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1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Forensic Plant Science ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; Author Biographies; Jane H. Bock, PhD; David O. Norris, PhD; Foreword by Tom A. Ranker; Foreword by Haskell M. Pitluck; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 -- Introduction to Forensic Plant Science; 1. INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS; 1.1 The Seed Plant Body; 1.2 The Seed Plant Cell; 1.2.1 A Unique Plant Constituent: Cellulose and the Cell Wall; 2. THE EARLY HISTORY OF PLANT SCIENCE; 2.1 Pharmacology and Toxicology of Plants; 3. PLANT POISONINGS; 3.1 Some Specific Poisons of Plant Origins; 3.1.1 Alkaloids; 3.1.1.1 COLCHICINE |
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3.1.1.2 POISON HEMLOCK3.1.1.3 THE TROPANE ALKALOIDS; 3.1.2 Other Alkaloids; 3.1.2.1 STRYCHNINE; 3.1.2.2 ACONITINE; 3.1.2.3 SOLANINE, A GLYCOALKALOID; 3.1.3 Glycosides; 3.1.3.1 DIGOXIN, A CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; 3.1.3.2 CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDES; 3.1.4 Toxic Plant Lectins; 3.1.5 Dicoumarol and Anticoagulants; 3.1.6 Mushroom Toxins; 4. ILLEGAL DRUGS OF PLANT ORIGINS; 5. TWENTIETH-CENTURY FORENSIC PLANT SCIENCE; 6. OUR INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PLANT SCIENCE; 2 -- Suitability of Forensic Plant Science Evidence for Courtroom Presentations; 1. THE CURRENT STATE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE IN THE USA |
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1.1 Public Perception Problems: The "Crime Scene Investigation Effect"1.2 Scientific Problems with Modern Forensic Science; 2. COURT DECISIONS CONCERNING PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND EXPERT OPINION; 2.1 What Criteria Determine Validity?; 2.2 Objectivity in Forensic Analyses Is of Paramount Importance; 2.3 Repeatability; 2.4 How Is the Forensic Community Responding?; 3. HOW DOES DAUBERT RELATE TO FORENSIC PLANT SCIENCE; 3 -- Sources for Forensic Plant Science Evidence; 1. PLANT ANATOMY; 2. PLANT TAXONOMY; 2.1 Binomial Nomenclature; 2.2 Collection Methods for Taxonomic Evidence |
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3. PLANT ECOLOGY4. GENETIC ANALYSES: USE OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID; 4.1 Nuclear DNA; 4.2 Extranuclear DNA; 4.3 Analysis of DNA as a Forensic Tool; 4.4 DNA Barcoding; 4.5 What Is the Future for Uses of Plant DNA; 4 -- Forensic Plant Anatomy; 1. SOME PLANT BASICS; 1.1 Types of Plants; 1.2 Flowering Plant Cell Types; 1.2.1 Tissue System 1: The Dermal System; 1.2.2 Tissue System 2: Parenchyma, Collenchyma, and Sclerenchyma3; 1.2.3 Tissue System 3: Vascular Tissue; 1.2.4 Inclusions; 1.3 Fruits and Seeds; 1.4 Wood; 2. THE HUMAN DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; 2.1 Overview of Human Digestion and the Digestive Tract |
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2.2 Experiments on Gastric Evacuation2.3 Common Food Plants; 3. PLANT CELLS AND TIME OF DEATH; 4. COLLECTION AND SAMPLING METHODS FOR DIGESTIVE TRACT MATERIALS; 4.1 Collection of Samples; 4.1.1 Gastric and Intestinal Material; 4.1.2 Collection of Vomitus or Fecal Matter; 5. PROCESSING OF FORENSIC SAMPLES USING PLANT ANATOMY; 5.1 Processing of Stomach or Intestinal Samples; 5.2 Preparation of Known Plants for Identification; 5.2.1 Developing a Reference Collection; 5.3 Identification and Documentation of Known Plants and GI Tract Contents; 5.4 Processing of a Fecal Sample |
| Summary |
"Today, forensic botany encompasses numerous subdisciplines of plant science: plant anatomy and dendrochronology, systematics, ecology, limnology and oceanography, statistics, palynology, and molecular biology. Forensic Plant Science presents chapters on plant science evidence, plant anatomy, plant taxonomic evidence, plant ecology, case studies for all of the above, as well as the educational pathways for the future of forensic plant science."--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 23, 2015) |
| Subject |
Forensic biology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Forensic biology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norris, David O., author.
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| ISBN |
9780128015810 |
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0128015810 |
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