Plant biology

This book is a collection of information about applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing in plants.

Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically encoded, active process which results in the death of individual cells, tissues, or whole organs.

Cyanobacterial symbioses are no longer regarded as mere oddities but as important components of the biosphere, occurring both in terrestrial and aquatic habitats worldwide.

Plants are composed of 17 essential and at least 5 beneficial elements, and these must be taken up as metal or nutrient ions to allow for growth and cell division.

Successful reproduction is the basis not only for the stability of the species in their natural habitat but also for productivity of our crop plants.

This book provides an overview on plant innate immunity triggered by peptide elicitors.

This volume looks at the latest techniques used by researchers to help them understand the biology of various cellular processes and agronomic traits, and come up with better strategies to improve legume crops.

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.

Plants, being sessile and autotrophic in nature, must cope with challenging environmental aberrations and therefore have evolved various responsive or defensive mechanisms including stress sensing mechanisms, antioxidant system, signaling pathways, secondary metabolites biosynthesis, and other defensive pathways among which accumulation of osmolytes or osmo-protectants is an important phenomenon.

The intended audience of this textbook are plant and animal breeders, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in biological and agricultural science majors.

Natural forests with thousands of years of ecological continuity are unrivalled as the treasure store of terrestrial biodiversity on Earth.

The study of water stress is one of the most interesting subjects in.

The Monograph deals with the conception, planning, implementation, results and conclusions of the International Witches' Broom Project (IWBP), which was set up in 1985 with the aim of producing an economic management system for witches' broom disease of cocoa.

Plants collaborate with many micro-organisms in the rhizosphere to form mutualistic associations.

This updated and much revised third edition of Seeds: Physiology of Development, Germination and Dormancy provides a thorough overview of seed biology and incorporates much of the progress that has been made during the past fifteen years.

This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their application in crop breeding.

The evolution of viruses has been a topic of intense investigation and theoretical development over the past several decades.

This book presents field studies on crop production in developing countries such as Vietnam, Kenya, Namibia, Colombia, Afghanistan and Sudan.

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

Secretions and emissions in biological systems play important signaling roles within the organism but also in its communications with the surrounding environment.

From the point of view of individual consumer there are too many scientific papers being produced and published every year, too many to be looked up in the tremendous and steadi Iy increasing number and volume of scientific periodicals and proceedings from allover the world.

This book focuses on the plant cytoskeleton and its various cross-talks with other cellular components leading to its role in plant growth and development.

This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare.

The first edition of this book was the first to provide an integrated description of sap ascension from an anatomical and functional point of view.

Ferns are representative of genetic inheritance of great value as they include species of ancient vascular plants, which have direct connection with the evolution of plant life on Earth.

Two experienced and well-known research scientists, each from a vastly different part of the world, have combined their respective expertises to provide the reader with perhaps a unique text which presents an in-depth treatment of the various stress manifestations and an overall discussion of stress in cultivated plants.

Phytohormone research is a crucially important area of plant sciences.

Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past.

This book presents up-to-date information on various vector-less/direct (physical, chemical) and vector-mediated/indirect (Agrobacterium-mediated) plant transformation techniques.

The past two decades have seen rapid advances in the technology used to produce pot plants.

This handbook is intended as an introductory guide to students at all levels on the principles and practice of plant growth analysis.

Thisbook is the first of its kind to highlight the positive impact of natural UVradiation on plants through unique adaptations in various metabolic pathways, andprovides an evolutionary sketch of the development of molecular mechanisms forprotecting plants from solar UV ever since their migration to terrestrialhabitats.

As the industrial revolution that has been based on by higher photosynthetic efficiencies and more utilization of fossil fuels nears its end [R.

This fully updated new edition explores new techniques for studying plant stress.

This edited book provides knowledge about hemicelluloses biorefinery approaching production life cycle, circular economy, and valorization by obtaining value-added bioproducts and bioenergy.

This reference book provides information on plant cytogenetics for students, instructors, and researchers.

Plant virus disease is a worldwide threat to agriculture.

This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and professors.

This book summarizes the latest research on sheepgrass, both in China and around the globe, as well as fundamental information on the topic.

This edited book is a comprehensive collection of information on host plant resistance to insects in major field crops.

This detailed book gathers hands-on techniques to characterize, identify, localize, profile, and determine genome functions in plants.

Providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on Omics applications in plant sciences field,"e;Plant Stress Tolerance"e; focuses on different approaches towards plant stress tolerance including both biotic stresses and abiotic stresses.

This book provides a compact, up-to-date and detailed overview of the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula, a highly diverse part of Europe in the Mediterranean area.

This book describes the three gasotransmitters nitric oxide (NO), hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and carbon monoxide (CO) and their function as intracellular signalling molecules in plants.

The monograph entitled "e;Crop responses to Global warming"e; describes the normal historical shifts in the earth's atmospheric temperature and weighs the evidence concerning anthropogenic induced changes in the level of temperature.

Polyphagous pests are primarily agricultural pests that feed on economically important agricultural and horticultural crops of wide taxonomic diversity across the globe.