanol for the Long Haul? Scientific American 296(1): 42–49.

Walker, David A. 2010. Biofuels—for Better or Worse? Annals of Applied Biology 156(3):

319–327.

CHAPTER 13

Albala, Ken. 2007. Beans: A History. Berg, Oxford.

Beard, Benjamin H. 1981. The Sunflower Crop. Scientific American 244(5): 150–157.

DuBois, Christine M., Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney W. Mintz, Editors. 2008. The World of

Soy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Galloway, James N., John D. Aber, Jan Willem Erisman, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Robert W.

Howarth, Ellis B. Cowling, and B. Jack Cosby. 2003. The Nitrogen Cascade. BioScience

53(4): 341–356.

Gruber, Nicholas, and James N. Galloway. 2008. An Earth-System Perspective of the Global

Nitrogen Cycle. Nature 451(7176): 293–296.

Hamblin, Dora Jane. 1985. To Italy, Olive Oil Is Green Gold—and Is as Essential as Vino.


Hapgood, Fred. 1987. The Prodigious Soybean. National Geographic 172(1): 66–91.

Heiser, Charles B. 1990. Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food, 3rd Edition. Harvard

University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Jordan, Thomas E., and Donald E. Weller. 1996. Human Contributions to Terrestrial

Nitrogen Flux. BioScience 46(9): 655–664.

National Research Council. 1989. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes

with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Russelle, Michael P. 2001. Alfalfa. American Scientist 89(3): 252–261.

Smil, Vaclav. 1997. Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle. Scientific American 277(1):

76–81.

Sorensen, Marten. 2004. Supercrop. Natural History 113(3): 38–43.

Trefil, J. 1997. Nitrogen. Smithsonian 28(7): 70–78.

Whittemore, Katherine. 1996. How a Weed Once Scorned Became the Flower of the Hour.


Zwingle, Erla. 1999. Olive Oil, Elixir of the Gods. National Geographic 196(3): 66–81.

CHAPTER 14

Ames, Mercedes, and David M. Spooner. 2008. DNA from Herbarium Specimens Settles a

Controversy about Origins of the European Potato. American Journal of Botany 95(2):

252–257.

Burton,William G. 1989. The Potato, 3rd Edition. Longman Group UK Limited, Essex,

England.

Canine, Craig. 2005. Building a Better Banana. Smithsonian, 36(7): 96–104.

Cock, James H. 1985. Cassava: New Potential for a Neglected Crop. Westview Press,

Boulder, CO.

El-Sharkawy, Mabrouk. 1993. Drought-Tolerant Cassava for Africa, Asia, and Latin

America. BioScience 43(7): 441–451.

Epstein, Helen. 1996. Crippling Harvest. Natural History 105(7): 12–15.

Fry, William E., and Stephen B. Goodwin. 1997. Resurgence of the Irish Potato Famine

Fungus. BioScience 47(6): 363–371.

Garelik, Glenn. 2002. Taking the Bite Out of Potato Blight. Science 298(5599): 1702–1704.

Hawkes, John G., and Javier Francisco-Ortega. 1992. The Potato is Spain during the Late

16th Century. Economic Botany 46(1): 86–97.

Hobhouse, Henry. 1985. Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind. Harper &

Row, New York, NY.

Hughes, Meredith Sayles. 1991. Potayto, Potahto—Either Way You Say It, They A’peel.


Nassar, Nagib, and Rodomiro Ortiz. 2010. Breeding Cassava to Feed the Poor. Scientific

America 302(5): 78–84.


Reader, John. 2008. Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History. William Heinemann,

London.

Rhoades, Robert E. 1982. The Incredible Potato. National Geographic 161(5): 668–694.

Salamon, Redcliffe N. 1949. The History and Social Influence of the Potato. Cambridge

University Press, Cambridge, England.

Schumann, Gail L. 1991. Plant Diseases: Their Biology and Social Impact. APS Press, St.

Paul, MN.

Sokolov, Raymond. 1991. Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter between the New

World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats. Summit Books, New

York, NY.

Viola, Herman, and Carolyn Margolis, Editors. 1991. Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial

Commemoration. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Weaver, William Woys. 2000. 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From. Algonquin

Books of Chapel Hill, NC.

Zuckerman, Larry. 1998. Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. North

Point Press, New York, NY.

CHAPTER 15

Biello, David. 2006. BT Pesticide May Not Really Be an Insect Killer. Scientific American

295(6): 30–33.

Borlaug, Norman E. 2000. Ending World Hunger: The Promise of Biotechnology and the

Threat of Antiscience Zealotry. Plant Physiology 124: 487–490.

Brown, Kathryn. 2001. Seeds of Concern. Scientific American 284(4): 52–57.

Charles, Daniel. 2001. Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food.

Perseus, Cambridge, MA.

Charles, Daniel. 2001. Seeds of Discontent. Science 294: 772–775.

Cherian, Sam, and Margarida M. Oliveira. 2005. Transgenic Plants in Phytoremediation:

Recent Advances and New Possibilities. Environmental Science & Technology 39(24):

9377–9390.

Chrispeels, Maarten J. 2000. Biotechnology and the Poor. Plant Physiology 124: 3–6.

Clapp, Jennifer. 2005. The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural

Biotechnology. Global Governance 11(4): 467–485.

Cleveland, David A., Daniela Soleri, and Steven E. Smith. 1994. Do Folk Crop Varieties

Have a Role in Sustainable Agriculture? BioScience 44(11): 740–751.

Cohen, Joel E. 2005. Human Population Grows Up. Scientific American. 293(3): 48–55.

Cox, Thomas S., Jerry D. Glover, David L. Van Tassel, Cindy M. Cox, and Lee R. DeHaan,

2006. Prospects for Developing Perennial Grain Crops. BioScience 56(8): 649–658.

Doebley, John F., Brandon S. Gaut, and Bruce D. Smith. 2006. The Molecular Genetics of

Crop Domestication. Cell 127(7): 1309–1321.

Dubock, Adrian C. 2009. Crop Conundrum. Nutrition Reviews 67(1): 17–20.

Elstein, David. 2003. ARS Is Banking on Germplasm. Agricultural Research February: 12–

14.

Gillis, Anna Maria. 1993. Keeping Traditions on the Menu. BioScience 43(7): 425–429.

Glover, Jerry D., Cindy M. Cox, and John P. Reganold. 2007. Future Farming: A Return to

Roots? Scientific American 297(2): 82–89.

Goff, Stephen A., and John M. Salmeron. 2004. Back to the Future of Cereals. Scientific

American 291(2): 42–49.

Jordan, Carl F. 2002. Genetic Engineering, the Farm Crisis, and World Hunger. Bioscience

52(6): 523–530.

Langridge,William H. R. 2000. Edible Vaccines. Scientific American 283(3): 66–71.

Mayer, Jorge E. 2005. The Golden Rice Controversy: Useless Science or Unfounded

Criticism? Bioscience 55(9): 726–727.

Mayer, Jorge E., Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer, and Peter Beyer. 2008. Biofortified Crops to Alleviate

Micronutrient Malnutrition. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 11(2): 166–170.

National Research Council. 1984. Amaranth: Modern Prospects for an Ancient Crop.

National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

National Research Council. 1989. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes

with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

National Research Council. 2010. Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm

Sustainability in the United States. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Oster, Gerald, and Selmaree Oster. 1985. The Great Bread Fruit Scheme. Natural History

94(3): 34–41.

Pew Initiative. 2004. Feeding the World: A Look at Biotechnology and World Hunger. The

Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, Washington, DC.

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per. 2001. Feeding the World in the New Millennium. Environment

43(6): 22–31.

Polak, Paul. 2005. The Big Potential of Small Farms. Scientific American 293(3): 84–91.

Potrykus, Ingo. 2001. Golden Rice and Beyond. Plant Physiology 125: 1157–1161.

Power, J. F., and R. F. Follett. 1987. Monoculture. Scientific American 256(3): 78–86.

Powledge, Fred. 1995. The Food Supply’s Safety Net. BioScience 45(4): 235–243.

Raloff, Janet. 2004. The Ultimate Crop Insurance. Science News 166(11): 170–172.

Reisner, Marc. 1986. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.

Viking Press, New York, NY.

Schmidt, Charles W. 2005. Genetically Modified Foods Breeding Uncertainty.

Environmental Health Perspectives 13(8): A526–A533.

Schoen, Daniel J., and Anthony H. D. Brown. 2001. The Conservation of Wild Plant Species

in Seed Banks. BioScience 51(11): 960–966.

Schulze, Richard. 2005. Carolina Gold Rice: The Ebb and Flow History of a Lowcountry

Cash Crop. History Press, Charleston.

Sears, Mark K., Richard L. Hellmich, Diane E. Stanley-Horn, Karen S. Oberhauser, John M.

Pleasants, Heather R. Mattila, Blair D. Siegfried, and Galen P. Dively. 2001. Impact of Bt

Corn Pollen on Monarch Butterfly Populations: A Risk Assessment. Proceedings of the

National Academy of Science 98: 11937–11942.

Shell, Ellen Ruppel. 1990. Seeds in the Bank Could Stave Off Disaster on the Farm.


Sokolov, Raymond. 1991. Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter between the New

World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats. Summit Books, New

York, NY.

Tang, Guangwen, Jian Qin, Gregory G. Dolnikowski, Robert M. Russell, and Michael A.

Grusak. 2009. Golden Rice Is an Effective Source of Vitamin A. American Journal of

Clinical Nutrition 89(6): 1776–1783.

Tilman, David, Kenneth G. Cassman, Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Stephen

Polasky. 2002. Agricul-tural Sustainability and Intensive Production Practices. Nature

418: 671–677.

Tucker, Jonathan B. 1986. Amaranth: The Once and Future Crop. BioScience 36(1): 9–13.

Viola, Herman J., and Carolyn Margolis, Editors. 1991. Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial

Commemoration. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Weaver, William Woys. 2000. 100 Vegetables and Where They Come From. Algonquin

Books of Chapel Hill, NC.

Wheelwright, Jeff. 2001. Genetically Altered Corn. Discover 22(3): 38–43.

Wright, Karen. 2003. Terminator Genes. Discover 24(8): 48–51.

Zerega, Nyree J. C. 2004. The Breadfruit Trail. Natural History 112(10): 46–51.

Alexander, Caroline. 2008. Captain Bligh’s Cursed Breadfruit. Smithsonian 40 (6): 56 – 88.

CHAPTER 16

Bales, Kevin. 2001. Going Cheap. New Internationalist 337: 14–16.

Binder, Devin K. 2001. The Medical History of Chocolate. The Pharos Spring.

Blackman, Allen, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartori, and Jeffrey Chow. 2007. Shade Coffee & Tree

Cover Loss: Lessons from El Salvador. Environment 49(7): 22–33.

Coady, Chantal. 1993. Chocolate: The Food of the Gods. Chronicle Books, San Francisco,

CA.

Coe, Sophie D., and Michael D. Coe. 1996. The True History of Chocolate. Thames and

Hudson, London.

Ellison, Katherine. 2004. Can Great Coffee Save the Jungle? Smithsonian 35(3): 100–107.

Gadsby, Patricia. 2002. Endangered Chocolate. Discover 23(8): 64–71.

Galvin, Ruth Mehrtens. 1986. Sybaritic to Some, Sinful to Others, but How Sweet It Is.


Hopley, Claire. 1991. Chocolate and Charity: A Quaker Legacy. British Heritage 12(3): 56–

68.

Illy, Ernesto. 2002. The Complexity of Coffee. Scientific American 286(6): 86–91.

Knight, Ian, Editor. 1999. Chocolate and Cocoa: Health and Nutrition. Blackwell Science,

Oxford, UK.

Lopez, Ruth. 2002. Chocolate: The Nature of Indulgence. Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY.

Pendergrast, Mark. 1999. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It

Transformed Our World. Basic Books, New York, NY.

Perfecto, Ivette, Robert A. Rice, Russell Greenburg, and Martha E. Van der Voort. 1996.

Shade Coffee: A Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity. BioScience 46(8): 598–608.

Philpott, Stacy M., Peter Bichier, Robert Rice, and Russell Greenberg, 2007. Field-Testing

Ecological and Economic Benefits of Coffee Certification Programs. Conservation

Biology 21(4): 975–985.

Raloff, Janet. 2004. Coffee, Spices, Wine. Science News 165: 282–284.

Reid, T. R. 2005. What’s the Buzz? National Geographic 207(1): 2–33.

Standage, Tom. 2006. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Walker, New York, NY.

Starbird, Ethel A. 1981. The Bonanza Bean Coffee. National Geographic 159(3): 388–405.

Weinberg, Bennett A., and Bonnie Bealer. 2001. The World of Caffeine: The Science and

Culture of the World’s Most Popular Drug. Routledge, New York, NY.

Young, Allen M. 1994. The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao. Smithsonian

Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Young, Gordon. 1984. Chocolate: Food of the Gods. National Geographic 166(5): 663–687.

CHAPTER 17

Borrell, Brendan. 2009. What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers? Smithsonian 40(1): 76 – 83.

Cannon, John, and Margaret Cannon. 2003. Dye Plants and Dyeing. Timber Press, Portland,

OR.

Goff, S. A., and H. J. Klee. 2006. Plant Volatile Compounds: Sensory Cues for Health and

Nutritional Value? Science 311(5762): 815–819.

Harriss, Joseph A. 2000. For the Love of Mustard. Smithsonian 31(3): 102–110.

Lunny, Vivian. 1997. Aromatherapy. Smithmark Books, New York, NY.

Nabhan, Gary P. 1997. Why Chilies Are Hot. Natural History 106(5): 24–28.

Parthasarathy, Villupanoor A., Bhageerathy Chempakam, and T. John Zachariah, Editors.

2008. Chemistry of Spices. CAB International, Cambridge, MA.

Prance, Sir Ghillean, and Mark Nesbitt, Editors. 2005. The Cultural History of Plants.

Routledge, New York, NY.


Robbins, Jim. 1992. Care for a Little Hellish Relish? Or Try a Hotsicle. Smithsonian 22(10):

42–51.

Rosengarten, Frederic, Jr., 1969. The Book of Spices. Livingston, Philadelphia, PA.

Schiebinger, Londa. 2004. Plants and Empire. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sherman, Paul W., and Jennifer Billing. 1999. Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices.

BioScience 49(6): 453–463.

Sherman, Paul W., and Samuel M. Flaxman. 2001. Protecting Ourselves from Food.

American Scientist 89(2): 142–151.

Stix, Gary. 2007. Spice Healer. Scientific American 296(2): 66–69.

Swahn, Jan O. 1997. The Lore of Spices. Barnes and Noble, New York, NY.

Ward, Diane Raines. 1988. Flowers Are a Mine for a Spice More Precious Than Gold.


Wernick, Robert. 1984. Men Launched 1,000 Ships in Search of the Dark Condiment.

Smithsonian 14(11): 128–148.

Wolkomir, Richard. 1995. Without Garlic, Life Would Be Just Plain Tasteless. Smithsonian

26(9): 71–79.

CHAPTER 18

Balick, Michael J., and Paul Alan Cox. 1996. Plants, People, and Culture. Scientific

American Library, New York, NY.

Bourne, Joel K. 2009. Redwoods: Super Trees. National Geographic 219(4): 28–59.

Burckle, Lloyd, and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. 2003. Stradivari, Violins, Tree Rings, and the

Maunder Minimum: A Hypothesis. Dendrochronologia 21(1): 41–45.

Gardner, Haillie. 2009. Cut Down. E-The Environment Magazine 20(2): 14–19.

Gillis, Anna Maria. 1990. The New Forestry. BioScience 40(8): 558–562.

Heinrich, Linda. 1992. The Magic of Linen. Orca, Victoria, British Columbia.

Heiser, Charles B. 1979. The Gourd Book. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.

Hough, Romeyn B. 2007. The Woodbook: The American Woods (1883–1913, 1928).

Taschen, Cologne, Germany.

Hutchins, Carleen M. 1981. The Acoustics of Violin Plates. Scientific American 245(10):

170–186.

Jepson, Barbara. 1990. It Is No Disgrace to Be Second Fiddle to a Stradivarius. Smithsonian

21(7): 160–168.

Jones, Robert W. 2006. March of the Weevils: How a Mexican Beetle Launched a Hundred

Year Attack on United States Cotton. Natural History 115(1): 30–35.

Joseph, Marjory L. 1988. Essentials of Textiles. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth, TX.

Laurance, William F. 2007. Forest Destruction in Tropical Asia. Current Science 93(11):

1544–1550.

Lemonick, Michael D. 2000. Stradivari’s Secret. Discover 21(7): 80–85.


Luoma, Jon R. 1997. The Magic of Paper. National Geographic 191(3): 88–109.

Margolis, Mac. 1991. Tomorrow’s Trees. World Monitor (Nov.): 34–40.

McClintock, Jack. 2002. The Life, Death, and Life of a Tree. Discover 23(5): 68–75.

Newman, Cathy. 2003. Dreamweavers. National Geographic 203(1): 50–73.

Perry, David A., Ram Oren, and Stephen C. Hart. 2008. Forest Ecosystems. The Johns

Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Rice, Richard E., Raymond E. Gullison, and John W. Reid.

1997. Can Sustainable Management Save Tropical Forests? Scientific American 276(4):

44–49.

Rymer, Russ. 2004. Saving the Music Tree. Smithsonian 35(1): 52–63.

Sandved, Kjell. 1993. Bark: The Formation, Characteristics, and Uses of Bark around the

World. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Schuster, Angela M. H. 1995. Colorful Cotton. Archaeology 48(4): 40–45.

Sentence, Bryan. 2001. Art of the Basket. Thames & Hudson, London.

Shaw, Robert. 2000. American Baskets. Clarkson Potter, New York, NY.

Stevens, Jane. 1995. Bamboo Is Back. International Wildlife 25(1): 38–45.

Thompson, Jon. 1994. Cotton, King of Fibers. National Geographic 185(6): 60–87.

Wilson, Kax. 1979. A History of Textiles. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Wyckoff, Lydia, Editor. 2001. Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection. The

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.

CHAPTER 19

Blackwell, Will H. 1990. Poisonous and Medicinal Plants. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,

NJ.

Blumenthal, Mark, Alicia Goldberg, and Josef Brinckmann, Editors. 2000. Herbal Medicine.

Integrative Medicine Communications, Newton, MA.

Boudreau, Mary D., and Frederick A. Beland. 2006. An Evaluation of the Biological and

Toxicological Properties of Aloe barbadensis (Miller), Aloe vera. Journal of

Environmental Science and Health Part C 24(1): 103–154.

Cox, Paul Alan, and Michael J. Balick. 1994. The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug

Discovery. Scientific American 269(12): 82–87.

Duke, James A. 2000. The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook—Your Comprehensive

Reference to the Best Herbs for Healing. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA.

Dunavan, Claire Panosian. 2005. Tackling Malaria. Scientific American 293(6): 76–83.

Estes, J. Worth, and Paul Dudley White. 1965. William Withering and the Purple Foxglove.

Scientific American 212(6): 110–117.

Gold, Paul, E. Larry Cahill, and Gary L. Wenk. 2003. The Lowdown on Ginkgo Biloba.

Scientific American 288(4): 86–91.


Lewis, Walter, and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis. 2003. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting

Man’s Health, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.

Mann, John. 1992. Murder, Magic, and Medicine. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Martens, Pim, and Lisbeth Hall. 2000. Malaria on the Move: Human Population Movement

and Malaria Transmission. Emerging Infectious Diseases 6(2): 103–109.

Milner, Richard, Laurel Kendall, and Vittorio Maestro, Editors. 1997. World of the Shaman.

Natural History 106(2): 32–53 (a special section).

Moerman, Daniel. 1998. Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Nicholson, Rob. 2000. Az-Tech Medicine. Natural History 108(10): 54–58.

Nicolaou, K. C., Rodney K. Guy, and Pierre Potier. 1996. Taxoids: New Weapons against

Cancer. Scientific American 274(6): 94–98.

Page, Jake. 2001. Take Two and Call Me in the Morning. Smithsonian 32(5): 96–105.

Pizzolato, Joseph F. 2003. The Camptothecins. The Lancet 361: 2235–2243.

Plotkin, Mark J. 1990. The Healing Forest: The Search for New Jungle Medicines. The

Futurist 24(1): 9–15.

Plotkin, Mark J. 1993. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New

Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest. Viking, New York, NY.

Plotkin, Mark J. 2000. Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature’s Healing Secrets. Viking, New

York, NY.

Riddle, John M., and J. Worth Estes. 1992. Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval

Times. American Scientist 80(3): 226–233.

Riddle, John M., J. Worth Estes, and Josiah C. Russell. 1994. Ever Since Eve—Birth Control

in the Ancient World. Archaeology 47(2): 29–35.

Rocco, Fiammetta. 2004. Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the

World. Perennial (Harper Collins), NewYork, NY.

Ross, Ivan A. 1999. Medicinal Plants of the World, Vol. 1. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

Ross, Ivan A. 2001. Medicinal Plants of the World, Vol. 2. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

Schultes, Richard. E., and Siri Von Reis, Editors. 1995. Ethnobotany: Evolution of a

Discipline. Dioscorides Press, Portland, OR.

Schuster, Angela M. H. 2001. On the Healer’s Path. Archaeology 54(4): 34–38.

Steenkamp, Vanessa, and Micheal J. Stewart. 2007. Medicinal Applications and

Toxicological Activities of Aloe Products. Pharmaceutical Biology 45(5): 411–420.

Sumner, Judith. 2000. The Natural History of Medicinal Plants. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Swerdlow, Joel L. 2000. Nature’s Medicine: Plants That Heal. National Geographic Press,

Washington, DC.

Swerdlow, Joel L. 2000. Nature’s Rx. National Geographic 197(4): 98–117.

Taylor, David. 2002. Getting to the Root of Ginseng. Smithsonian 33(4): 98–103.

Webster, Donovan. 2000. Malaria Kills One Child Every 30 Seconds. Smithsonian 31(6): 32–

44.

Weissmann, Gerald. 1991. Aspirin. Scientific American 264(1): 84–90.

CHAPTER 20

Bartecchi, Carl E., Thomas D. MacKenzie, and Robert W. Shrier. 1995. The Global Tobacco

Epidemic. Scientific American 272(5): 44–51.

Bloom, Floyd E., Editor. 1997. The Science of Substance Abuse. Science 278: 45–70 (a

special issue).

Boucher, Douglas H. 1991. Cocaine and the Coca Plant. BioScience 41(2): 72–76.

Daniel, M. 2006. Medicinal Plants: Chemistry and Properties. Science Publishers, Enfield,

NH.

Di Franza, Joseph R. 2008. Hooked from the First Cigarette. Scientific American 298(5): 82–

87.

Gatley, Iain. 2001. Tobacco: The Story of How Tobacoo Seduced the World. Grove Press,

New York, NY.

Grim, Pamela. 1999. Vital Signs: Runaway Heart. Discover 20(4): 40–43.

Hobhouse, Henry. 2003. Seeds of Wealth. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC.

Iverson, Leslie. 2000. The Science of Marijuana. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Lewis, Walter, and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis. 2003. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting

Man’s Health, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.


Meyer, John A. 1992. Cigarette Century. American Heritage 43(8): 72–80.

Musto, David. 1989. America’s First Cocaine Epidemic. Wilson Quarterly Summer: 59–65.

Musto, David F. 1991. Opium, Cocaine, and Marijuana in American History. Scientific

American 265(1): 40–47.

Nestler, Eric J., and Robert C. Malenka. 2004. The Addicted Brain. Scientific American

290(3): 78–86.

Nicoll, Roger A., and Bradley E. Alger. 2004. The Brain’s Own Marijuana. Scientific

American 291(6): 68–75.


Powledge, Tabitha M. 1999. Addiction and the Brain. BioScience 49(7): 513–519.

Prance, Sir Ghillean, and Mark Nesbitt, Editors. 2005. The Cultural History of Plants.

Routledge, New York, NY.

Schultes, Richard Evans. 1979. Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. McGraw-

Hill, New York, NY.

Seppa, Nathan. 2010. Not Just a High. Science News 177(13): 16–20.

Weil, Andrew. 1995. The New Politics of Coca. New Yorker May 15: 70–80.

White, Peter. 1989. An Ancient Indian Herb Turns Deadly: Coca. National Geographic

175(1): 3–47.

Chapter 21

Beggs, Paul J. 2004. Impacts of Climate Change on Aeroallergens: Past and Future. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 34(10): 1507–1513.

Blackwell, Will H. 1990. POISONOUS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Fitter, Alastair H., and Richard S. R. Fitter. 2002. Rapid Changes in Flowering Time in British Plants. Science 296(5573): 1689–1691.

Jelks, Mary. 1986. Allergy Plants That Cause Sneezing and Wheezing. World-Wide Publications, Tampa, FL.

Lampe, Kenneth, and Mary Ann McCann. 1985. AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants. AMA, Chicago, IL.

Lasley, Elizabeth Norton. 1999. Having Their Toxins and Eating Them Too. BioScience 49(12): 945–950.

Lawrence, Susan V. 1984. Recent Advances in Hay Fever Research Are Nothing to Sneeze At. Smithsonian 15(6): 100–111.

Levetin, Estelle, and Peter Van de Water. 2008. Changing Pollen Types/Concentrations/Distribution in the United States: Fact or Fiction? Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 8(5): 418–424.

Levy, Charles K., and Richard B. Primack. 1984. A Field Guide to Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms of North America. Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, VT.

Lewis, Walter, and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis. 2003. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man’s Health, 2nd Edtion. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.

Lewis, Walter H., Prathibha Vinay, and Vincent E. Zenger. 1983. Airborne and Allergenic Pollen of North America. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Lichtenstein, Lawrence. 1993. Allergy and the Immune System. Scientific American 269(3): 116–124.

Macias, Francisco, Juan C. G. Galindo, Jose M. G. Molinillo, and Horace C. Cutler, Editors. 2004. Allelopathy: Chemistry and Mode of Action of Allelochemicals. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Mayor, Adrienne. 1995. Mad Honey! Archaeology 48(6): 32–40.

Menzel, Annette. 2000. Trends in Phenological Phases in Europe between 1951 and 1996. International Journal of Biometeorology 44(2): 76–81.

National Research Council. 1992. Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Pain, Stephanie. 1994. Murder Most Botanical. New Scientist 144: 54–57.

Puri, H. S. 1999. Neem—the Divine Tree, Azadirachtia indica. Harwood Academic Publishers, Australia.

Raloff, Janet. 2006. A Little Less Green? Science News 169(5): 74–76.

Raloff, Janet. 2007. Herbal Herbicides. Science News 171(11): 167–169.

Rosenfeld, Jeff. 2001. The Itch to Forecast. Weatherwise 54(4): 16–25.

Shea, Katherine M., Robert T. Truckner, Richard W. Weber, and David B. Peden. 2008. Climate Change and Allergic Disease. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 122(3): 443–453.

Singh, R. P., and R. C. Saxena, Editors. 1999. Azadirachta Indica A. Juss. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH.

Turner, Nancy J., and Adam F. Szcawinski. 1995. Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms of North America. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Wodehouse, Roger P. 1971. Hay Fever Plants, 2nd Edition. Hafner Press, New York, NY.

Chapter 22

Amato, Ivan. 2004. Plankton Planet. Discover 25(8): 52–57.

Anderson, Donald M. 1994. Red Tides. Scientific American 271(2): 62–68.

Burkholder, JoAnn M., and Howard B. Glasgow. 2001. History of Toxic Pfisteria in North Carolina Estuaries from 1991 to Present. BioScience 51(10): 827–841.

Carmichael, Wayne W. 1994. The Toxins of Cyanobacteria. Scientific American 270(1): 78–86.

Chisti, Yusuf. 2007. Biodiesel from Microalgae. Biotechnology Advances 25(3): 294–306.

Dybas, Cheryl L. 2003. Harmful Algal Blooms: Biosensors Provide New Ways of Detecting and Monitoring Growing Threat in Coastal Waters. Bioscience 53(10): 918–923.

Enserink, Martin. 1999. Biological Invaders Sweep In. Science 285: 1834–1836.

Graham, Linda E., and Lee W. Wilcox. 2000. Algae. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

May, Mike. 1998. Drugs from Dinoflagellates. Environmental Health Perspectives 106(6): A248–249.

Mee, Laurence. 2006. Reviving Dead Zones. Scientific American 295(5): 78–85.

Meinesz, Alexandre, translated by Daniel Simberloff. 1999. Killer Algae. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Pienkos, Philip T., and Al Darzins. 2009. The Promise and Challenges of Microalgal-Derived Biofuels. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 3(4): 431-440.

Radmer, Richard J. 1996. Algal Diversity and Commercial Algal Products. BioScience 46(4): 263–270.

Sze, Phillip. 1998. A Biology of the Algae, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Van Dolah, Frances M. 2000. Marine Algal Toxins: Origins, Health Effects, and Their Increased Occurrence. Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements 108(Supplement 1): 133–141.

Vroom, Peter S., and Celia M. Smith. 2001. The Challenge of Siphonous Green Algae. American Scientist 89(6): 524–532.

Wehr, John, and Robert Sheath. 2003. Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Chapter 23

Agrios, George N. 1997. Plant Pathology, 4th Edition. Academic Press, New York, NY.

Bever, James D., Peggy A. Schultz, Anne Pringle, and Joseph B. Morton. 2001. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: More Diverse Than Meets the Eye, and the Ecological Tale of Why. BioScience 51(11): 923–932.

Collins, James P. 2004. Where Have All the Frogs Gone? Natural History 113(5): 44–49.

Deacon, Jim. 2006. Fungal Biology, 4th Edition. Blackwell, Oxford, U.K.

Freinkel, Susan. 2002. If All the Trees Fall in the Forest. Discover 23(12): 66–73.

Fussman, Cal. 2005. Dr. Mushroom. Discover 26(7): 48–53.

Grice, Gordon. 2008. Pondering a Parasite. Discover 29(7): 54–56.

Grice, Gordon. 2009. Seeing the Forest for the Lichens. Discover 30(10): 56–60.

Hudler, George W. 1998. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Hudler, George W. 2004. Golden Moldies. Natural History 113(5): 40–43.

Kendrick, Bryce. 2000. The Fifth Kingdom, 3rd Edition. Focus Text, Newburyport, MA.

Lipske, Mike. 1994. A New Gold Rush Packs the Woods in Central Oregon. Smithsonian 24(10): 34–45.

Money, Nicholas P. 2002. Mr. Bloomfield’s Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Purvis, William. 2000. Lichens. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C.

Rizzo, David M., and Matteo Garbelotto. 2003. Sudden Oak Death: Endangering California and Oregon Forest Ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(4): 197–204.

Sanders, William B. 2001. Lichens: The Interface between Mycology and Plant Morphology. BioScience 51(12): 1025–1035.

Schumann, Gail L. 1991. Plant Diseases: Their Biology and Social Impact. APS Press, St. Paul, MN.

Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran. 1997. Lichens. National Geographic 191(2): 58–71.

Stephenson, Steven L. 2010. The Kingdom Fungi. Timer Press, Portland, OR.

Wolkomir, Richard. 1998. Racing to Revive Our Embattled Elms. Smithsonian 29(3): 40–49.

Wright, Karen. 2004. Return of the King of Trees. Discover 25(5): 58–61.

Chapter 24

Arnold, Wilfred Niels. 1989. Absinthe. Scientific American 260(6): 112–117.

Campbell, Christy. 2004. Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World. HarperCollins, New York, NY.

Chang, S. T., and P. G. Miles. 1984. A New Look at Cultivated Mushrooms. BioScience 34(6): 358–362.

Dalton, Rex. 2005. Saving the Agave. Nature 438: 1070-1071

De Keersmaecker, Jacques. 1996. The Mystery of Lambic Beer. Scientific American 275(2): 74–80.

Gibbons, Boyd. 1992. Alcohol: The Legal Drug. National Geographic 181(2): 2–39.

Hall, Ian R., (Editor), Steven L. Stephenson, Peter K. Buchanan, Wang Yun, and Anthony L. J. Cole. 2003. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Hesseltine, Clifford W. 1991. Zygomycetes in Food Fermentation. The Mycologist 5(4): 162–169.

Hesseltine, Clifford W., and Hwa L. Wang. 1980. The Importance of Traditional Fermented Foods. BioScience 30(6): 402–404.


Katz, Solomon H., and Fritz Maytag. 1991. Brewing an Ancient Beer. Archaeology 44(4): 24–33.

Klatsky, Arthur L. 2004. Drink to Your Health? Scientific American 288(2): 74–81.

Lewis, Walter H., and Memory Elvin-Lewis. 2003. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Human Health. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.

Liger-Belair, Gerard. 2003. The Science of Bubbly. Scientific American 288(1): 80–85.

Lipske, Mike. 1994. A New Gold Rush Packs the Woods in Central Oregon. Smithsonian 24(10): 34–45.

Lock, Carrie. 2004. Original Microbrews. Science News 166(14): 216–218.

Musto, David F. 1996. Alcohol in American History. Scientific American 274(4): 78–83.


Rose, Anthony H. 1981. The Microbial Production of Food and Drink. Scientific American 245(1): 127–138.

Ruy-Sanchez, Alberto and Margarita de Orellana. 2004. Tequila. Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C.

Schiebinger, Londa. 2004. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sokolov, Raymond. 1992. Flower of the Vine. Natural History 101(2): 80–83.

Trinci, Anthony P. J. 1991. “Quorn” Mycoprotein. The Mycologist 5(3): 106–109.

Valenzuela-Zapata, Ana Guadalupe, and Gary Paul Nabhan. 2004. ¡Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Vallee, Burt L. 1998. Alcohol in the Western World. Scientific American 278(6): 80–85.

Webb, A. Dinsmoor. 1984. The Science of Making Wine. American Scientist 72(4): 360–367.

Welland, Fred. 1997. Mushroom Madness. Canadian Geographic 117(1): 62–68.

Wiebe, Marilyn G. 2004. Quorn™ Myco-protein—Overview of a Successful Fungal Product. Mycologist 18(1): 17–20.

Chapter 25

Ammirati, Joseph F., James A. Traquair, and Paul A. Horgen. 1985. Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northern United States and Canada. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.

Hill, Edwin. 1974. “That’s Funny,” said Fleming on Discovering Penicillin. British History Illustrated 1(3): 56–63.

Hudler, George W. 1998. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Institute of Medicine. 2004. Damp Indoor Spaces and Health. Nation Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Kendrick, Bryce. 2000. The Fifth Kingdom, 3rd Edition. Focus Text, Newburyport, MA.

Kiester, Edwin, Jr. 1990. A Curiosity Turned into the First Silver Bullet against Death. Smithsonian 21(8): 173–187.

Larone, Davise H. 2002. Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification, 4th Edition. AMS Press, Washington, DC.


Matossian, Mary K. 1989. Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Money, Nicholas P. 2002. Mr. Bloomfield’s Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Money, Nicholas P. 2004. Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Odds, Frank S. 2003. Coccidiomycosis: Flying Conidia and Severed Heads. Mycologist 17(1): 37–40.

Toutexis, Anastasia. 1988. Got That Stuffy, Run-Down Feeling? Time 131(23): 76.

Wasson, R. Gordon. 1969. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, NY.

WHO. 2009. WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Dampness and Mould. WHO, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chapter 26

Allen, Leslie. 2004. Will Tuvalu Disappear beneath the Sea? Smithsonian 35(5): 44–52.

Appenzeller, Tim. 2007. Big Thaw. National Geographic 211(6): 56–71.

Bennett, Bradley C. 1992. Plants and People of the Amazonian Rain Forests. BioScience 42(8): 599–607.

Carr, Thomas A., Heather L. Pedersen, and Sunder Ramaswamy. 1993. Rain Forest Entrepreneurs. Environment Sept.: 12–15, 33–37.

Collins, Williams, Robert Colman, James Haywood, Martin R. Manning, and Philip Mote. 2007. The Physical Science behind Climate Change. Scientific American 297(2): 64–73.

Doney, Scott C. 2006. The Dangers of Ocean Acidification. Scientific American 294(3): 58–65.

Epstein, Paul. 2000. Is Global Warming Harmful to Health? Scientific American 283(2): 50–57.

Geist, Helmut J., and Eric F. Lambin. 2002. Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation. BioScience 52(2): 143–150.

Gende, Scott M., and Thomas P. Quinn. 2006. The Fish and the Forest. Scientific American 295(2): 84–89.

Glick, Daniel. 2004. The Big Thaw. National Geographic 206(3): 12–33.

Grossman, Daniel. 2004. Spring Forward. Scientific American 290(1): 84–91.

Hammer, Joshua. 2007. Rain Forest Rebel. Smithsonian 37(12): 40–48.

Hansen, James. 2004. Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb. Scientific American 290(3): 68–77.


Jansson,Christer and Stan D. Wullschleger, Udaya C. Kalluri, and Gerald A. Tuskan. 2010. Phytosequestration: Carbon Biosequestration by Plants and the Prospects of Genetic En-gineering. BioScience 160(9): 685 – 696.

Jensen, Mari N. 2004. Climate Warming Shapes Up Species. BioScience 54(8): 722–729.

Kaiser, Jocelyn. 2003. An Intimate Knowledge of Trees. Science 300(5629): 566–567.

Keppler, Frank, and Thomas Rockmann. 2007. Methane, Plants and Climate Change. Scientific American 296(2): 52–57.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2009. Outlook: Extreme. National Geographic 215(4): 60–65.

Montaigne, Fen. 2004. No Room to Run. National Geographic 206(3): 34–55.

Morell, Virginia. 2004. Now What? National Geographic 206(3): 56–75.

Nash, J. Madeleine. 2007. Chronicling the Ice. Smithsonian 38(4): 66–74.

Pacala, Stephen W. 2006. A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check. Scientific American 295(3): 50–57.

Perkins, Sid. 2003. Spring Forward. Science News 163: 152–154.

Perkins, Sid. 2004. Dead Heat. Science News 155(1): 10–12.

Perkins, Sid. 2007. Not So Perma Frost. Science News 171(10): 154–157.

Plotkin, Mark. 1990. The Healing Forest: The Search for New Jungle Medicines. The Futurist 24(1): 9–14.

Plotkin, Mark, and Lisa Famolore, Editors. 1992. Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products. Island Press,Washington, DC.

Raloff, Janet. 2009. Climate Might Be Right for a Deal. Science News 176(12): 16–21.

Rosenzweig, Cynthia, and Daniel Hillel. 1993. Agriculture in a Greenhouse World. National Geographic Research and Exploration 9(2): 208–221.

Sanderson, Eric W., Malanding Jaiteh, Marc A. Levy, Kent H. Redford, Antoinette V. Sannebo, and Gillian Woolmer. 2002. The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild. BioScience 52(10): 891–904.

Sayre, Richard. 2010. Microalgae: The Potential for Carbon Capture. BioScience 60(9): 722 - 727

Schneider, David. 1997. The Rising Seas. Scientific American 276(3): 112–117.

Shanley, Patricia. 1999. To Market, to Market. Natural History 108(8): 44–51.

Shanley, Patricia, and Leda Luz. 2003. The Impacts of Forest Degradation on Medicinal Plant Use and Implications for Health Care in Eastern Amazonia. BioScience 53(6): 573–584.

Stokstad, Erik. On the Origin of Ecological Structure. Science 326(5949): 33–35

Wallace, Scott. 2007. Farming the Amazon. National Geographic 211(1): 40–71.Witze, Alexander. 2010. The Final Climate Frontiers. Science News 178 912): 24 – 29.

further reading - mcgraw-hill...

Documents