Plant biology

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

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

This book is a compilation of writings focused on conventional and unconventional insect products.

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

The book addresses current public concern about the adverse effect of agrochemicals and their effect on the agro-ecosystem.

This book is compilation of studies related with the xenobiotics i.

This eye-opening book focuses on the development of techniques to mass-produce reduviid predators and important generalist predators, an endeavor that won't prove sufficient if the cost of commercialization is prohibitive.

The monograph entitled "e;Crop responses to Global warming"e; describes the normal historical shifts in the earth's atmospheric temperature and weighs the evidence concerning anthropogenic induced changes in the level of temperature.

This book focuses on light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, mainly for the commercial production of horticultural crops in plant factories and greenhouses with controlled environments, giving special attention to: 1) plant growth and development as affected by the light environment; and 2) business and technological opportunities and challenges with regard to LEDs.

This book summarizes the development of highly tolerant cultivars via plant breeding, genomics, and proteomic approaches.

Acarology - the study of mites and ticks, is a subdiscipline of Zoology, and is many times considered in the field of Entomology (the study of insects).

Bananas and plantains are among the most important food and cash crops in the world.

This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths.

This book focuses on the evolution of plant viruses, their molecular classification, epidemics and management, covering topics relating to evolutionary mechanisms, viral ecology and emergence, appropriate analysis methods, and the role of evolution in taxonomy.

This book focuses upon air pollution, types of air pollutants and their impact on plant physiological and biochemical systems.

This book is a compilation of recent global measures to conserve bio-resources and manage biotic and abiotic stresses.

This book provides biological and agricultural insights into snow mold, a fungal disease affecting land plants observed after the melting of snow.

With a focus on food safety, this book highlights theimportance of microbes in sustainable agriculture.

With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community.

This book deals with the various aspects viz.

La agroecología es la ciencia de encuentro de los sistemas biológicos y sociales en torno a la planificación, diseño y construcción de agroecosistemas sostenibles.

Esta obra presenta resultados de trabajos del grupo de investigación en Productos Naturales Vegetales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a nivel de pregrado y posgrado; explora la biodiversidad del país desde el punto de vista químico y biológico de las familias Myristicaceae, Rutaceae, Anonnaceae, Lauraceae, Piperaceae, entre otras.

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

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

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

It is an edited book with chapters written by multi-disciplinary specialists in their specific subject areas.

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

This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation.

Recent progress in biotechnology and genomics has expanded the plant breeders' horizon providing a molecular platform on the traditional plant breeding, which is now known as 'plant molecular breeding'.

This book provides a wealth of high-quality scientific information on the patterns and processes of vegetation change across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, concentrating on Southwestern China, mostly on the Yunnan region, and extending to the Yangtze River valley near the boundaries separating Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou.

This book focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the signal transduction pathway of ethylene, its interaction with other hormones and its roles in biological processes.

This book provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the molecular and cell biology of abscisic acid (ABA) metabolism, transport and signal transduction, covering our current understanding of ABA as well as research trends.

This volume continues the series of books on "e;Plant Pathology in the 21st Century"e;, and contains the papers given at the 10th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP 2013) held in Beijing, August 25-30, 2013 concerning seed health.

The functional characterization of a key enzyme in the phosphatidylinositol (PI) signaling pathway in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the focus of the research summarised in this thesis.

This book introduces plant metabolomics, an experimental approach that is important in both functional genomics and systems biology.

Plants are endowed with innate immune system, which acts as a surveillance system against possible attack by pathogens.

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings.

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

This book delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment.

Grasslands are among the largest ecosystems in the world and consequently are of great importance to mankind.

This book is part of the Plant Pathology in the 21st Century Series, started in the occasion of the IX International Congress of Plant Pathology, Torino, 2008.

The secretory activity of plants is a manifestation of the fundamental property of all living organisms: the ability to exchange substances and energy with the environment.

The title 'Phosphorus in Agriculture: 100 % Zero' is synonymous for make-or-break.

This book provides an overview of how boreal and temperate tree species have adapted their annual development cycle to the seasonally varying climatic conditions.

The last 25 years have seen significant advances in our understanding of the mycorrhizal fungi that colonize most of the world's plants, and the mycorrhizal networks that form and extend into the soil beyond plant roots.

In the era of current industrial and civil development, everyone is expressing a deep concern about the problem of environmental pollution.