Plant biology

Rapid changes and significant progress have been made in the Agrobacterium field, such as genetically transforming plants for both basic research purposes and agricultural development.

In 2010 the global area of transgenic crops reached 148 million hectares, an 87-fold increase since 1996, making it the most rapidly adopted technology in the history of modern agriculture.

This book is an inclusive collection of topics on research on UVB for its impact on plants with a focus on its use as an emerging technology for crop growth and protection.

This book provides methods and clear protocols for the various technologies available to detect, characterize, and study Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a member of the genus Closterovirus, family Closteroviridae.

This volume provides readers with wide-ranging coverage of CRISPR systems and their applications in various plant species.

Molecular cloning and DNA-based analysis have become part of every molecular life science laboratory.

Soil salinity is destroying several hectares of arable land every minute.

The use of RNAi technology is essential for most plant science researchers.

This detailed volume collects protocols from scientists who are actively engaged in developing or using protoplast technology.

MicroRNAs constitute a particularly important class of small RNAs given their abundance, broad phylogenetic conservation and strong regulatory effects, with plant miRNAs uniquely divulging their ancient evolutionary origins and their strong post-transcriptional regulatory effects.

This title offers 62 chapters divided among three volumes covering the latest topics dealing with Doubled Haploid (DH) technology, as well as methods to produce DHs in different species through different in vivo and in vitro approaches.

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.

This deep dive into the wonderful world of insects teaches us to love the tiny, seemingly terrifying creatures all around us.

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles.

This detailed collection focuses on current methodologies for studying various crop diseases.

A completely up-to-date introduction to the most common group of bees in Britain.

This book looks at the interaction between plants and nanomaterials/nanocomposites, and their effects ecology, the food chain and human health.

This book looks at the interaction between plants and nanomaterials/nanocomposites, and their effects ecology, the food chain and human health.

This detailed collection focuses on current methodologies for studying various crop diseases.

This book collates the basic and advanced concepts of plant biotechnology and genomics along with the future trends.

Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups.

Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone that induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume.

This detailed book presents recent methodologies for the task of inspecting the genomic world of plants, extracting valuable information, and presenting it in a readable way.

In this book, overall plant and soil system are examined exclusively in terms of gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) exposure.

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration.

Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W.

With over 40,000 described species, spiders have adapted to nearly every terrestrial environment across the globe.

Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera.

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind-the power of bees as an amazing collective.

In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.

The issue of flooding has become a significant challenge on a global scale especially in rain-fed ecosystems, having soils with poor drainage.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted role of phytochemicals in contemporary drug discovery and biotechnology.

The issue of flooding has become a significant challenge on a global scale especially in rain-fed ecosystems, having soils with poor drainage.

Metal toxicity and deficiency are both common abiotic problems faced by plants.

This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on botany; genetic resources; genetic diversity analysis; classical genetics & traditional breeding; in vitro culture & genetic transformation; detailed information on molecular maps & mapping of economic genes and QTLs; whole genome sequencing of the nuclear genome and sequencing of chloroplast genome; and elucidation of functional genomics.

Nanobiotechnology Applications in Plant Protection: Volume 2 continues the important and timely discussion of nanotechnology applications in plant protection and pathology, filling a gap in the literature for nano applications in crop protection.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of papers on CRISPR/Cas genome editing in connection with agriculture, climate-smart crops, food security, translational research applications, bioinformatics analysis, practical applications in cereals, floriculture crops, engineering plants for abiotic stress resistance, the intellectual landscape, regulatory framework, and policy decisions.

This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in various neotropical ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their historical biogeographies and underlying diversification processes.

This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world's two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

The agricultural sector of medicinal (including plant stimulants) and aromatic plants is characterized by an enormous number and diversity of species.

Seaweeds (macroalgae) represent the most striking living components in the Antarctic's near-shore ecosystems, especially across the West Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent islands.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

This book presents the first comprehensive compilation of genome research on the Hevea brasiliensis rubber tree.

This new and significantly updated authored dictionary is a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts.

This book tells the story behind the first Spirodela genome sequencing project.