Plant biology

The book offers an integrated overview of plant-pathogen interactions.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This volume in the series is devoted to Africa, a continent that possesses a vast treasure of medicinal plants and has produced some exclusive materials for the world market.

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

This book outlines a new paradigm, "e;Agro-ecological Intensification of Crop Protection"e;, which reduces negative impacts on the environment and enhances the provision of ecosystem services.

This book comprehensively introduces stripe rust disease, its development and its integral control.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This book highlights some of the most important biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant stress, together with the latest updates.

This book addresses the crucial aspects of plant adaptation strategies in higher as well as lower plant groups.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

The book traces the roots of plant biotechnology from the basic sciences to current applications in the biological and agricultural sciences, industry, and medicine.

This fascinating title has been carefully organised to meet the long-felt needs of increasingly large number of those who deals with different aspects of Entomology.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This book offers step-by-step instruction on DNA cloning, defined as moving genes around plasmids, mutating genes, or mining new genes.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology and the effects of nanoparticles on agricultural systems, their interactions with plants as well as their potential applications as fertilizers and pesticides.

This book offers a comprehensive compilation of biotic and abiotic factors that affect lychee production and commercialization.

This book presents a detailed discussion on the direct interactions of plants and microorganisms in the rhizosphere environment.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems based on publications by Chinese scholars.

Natural bioactive compounds have become an integral part of plant-microbe interactions geared toward adaptation to environmental changes.

Powdery mildew disease is the fourth most widespread disease in cruciferous crops and a devastating effect, causing significant losses in terms of quality and quantity in rapeseed and mustard.

This book focuses on the morphology, exine ornamentation and the associated evolutionary trends of crabapple pollen and anatomical developmental patterns.

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

This book illustrates the importance and significance of bioinformatics in the field of agriculture.

Plant tissue culture (PTC) technology has gained unassailable success for its various commercial and research applications in plant sciences.

This book provides insights on innovative strategies to build resilient food systems in the wake of challenges posed by climate change.

In the industrial era, the most important potential threat to crop production is abiotic stress, including toxic metal/metalloid stress.

This book presents the state of the skill of understanding brassinosteroids (BRs) signaling plus crosstalk with phytohormone and their association in plant adaptation to abiotic stresses comprising physiological, biochemical, and molecular developments.

This book presents biotechnological advances and approaches to improving the nutritional value of agri-foods.

Bioactive compounds produced by natural sources, such as plants, microbes, endophytic fungi, etc.

As food producers, plants are constantly under attack by insects.

Conogethes is a group of moths distributed in Austral-Asian region from India to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

This book written by Professor Chi Yen of Sichuan Agricultural University in Chinese was published by China Agriculture Press (ISBN 978-7-109-22791-0).

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

This book is designed to popularize Quinoa cereal among both scientific and food industry.

This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing global climate.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of principles, conventional and molecular approaches used to develop improved varieties and hybrids of major crops in light of their origin, evolution, taxonomy, production and productivity and need by human civilization.

This book deals with the most emerging aspects of algal research with special reference to microalgae viz; diversity, mutations, genomics and metagenomics study, eco-physiology, culturing, microalgae for food and feed, biofuel production, harvesting of microalgae, separation, and purification of biochemicals, techno-economical assessment, microalgal biotechnology, algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

In this comprehensive book, plant biologists and environmental scientists present the latest information on different approaches to the remediation of inorganic pollutants.

Plants growing in the natural environment battle with a variety of biotic (pathogens infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, heat and cold stresses etc.

Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization.

This book discusses molecular approaches in plant as response to environmental factors, such as variations in temperature, water availability, salinity, and metal stress.

This book focuses on the effects of genotoxic agents causing oxidative stress in plants.

This book gives an overview of the diverse marine fauna and flora of Japan and includes practical guides for investigating the biology and ecology of marine organisms.

The book is a comprehensive compilation of applied knowledge for developing resistant varieties to all the major biotrophs, hemibiotrophs and necrotrophs pathogens of crucifers through the use of latest biotechnological approaches.

This book documents timely and systematically marvelous fossils (plants and sporopollen) related to the biggest mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic transition.

This book is a comprehensive account of recent advances in the endophytic research.

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

This book presents a comprehensive overview of plant stresses caused by salt, drought, extreme temperatures, oxygen and toxic compounds, which are responsible for huge losses in crop yields.

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.