Plant biology

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

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

This book explores the interactions between nanomaterials/nanoparticles and plants and unveils potential applications.

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

This edited book highlights the gravity and efficacy of next-generation breeding tools for the enhancement of stress-resilience in cereals, especially in the context of climate change, pests, diseases, and abiotic stresses.

This book compiles the relevant information related to genome editing tools and their roles in crop improvement.

This contributed volume aims at bringing together all the genetic engineering tools for managing various types of crop pests.

The edited book highlights various emerging Omics tools and techniques that are currently being used in the analysis of responses to different abiotic stress in agronomically important cereals and their applications in enhancing tolerance mechanism.

This edited book is focusing on the novel and innovative procedures in tissue culture for large scale production of plantation and horticulture crops.

This book review and rearrange the research data of Triticeae published over hundreds of years, applying a modern scientific approach.

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

This contributed book is based on the current status of biodiversity in India, issues and challenges faced by the authorities involved in conservation efforts, and the imperative role of various direct and indirect stakeholders in biodiversity conservation.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

This book is a collection of comprehensive reviewed chapters covering major physiological aspects, both production as well as biochemical aspects, of a plant under low temperature stress.

This book focuses on in vitro techniques and challenges of producing nutraceutical compounds  from plant cells.

The book presents a machine-generated literature review on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) from 114 selected papers published by Springer Nature in the last few years, which are then organized by the book editors with a human-written introduction to each chapter.

This book describes the process of immunomodulation and the plants which possess immunomodulation properties to boost the immune system.

The cadmium (Cd) contamination has raised increasingly global concern on food safety.

This edited book deals with plant genetic resources and their status, availability, and ecological niche in natural habitat.

This book covers the important diseases and pests of potato which are of global significance.

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

This book covers the use and dynamics of potassium fertilizers in agriculture.

This book presents the results of comprehensive research of an inadequately studied class of secondary plant metabolites: phytoecdysteroids, which are structural analogs of the hormones of molting and metamorphosis of arthropods.

Phytochemistry is the branch of science that deals with the study of plant-derived chemicals or compounds, which are also known as phytochemicals or plant-derived secondary metabolites.

Sustainable increase in agricultural production while keeping the environmental quality, agro-ecosystem function and biodiversity is a real challenge in current agricultural practices.

Agriculture is currently facing multi-faceted threats in the form of unpredictable weather variability, frequent droughts and scarcity of irrigation water, together with the degradation of soil resources and declining environmental health.

This eighth volume describes 272 species of 13 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all.

With advances in agro-technology, cucurbits are now being grown throughout the year.

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all.

This book discusses CRISPR/Cas- one of the most powerful tools available to scientists for genome editing.

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.

This eighth volume describes 272 species of 13 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This seventh volume describes 247 species of 9 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This sixth volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This fifth volume contains 253 species of medicinal plants from 25 families, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This fourth volume describes 256 species of medicinal plants from 5 families, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This third volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

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 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.

Plant secondary metabolites are plant-based natural products that display a variety of pharmacological effects.

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

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

This book on potassium in abiotic stress tolerance deals with the ongoing trend in increasing abiotic stresses and interlinked issues food security.

This book discusses the research progress on pathology, entomology, nematology, and resource management of wheat and barley crops.

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

This edited book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on the modern omics-based research.

The book is presenting a comprehensive information on fundamental, and applied knowledge of Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin.

This edited book elucidates the evolution of plant virus, genomic structure, diversity, plant-virus interaction, subcellular movement etc.