Plant biology

Microbial relationships with all life forms can be as free living, symbiotic or pathogenic.

This book uses five decades of map data, air photos, and medium to high-resolution satellite imagery to track the expansions of aquaculture and the loss of both estuarine and mangrove land covers in Ecuador.

This collection of papers represents some of those given at the International Congress for Plant Pathology held in Turin in 2008 in the session with the title "e;The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security"e;.

This book provides important insights into the operating principles of plants by highlighting the relationship between structure and function.

Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population.

It is important to include Tuber and Root Crops in the Handbook of Plant Breeding.

This book presents a holistic view of the complex and dynamic responses of plants to nanoparticles, the signal transduction mechanisms involved, and the regulation of gene expression.

This book delves into the fascinating world of fungal metabolites and their biotechnological potential for sustainable agriculture.

Bryophytes, which are important constituents of ecosystems globally and often dominate carbon and water dynamics at high latitudes and elevations, were also among the pioneers of terrestrial photosynthesis.

The Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae provides a review of this important family (commonly termed the mustard family, or Cruciferae).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book focusing on the bitter gourd genome is the first comprehensive compilation of knowledge on the botany, cytogenetical analysis, genetic resources and diversity, traditional breeding, tissue culture and genetic transformation, whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics in the Cucurbitaceae family.

This book on lupin genomics primarily focuses on the narrow-leafed lupin (NLL), and details the genomic resources that have been developed and how they are currently being used to help advance both fundamental and applied research on NLL in areas ranging from its domestication to plant-microbe interactions and syntenic relationships between NLL and other legume crops.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts.

Viruserkrankungen von Mensch und Tier, wie etwa Influenza, Masern, Aids oder Maul- und Klauenseuche, sind in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt und neue Forschungsergebnisse und Therapievorschläge zu diesen Krankheiten werden durch die Medien verbreitet und diskutiert.

It is my privilege to contribute the foreword for this unique volume entitled: "e;Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,"e; edited by S.

This book provides in-depth information on all key aspects of geminivirus biology, e.

Since 1984 and 1988, when meetings were held on the topic of primary and secondary metabolism of plant cell cultures, there has been a clear shift of the focus of ongoing research.

This second of two volumes on Plant Genome Diversity provides, in 20 chapters, insights into the structural evolution of plant genomes with all its variations.

Allelopathic studies may be defined in various aspects; weed against weed/crop and vice versa.

Cancer is one of the leading death cause of human population increasingly seen in recent times.

In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop.

Arsenic (As) is a widely distributed element in the environment having no known useful physiological function in plants or animals.

Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species.

The International Society of Root Research sponsored the Symposium "e;Root Demographics and Their Efficiencies in Sustainable Agriculture, GrassLands and Forest Ecosystems,"e; July 14-18, 1996, at the Madren Conference Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.

Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally.

Plants have developed very sophisticated mechanisms to combat pathogens and pestsusingtheleastamountofreservedorgeneratedenergypossible.

This book presents a broad perspective on saponins as important natural products with a key role in plant defense.

This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding.

The dependence of present farming on artificial input of "e;chemical fertilizers"e; has caused numerous ecological tribulations associated with global warming and soil contamination.

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.

We are facing global issues concerning environmental pollution and shortages of food, feed, phytomass (plant biomass) and natural resources, which will become more serious in the forthcoming decades.

The Fifth International Workshop on Seeds was held at the University of Reading, UK, from 10 to 15 September, 1995.

The halophytes are highly specialized plants, which have greater tolerance to salt.

This book is compilation of studies related with the xenobiotics i.

This atlas offers anatomical descriptions of 19 Dalbergia and 31 Diospyros species, most of them endemic to Madagascar.

Plant geographical description of the area, syntaxonomy, spatial patterns, floristic richness, structure of plant communities in relation to soil properties and herbivore influence were described for a mountain region that is difficult to access.

This book is the result of a symposium dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research in Yerseke, the Netherlands.

Readers will find in this book a comprehensive text on the intersection of genetic and agriculture, addressing the different levels at which DNA is studied for agricultural purposes.

This book examines the application of soybean genome sequences to comparative, structural, and functional genomics.

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

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.