Plant biology

Over the course of evolution most plants have acquired the ability to defend themselves against most groups of pathogens, including the viruses.

The plant hormone auxin plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of plants.

Human activities are affecting the global environment in myriad ways, with numerous direct and indirect effects on ecosystems.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

This book summarizes the latest information and the status quo of radish genome studies to stimulate innovations and improvements in breeding techniques and to promote further advances in the field.

Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future.

This book catalogues the multi-scale impact of agronomy and economy on Cardamom, known as the "e;Queen"e; of spices.

Dieses Buch erläutert die neusten Technologien im Bereich Genmanipulation, Gentherapie und Klonierungen, insbesondere auch beim Menschen, die in den kommenden Jahren zunehmend in der Praxis eingesetzt werden könnten.

White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology as it is also known, refers to the use of living cells and/or their enzymes to create industrial products that are more easily degradable, require less energy, create less waste during production and sometimes perform better than products created using traditional chemical processes.

Rice has been chosen as the model cereal for functional genomics by the international scientific community not only because it is a major global food crop but also because of its small genome, the ease with which it can be transformed, its well understood genetics with detailed genome physical maps and dense molecular markers, and the existence of great similarities in gene sequence, gene structure, gene order and gene function among all the cereals and grasses.

This book is the fifth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

This book presents advanced ecological techniques for crop cultivation and the chapters are arranged into four sections, namely general aspects, weeds, fungi, worms and microbes.

This book presents various aspects of agroforestry research and development, as well as the latest trends in degraded landscape management.

The Handbook identifies all aspects of Regulatory Plant Biosecurity and discusses them from the standpoint of preventing the international movement of plant pests, diseases and weeds that negatively impact production agriculture, natural plant-resources and agricultural commerce.

In many parts of the world, soil and water are slightly to moderately contaminated with metals and metalloids such as Cd, Cu, Zn, Ni, Co, Cr, Pb, Si, B and As.

The importance of haploids is well known to geneticists and plant breeders.

The unique responses of plants to combined stresses have been observed at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels.

This volume reviews our current knowledge and novel research areas on Pochonia chlamydosporia, a cosmopolitan fungus occurring in soils as a saprophyte yet capable of colonizing the rhizosphere of crops as an endophyte and behaving as a parasite of eggs of plant-parasitic nematodes.

In response to low iron availability in the environment most microorganisms synthesize iron chelators, called siderophores.

This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions.

More than 270 scientists from 33 countries attended the 6th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria in College Park, Maryland, June 2-7, 1985.

This is the first comprehensive listing of Amazon fruits from an ethnobotanical perspective.

The inflorescence of the monoecious maize plant is unique among the Gramineae in the sharp separation of the male and female structures.

This book is first of its kind exclusively dedicated to plant polyphenol oxidases (PPOs), highlighting their importance in the food processing industry.

This book explores the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of fungi.

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.

Now in its second edition, this atlas serves as an easy-to-use diagnostic guide for the analysis of the human karyotype.

Plant phenotyping is the thorough assessment of plant traits such as growth, development, adaptation, yield, quality, tolerance, resistance, architecture, and the basic measurement of individual quantitative parameters that form the basis for understanding of traits.

The major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in a real and interesting way based on the most recent historical research and analysis of authentic sources.

There is an urgent need to expand our knowledge of both the nature of the toxigenic fungi that are widespread on economically-important plants and the effect of their toxic secondary metabolites on human health.

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

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

This book provides exhaustive information on several recent technologies that are employed for sugarcane improvement through biotechnology and will be of great interest to plant scientists, biotechnologists, molecular biologists and breeders who work on sugarcane crop.

Trees that are indispensably supportive to human life pose a formidable challenge to breed them to suit to human needs.

This is the first book on the genome of Salvia miltiorrhiza, summarizing the research advances in the molecular mapping, whole genome sequencing, chloroplast and mitochondria genomes, epigenetics, transcriptomics and functional genomics of this emerging model plant with great economic and medicinal value.

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 describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot.

This book analyses the mass production and application of biological control products for biotic and abiotic factors affecting agricultural production.

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) - the conversion of molecular nitrogen into ammonia - is one of the most important reactions in ecology and agriculture.

This book aims to describe the role of silicon in the environment from the biogeochemical cycle of terrestrial ecosystems, uptake to cellular and tissue bioaccumulation and its effects in mitigating abiotic and biotic stresses.

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

Genome sequencing has become a basic tool of plant and animal breeding.

Advances in genome-scale DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic research on ancient organisms, extinct species, and past environments.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the phytosociological information currently available in Morocco - a country famous for its floristic and landscape diversity.

This book highlights modern methods and strategies to improve cereal crops in the era of climate change, presenting the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing.