Plant biology

Bioinformatics is a relatively new field of research.

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Urbanization, industrialization, and unethical agricultural practices have considerably negative effects on the environment, flora, fauna, and the health and safety of humanity.

Mitochondria in plants, as in other eukaryotes, play an essential role in the cell as the major producers of ATP via oxidative phosphorylation.

This is the first book focusing on the chemoecology of insect eggs and egg deposition.

Plant breeders continue to make significant advances in developing high yield- ing, adaptable, disease-free crops.

This volume addresses recent developments in weed science.

Grassland farming in Europe was already established during the settlement of the rst farmers together with their domesticated animals after the last ice age.

Electrical Manipulation of Cells provides an authoritative and up-to-date review of the field, covering all the major techniques in a single source.

Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and global climate conditions have altered photosynthesis and plant respiration across both geologic and contemporary time scales.

Cellulase is a key enzyme of industrial interest and plays a crucial role in the hydrolysis of cellulose, a prime component of plant cell walls.

The book is designed to be a textbook for university students (MSc-PhD level) and a reference for researchers and practitioners.

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms.

Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide.

With an ever-increasing demand for more food supply, agricultural scientists will have to search for new ways and technologies to promote food production.

Genetic engineering and biotechnology along with conventional breeding have played an important role in developing superior cultivars by transferring economically important traits from distant, wild and even unrelated species to the cultivated varieties which otherwise could not have been possible with conventional breeding.

This book provides a comprehensive, updated syntheses of all the information available on Mar Chiquita, covering various aspects of the geography, geological history, biology and ecology of the site, as well as a detailed analysis of the current land-use patterns, environmental threats, and conservation issues.

Terricolous lichens, a habitat specialist group of lichens play a vital role in maintenance and ecological stability of soil crusts with reference to their physical stability, hydrology and growth of soil microflora.

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

Genetics and Genomics of Populus provides an indepth description of the genetic and genomic tools and approaches for Populus, examines the biology that has been elucidated using genomics, and looks to the future of this unique model plant.

The Illustrated Plant Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, featuring many superb colour illustrations to aid understanding.

This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time.

This latest volume in Wiley Blackwell s prestigious Annual Plant Reviews brings together articles that describe the biochemical, genetic, and ecological aspects of plant interactions with insect herbivores.

A marvelously illustrated guide to the world's mothsWith more than 160,000 named species, moths are a familiar sight to most of us, flickering around lights, pollinating wildflowers about meadows and gardens, and as unwelcome visitors to our woolens.

Climate changes, particularly warming trends, have been recorded around the globe.

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.

The accumulation of large amounts of contaminants occurs in the environment due to industrialization and various other anthropogenic activities.

The Times Best Gardening Books of 2022 Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select.

Maize is one of the world's highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture.

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism.

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms.

Population genomics has revolutionized several disciplines of biology, genetic resource conservation and management, and breeding of crop plants by providing key and novel insights into population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, ecology, evolution and adaptation, and facilitating molecular breeding with an unprecedented power and accuracy.

`The fundamental problem the world faces today, is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on the limited resources of the land.

Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms.

Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics.

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of DNA barcoding and molecular phylogeny, along with a number of case studies.

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence.

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine dung beetles.

This brief explores several adaptive agricultural practices from around the world to fulfill current and future agricultural demands for food security due to the challenges posed by climate change and growing global population.

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The past decade is probably unparalleled as a period of dynamic changes in the crop protection sciences-entomology, plant pathology, and weed science.

This book introduces the reader to synthetic or artificial seeds, which refer to alginate encapsulated somatic embryos, vegetative buds or any other micropropagules that can be used as seeds and converted into plantlets after propagating under in vitro or in vivo conditions.

This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination.

Phytohormones are very much involved in directing plant growth, in a coordinated fashion in association with metabolism that provides energy and the building blocks to develop the form that we recognize as plant.

In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents.