1st Edition

International Poisonous Plants Checklist An Evidence-Based Reference

By D. Jesse Wagstaff Copyright 2008
464 Pages
by CRC Press

464 Pages
by CRC Press

Knowledge of plant toxicity has always been important, but the information has not always been reliable. Now, increasing international trade is drawing attention to the inadequacy of regional information and highlighting the geographical fragmentation and notorious discrepancies of thinly documented information. The international community of safety regulators, toxicologists, and poison control... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION, AUTHOR, Listing from A to Z

Biography

D. Jesse Wagstaff

The book is, no doubt, a must-have reference for toxicologists, researchers, poison control centers, trade officials, physicians, and veterinarians.
--Robert J George, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 2010

"… an impressive and up-to-date encyclopedic compendium … . … should be considered as a core and mandatory addition to the professional and academic library Biological Sciences, Horticultural, and Pharmaceutical reference collections."
– James A. Cox in Midwest Book Review, 2008