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Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. Definitions have narrowed since then; current definitions exclude the fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants (hornworts, liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperms, and flowering plants). A definition based on genomes includes the Viridiplantae, along with the red algae and the glaucophytes, in the clade Archaeplastida. There are about 380,000 known species of plants, of which the majority, some 260,000, produce seeds. They range in size from single cells to the tallest trees. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen; the sugars they create supply the energy for most of Earth's ecosystems; other organisms, including animals, either consume plants directly or rely on organisms which do so. Grain, fruit, and vegetables are basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. People use plants for many purposes, such as building materials, ornaments, writing materials, and, in great variety, for medicines. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Stress in Plants : The Hidden Half
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The Western Woodlands of Ethiopia – A study of the woody vegetation and flora between the Ethiopian Highlands and the lowlands of the Nile Valley in the Sudan and South Sudan.
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Flora of the Southeastern United States (Weakley)
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Native Plants of Aotearoa
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The Life of Plants in a Changing Environment
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The Secret of Plants in the Environment
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Plant Heavy Metal Stress: Physiological and Biochemical adaptations
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Plant Stress Physiology: Physiological and Biochemical perspectives
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Flora Argentina: Flora vascular de la República Argentina
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The restless plant
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A catalogue of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria
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Plants for dry climates
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De voeding der planten
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A Utah Flora
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Nette Skelette
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Naturspaziergang am Wasser
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Mon premier livre des odeurs et des couleurs : dans mon jardin
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Herbier de prison
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88 verblüffende Pflanzen
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Essbare und giftige Wildpflanzen
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Steinbachs großer Pflanzenführer
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The Hamlyn guide to the seashore and shallow seas of Britain and Europe
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Atlas des plantes
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Die unglaubliche Reise der Pflanzen
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Guide de la mycosylviculture
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Les plantes
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Der neue Kosmos Tier- und Pflanzenführer
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Blumen Europas
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