Plant biology

High-quality seed is essential for healthy crops and greater agricultural productivity.

This book collects comprehensive information on taxonomy, morphology, distribution, wood anatomy, wood properties and uses.

This book provides essential information on the morphology, biology, phytochemistry, pharmaceutical prospects, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, and taxonomy of Paris (Melanthiaceae), a morphologically distinctive plant genus with great economic importance.

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

Increasing world population, unpredictable climate and various kind of biotic and abiotic stresses necessitate the sustainable increase in crop production through developing improved cultivars possessing enhanced genetic resilience against all odds.

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

As the largest scale chemical reaction, photosynthesis supplies all of the organic carbon and oxygen for life on Earth.

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.

Arsenic is likely the most talked-about metalloid in the modern world because of its toxic effects on both animal and plants.

This book will be of immense helpful to the students of plant biotechnology, Agricultural sciences, Microbiology of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities, colleges, and Research institutes.

This edited book volume aims to bringing out a comprehensive collection of latest information and developments on the management of biotic stresses by the use of rhizospheric microbes across the globe.

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

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

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Plant breeding has the potential to improve quality of life for millions of people, and to harmoniously link agriculture, societies and ecosystems.

This book covers the current research on the plant-based tropane alkaloids (TA) and TA-bearing plants.

Globally stone fruits are emerging in the market due to the increased consumer's desire for health-promoting foods.

Tea is an important non-alcoholic beverage plant of the world.

Surface bio-contamination has become a severe problem that contributes to outbreaks of community acquired and nosocomial infections through contiguous fomite transmission of diseases.

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

Plant biotechnology has now become a key tool in improving crop productivity and enhancing commercial value of plant products.

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

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

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

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor in the context of the quality and productivity of many ornamental, horticultural and other economically important agricultural crops worldwide.

This new edition explores innovative approaches and keystone methodologies reflecting the recent advances in the field of plant cell division that have enabled us to study this fascinating process in a quantitative manner, at high resolution both in space and time using cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology.

This volume provides protocols and methods on techniques to study plant gametogenesis.

This volume details protocols for the use of the biolistic DNA delivery method in different plant species.

This book provides detailed protocols for research in plant photomorphogenesis.

This second edition volume is a companion volume to the previous edition and looks at new findings on novel bioactive chemicals and cognate targets, as well as the use of synthetic small molecules and a variety of tools to understand these processes.

This volume explores the latest methods used by researchers to study the detection, characterization, and various aspects of viroids.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with a look at the latest techniques in plant epigenetics and epigenomic research.

This detailed volume explores the development of technologies and protocols that are currently being used to understand the nature and activities of the plant cytoskeleton.

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In Flower Development: Methods and Protocols, researchers in the field detail protocols for experimental approaches that are currently used to study the formation of flowers, from genetic methods and phenotypic analyses, to genome-wide experiments, modeling, and system-wide approaches.

This detailed collection explores genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which have revolutionized the investigation of complex traits over the past decade and have unveiled numerous useful genotype-phenotype associations in plants.

This updated and expanded edition explores key methodologies to study the fascinating phenomenon of how plants readjust their growth toward gravity.

This detailed volume provides a collection of protocols for the study of miRNA functions in plants.

This book collects techniques to continue exploring post-genomic land plant biology though the wisdom and skills accumulated from work on the founding molecular biology models that can now guide research into other species, including crop plants.

Transposable elements have played a major role in shaping plant genome structure and gene expression.

Plant-Pathogen Interactions: Methods and Protocols provides key methods, approaches, and strategies to dissect the plant defense response.

Arabidopsis Protocols, Third Edition compiles some of the most recent methodologies developed to exploit the Arabidopsis genome.

Plants come in myriads of shapes and colors, and the beauty of plants has fascinated mankind for thousands of years.

A DNA barcode in its simplest definition is one or more short gene sequences taken from a standardized portion of the genome that is used to identify species through reference to DNA sequence libraries or databases.

After the generation of genome sequence data from a wide variety of plants, databases are filled with sequence information of genes with no known biological function, and while bioinformatics tools can help analyze genome sequences and predict gene structures, experimental approaches to discover gene functions need to be widely implemented.

Phytoplasmas are a group of bacteria that are capable of multiplying and causing severe diseases in a wide range of plant species and are transported between plants by insect vectors in which the bacteria can also multiply.

This volume focuses on various approaches to studying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), including techniques for finding lncRNAs, localization, and observing their functions.

Over the course of evolution, fungi have adapted to occupy specific niches, from symbiotically inhabiting the flora of the intestinal tract of mammals to saprophytic growth on leaf litter resting on the forest floor.