Plant biology

The economic significance of boron (B) in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry has been beyond dispute for several decades.

Ethylene is a simple gaseous plant hormone produced by higher plants, bacteria and fungi.

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

This volume comprises the proceedings of the First International Rehovot Conference on Modem Agriculture and the Environment, held at the Rehovot Campus of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2-6 October 1994.

In the last few decades there has been an ever-increasing component in most BSc Zoology degree courses of cell biology, physiology and genetics, for spectacular developments have taken place in these fields.

There is now a considerable literature on chemical ecology, which had its beginnings in the study of insect pheromones.

The highly structured eucaryotic cell with its complex division of biochemical labour requires a distinct protein complement in each cellular structure and compartment.

This volume is the final document of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress and comprises after reviewing the full texts of the Congress Lectures submitted by their authors.

Diazotrophic bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen to plant-useable form and this input of nitrogen through biological fixation is of great agronomic importance.

The 1997 European Conference on Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM) is the seventh in a biennial series of conferences devoted to the applications of molecular spectroscopy to biological molecules and related systems.

There is a growing need for appropriate management of aquatic plants in rivers and canals, lakes and reservoirs, and drainage channels and urban waterways.

In this study, an overview is presented of agricultural policies on manure and minerals, relating to the Nitrate Directive to remedy excessive surface- and groundwater contamination from intensive agricultural practices.

This is the second volume in the series Nutrients in Ecosystems.

Rice is the major staple food in Asia, and food security means rice security for most Asians.

Photobiology is an important area of biological research since a very large number of living processes are either dependent on or governed by light that we receive from the Sun.

Over the past decade, advances in molecular biology have provided the impetus for a resurgence of interest in plant metabolism.

From August 10 to August 15, 1998, an international Advanced Research Workshop-Lecture Course on The chloroplast: from Molecular Biology to Biotechnology was held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari-Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece.

Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes is a comprehensive review of grassland improvement in Mediterranean areas using legume species.

Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes.

Plant Molecular Biology Manual (Second Edition) is an entirely new manual containing both fundamental and recently described techniques in the area of plant molecular biology.

The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint- ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

Seeds provide more than half of the world's intake of dietary protein and energy and thus are of immense economic, cultural and nutritional importance.

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide.

It is a distressing truism that the human race during the last millennium has caused the exponential loss of plant genetic diversity throughout the world.

Mangroves are salt-adapted plants that are found along many of the world's tropical and sub-tropical coastlines.

This book - the first published on this topic in plants - presents the reader with an overview of recent research on nitric oxide (NO) in plants, which, in view of its empirical interest and its growth regulatory potential, is in the forefront of scientific endeavor in plant science.

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

Over forty years ago, concern was first focussed on cadmium contamination of soils, fertilisers and the food chain.

The book highlights the state of research in plant genetics and breeding and the results and applications of biotechnology procedures: i.

As well as examining successful biological control programmes this book analyses why the majority of attempts fail.

Plant-pathogen interactions is a rapidly developing area among the plant sciences.

The chapters in this section place the problems of vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions into the context which recur throughout the book.

The research that has culminated in the pUblication being introduced .

The Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes was held in Florence (Italy) on 10-14 September, 1990.

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.

This proceedings is based on a joint meeting of the two IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations) Working Parties, Somatic Cell Genetics (S2.

For the past twenty years I have worked as an applied plant virologist, attempting to identify and control virus diseases in field crops.

The idea for the present volume stems from the In many cases we had to decide ourselves what long time friendship between the series editor and changes had to be made in the manuscript.

This book is the third in a series of volumes on major tropical and sub-tropical crops.

The development of pesticide resistance in arthropod pests, plant pathogens and weeds can be viewed and studied from two contrasting perspectives.

Tropical climates, which occur between 23(deg)30'N and S latitude (Jacob 1988), encompass a wide variety of plant communities (Hartshorn 1983, 1988), many of which are diverse in their woody floras.

All biomass is derived from photosynthesis.

It is very clear nowadays that plants offer several opportunities for basic studies, e.