Plant biology

Each of the twenty chapters in The Photochemistry of Carotenoids is written by leading experts in the area of carotenoid research and gives a comprehensive overview of a particular topic in the field.

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The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential.

Agronomic crops have provided food, beverages, fodder, fuel, medicine and industrial raw materials since the beginning of human civilization.

This book addresses all the major mechanisms by which endophytes are thought to impact plant growth and health.

Cotton, the most important natural fiber crop, has been improved by conventional breeding-largely through planned hybridization of different cotton genotypes, since the discovery of Mendelian genetics.

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions, provides an essential summary of an exciting decade of research on relationships between lipids and photosynthesis.

Ten years ago Polar Biology published the book, Weddell Sea Ecology, containing the European "e;Polarstern"e; study EPOS in the Weddell Sea and Peninsula waters 1988/89.

This book analyzes the right pathway to solve the controversial identifications of some Trichoderma species on the basis of sampling procedures, slide culture techniques, macroscopic and microscopic analysis, and molecular tools.

Genome sequencing has become a basic tool of plant and animal breeding.

This book highlights different natural products that are derived from the plants and microbes that have shown potential as the lead compounds against infectious diseases and cancer.

This book explores two Rubus species from South America.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

This book presents a synthesis of critical new information for the Melastomataceae, one of the ten richest families among flowering plants with over 5,800 species that has its diversity highly concentrated in tropical or subtropical areas.

This contributed book is based on the current status of biodiversity in India, issues and challenges faced by the authorities involved in conservation efforts, and the imperative role of various direct and indirect stakeholders in biodiversity conservation.

The earliest land-plants evolved around 450 million years ago from aquatic plants devoid of vascular systems.

This book presents a simple, straightforward discussion of the principles and processes involved in the production of grain yield by agronomic crops, and how these processes underlie and influence management decisions.

This book discusses many aspects of plant-nutrient-induced abiotic stress tolerance.

This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of the genetics and genomics of the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae plant family, which includes crops such as watermelon, melon, cucumber, summer and winter squashes, pumpkins, and gourds.

Widely known as the 'tree of life', coconut (Cocos nucifera L.

This detailed new edition combines a wide selection of experimental methods for plant cold acclimation, deacclimation, and cold memory, ranging from the whole plant level of ecology and breeding to molecular profiling and the detailed analysis of specific proteins, with many levels of investigated complexity in between.

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings.

The edited book covers all major and minor diseases in grain legumes (chickpea, pigeon pea, lentil, mung bean, common bean, groundnut, and soybean) and forages legumes (including Medicago, rice bean, and faba bean) and their control measures by using various breeding approaches.

This book provides in-depth information on clusterbean, its cultivation, genetic improvement, plant protection measures, management of abiotic stresses, molecular aspects etc.

Plants produce a vast number of bioactive compounds with different chemical scaffolds, which modulate a diverse range of molecular targets and are used as drugs for treating numerous diseases.

This book describes nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) functions in higher plants.

Root hairs, the tip-growing extensions of root epidermal cells, are a model system for answering many plant cell and developmental biology research questions.

This book covers all aspects of deficiency of essential elements and excess of toxic ones in crop plants.

This book on "e;Orchid Biology: Recent Trends & Challenges"e; reviews the latest strategies for the preservation and conservation of orchid diversity and orchid germplasm.

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In recent years, molecular biology has infiltrated into all branches of botany.

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food.

The Carpathian flora occurs not only in the Carpathian Mountains, but also in large lowlands extending towards the south, north and east and involves introduced and invading flora of more than 7,500 species.

This edited book presents the latest research on cucumber, its genetic resources and diversity, tissue culture and genetic transformation, mapping of economic genes and QTLs, whole genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and breeding strategies.

This book brings together recent advances in the area of abiotic stress tolerance in various vegetables, fruit crops, plantation crops and tuber crops.

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia.

Microorganisms, including those genetically modified (GMOs), are increasingly being released deliberately into the environment for different purposes.

This seventh volume describes 247 species of 9 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This book focuses on multiple plant stresses and the molecular basis of adaptation, addressing the molecular mechanism and adaptation for both abiotic and biotic stresses.

This authoritative textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of evolutionary genomics.

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This is the second volume since the reintroduction of the Recent Advances in Phytochemistry (RAP) series, an annual journal supported by the Phytochemical Society of North America.

This book is a part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series which was designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions and to add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems.