Plant biology

Mitochondria are the product of a long evolutionary history.

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

This book provides essential information on Mexico's Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history.

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago.

Molecular biology, particularly molecular genetics, is among the newest and most powerful approach in modern photosynthesis research.

How do ant colonies get anything done, when no one is in charge?

This work will be volume 124 in the Flora Neotropica Monograph book Series, Lawrence M.

This book provides insights into the genetics and the latest advances in genomics research on the common bean, offering a timely overview of topics that are pertinent for future developments in legume genomics.

The molecular mechanisms which determine whether the cells of a multicellular organism will live or commit suicide have become a popular field of research in biology during the last decade.

Microbial Nanobionics: Volume 1, State of the Art, discusses a wide range of microbial systems and their utilization in biogenic synthesis of metallic nanoparticles.

This book summarizes the latest research results on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants, particularly in many abiotic stresses, and their regulation.

This book introduces readers to both seed treatment and seedling pretreatments, taking into account various factors such as plant age, growing conditions and climate.

Widely known as the 'tree of life', coconut (Cocos nucifera L.

This book presents the latest advances in rice genomics, genetics and breeding, with a special focus on their importance for rice biology and how they are breathing new life into traditional genetics.

Plant breeding has played a significant role in the development of human civilizations.

Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions.

Biological disease management tactics have emerged as potential alternative to chemical application for containing crop diseases.

New possibilities have been brought about by the stunning number of genomic sequences becoming available for photosynthetic organisms.

This comprehensive edited volume collects the most recent information with up-to-date citations, on the decrease in plant productivity under climatic changes and its link with global food security.

Investigations on various aspects of plant-pathogen interactions have the ultimate aim of providing information that may be useful for the development of effective crop disease management systems.

In the recent past, threats from climate change and unforeseeable environmental extremes to plant growth and productivity have consistently increased.

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Genetics and Improvement of Barley Malt Quality presents up-to-date developments in barley production and breeding.

Due to complex phytochemical components and associated beneficial properties, numerous medicinal and aromatic plants, in whole or parts, have been used for nutritional purposes or the treatment of various diseases and disorders in humans and animals.

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops.

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

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 book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India.

As per the reports of FAO, the human population will rise to 9 billion by the end of 2050 and 70% of more food must be produced over the next three decades to feed the additional population.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Rothamsted Millennium Conference "e;Interactions in the Root Environment - an Integrated Approach"e;.

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

Global industrial growth has resulted in numerous pollutants being introduced into the environment.

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide and destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually.

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.

Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all.

There are currently intense efforts devoted to understand plant respiration (from genes toecosystems) and its regulatory mechanisms; this is because respiratory CO2 productionrepresents a substantial carbon loss in crops and in natural ecosystems.

Photobiology - the science of light and life - begins with basic principles and the physics of light and continues with general photobiological research methods, such as generation of light, measurement of light, and action spectroscopy.

Achieving zero hunger and food security is a top priority in the United Nations Development Goals (UNDGs).

Life originated and evolved in water.

This book presents a compilation of case studies from different countries on achieving agricultural sustainability.

This is the first of two volumes on Gentianaceae.

This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; how these nutrients are absorbed, distributed, stored; what functions each mineral plays and the disorders that their excess or absence may cause.

The majority of the world's people depend research work should be carried out at the local and regional level by locally trained on plants for their livelihood since they grow them for food, fuel, timber, fodder and people.

In this book we bring together the most up-to-date information on developments, both basic and applied, that already have or are expected to impact the field of ornamental breeding.

Agricultural research is one of the most widespread forms of organized research in the world, in both developed and developing countries.

In plant cells, the plasma membrane is a highly elaborated structure that functions as the point of exchange with adjoining cells, cell walls and the external environment.

In the Netherlands the Institute for Soil Fertility Research plays a major role in soil biological, soil physical and plant nutritional research on the availability of nitrogen to crops.

Tree species are indispensable to support human life.