Plant biology

Insects, pests and weeds are responsible for substantial loss of crops and reduced food supplies, poorer quality of agricultural products, economic hardship for growers and processor.

This volume presents a compelling collection of state-of-the-art work in algorithmic computational biology, honoring the legacy of Professor Bernard M.

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny.

While the majority of flowering plant species are hermaphroditic, gender di- morphism, or the occurrence of two sexual morphs, has, nevertheless, evolved on repeated occasions.

This second edition provides a comprehensive review of various gene silencing methodologies and applications.

The nutritive endosperm of angiosperms is mankind s most important source of food, livestock feed and industrial raw material.

This book reviews developments in the molecular biology of plant-nematode interactions that have been driven by the application of genomics tools.

This textbook explores aspects of biology and ecophysiology of weeds, weed competition and interference in crops, phytosociological survey, methods of control and weed integrated management.

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism.

This book serves as an introduction to targeted genome editing, beginning with the background of this rapidly developing field and methods for generation of engineered nucleases.

Food security, crop protection, biodiversity, and human and environmental health are among the main needs and concerns of society.

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

Grain legumes play significant and diverse role in the farming systems and provide nutrition security to the largely vegetarian and relatively poorer people around the world.

Several nano-scale devices have emerged that are capable of analysing plant diseases, nutrient deficiencies and any other ailments that may affect food security in agro-ecosystems.

Highlighting the significance of the widespread distribution of the migratory habit throughout the insect world.

This book offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment.

Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by soil microbes.

This volume addresses recent developments in weed science.

This book aims to present the latest advances in the application of plant biotechnology and molecular biology in disease management.

In recent decades, repeated use of herbicides in the same field has imposed selection for resistance in species that were formerly susceptible.

From the 4th - 8th of September 2011, the Eucarpia Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section, held its 29th Meeting in the surroundings of Dublin Castle in Ireland.

Over the last few decades, various techniques have been developed to alter the properties of plants and animals.

The aim of this book is to give an overview of the most important aspects of physiological and biochemical basis for metal toxicity and tolerance in plants.

Plant Nanobionics, Volume 2 continues the important discussion of nanotechnology in plants, but focuses with a focus on biosynthesis and toxicity.

This two-volume set takes an in-depth look at stress signaling in plants from a uniquely genomic and proteomic perspective and offers a comprehensive treatise that covers all of the signaling pathways and mechanisms that have been researched so far.

This book highlights modern strategies and methods to improve oilseed crops in the era of climate change, presenting the latest advances in plant molecular breeding and genomics-driven breeding.

The discovery of the plant hormone ethylene was stunning-ethylene is a simple gas!

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The mystique of the rainforest has captured the imaginations of generations of young people, explorers, authors, and biologists.

 This book provides an up-to-date review and analysis of the carrot's nuclear and organellar genome structure and evolution.

G proteins are the key regulators for a wide range of cellular processes in animals and plants.

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade.

Face to the current global energy crisis, there is an urgent necessity of searching for alternatives to fossil fuels, and this book shows how timber is a promising resource for sustainable energy production.

This book results from a symposium on the theme of 'The Physiology and Biochemistry of Plant Productivity' which was held at the University of Calgary from July 14-18, 1980, and was jointly sponsored by the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists and the International Association of Plant Physiologists.

The book discusses the importance of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.

Plant RNA- and DNA-viruses have small genomes and with this limited coding capacity exhibit a strong dependency on host cellular processes and factors to complete their viral life cycle.

With the predicted increase of the human population and the subsequent need for larger food supplies, root health in crop plants could play a major role in providing sustainable highly productive crops that can cope with global climate changes.

Palynology is important in basic as well as in manifold applied sciences, as e.

This book offers a range of environmentally benign molecular mechanisms which are safer alternative strategies for effective insect pest management.

The problems engendered by the conflicting imperatives of development and ecology show no sign of ending, and every day more locations are added to the list of landscapes poisoned by human activity.

This book focuses on quinoa, providing background information on its history, summarizing recent genetic and genomic advances, and offering directions for future research.

This book draws the reader into the latest debate on fungal diversity and the concept of lichen symbiosis.

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Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches is the ninth volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series.

This book is the first comprehensive volume on the genetics and genomics of pineapple and provides an overview of the current state of pineapple research.