Plant biology

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 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.

Nature has consistently provided human beings with bioactive compounds that can be used directly as drugs or indirectly as drug leads.

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

This book sheds new light on ways to alleviate biotic and abiotic stress in plants, using signaling molecules of plant growth promotory rhizobacteria.

The book discusses the complex interactions between plants and their associated microbial communities.

For the majority of the world's population, medicinal and aromatic plants are the most important source of life-saving drugs.

This book compiles various methodologies used in understanding interactions within the rhizosphere.

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

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

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

This book highlights different natural products that are derived from the plants and microbes that have shown potential as the lead compounds against infectious diseases and cancer.

Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations.