Plant biology

When I received an invitation to attend the International Symposium on Lethal Yellowing being organised by the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan (CICy), I was excited and a little nostalgic.

Taking readers out of the laboratory and into the humid tropical forests, this comprehensive volume explores the most recent advances occurring in tropical plant ecophysiology.

Each tree ring contains an image of the time when the ring formed, projected onto the ring's size, structure, and composition.

In nature, radiata pine is very localised and an obscure tree species despite the romantic character of much of its natural habitat.

Crop plants growing under field conditions are constantly exposed to various abiotic and biotic stress factors leading to decreased yield and quality of produce.

Growth, reproduction, and geographical distribution of plants are profoundly influenced by their physiological ecology: the interaction with the surrounding physical, chemical, and biological environments.

This book deals with the gasotransmitters signaling in redox reactions and homeostasis for the adaptation of plants to unfavorable abiotic stress environments.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding for the production of new crop varieties, under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors, to achieve sustainable agricultural production and enhanced food security.

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Plants as sessile organisms have evolved fascinating capacities to adapt to changes in their natural environment.

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Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce.

This book is an outcome of the keynote/lead papers presented by the experts from different disciplines in the Indian Ecological Society International Conference 2016 on "e;Natural Resource Management: Ecological Perspectives"e;, organized at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, India.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

Epigenetics encompasses all changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence.

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.

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.

Soil acidity is a major limitation to crop production in many parts of the world.

This book covers information on the economics; botany, taxonomy, and origin; germplasm resources; cytogenetics and nuclear DNA; genetic improvement efforts of scion cultivars; genetic and genomic improvement efforts of rootstocks; genetic and physical mapping; genomic resources; genome and epigenome; regulatory sequences; utility of whole-genome sequencing and gene editing in trait dissection; flowering and juvenility; cold hardiness and dormancy; fruit color development; fruit acidity and sugar content; metabolomics; biology and genomics of the microbiome; apple domestication; as well as other 'omics' opportunities and challenges for genetic improvement of the apple.

This authored book gives insight into the morphology, physiology, genetics, plant protection and biotechnology of three important arid legumes, viz.

The succulent species of the families of subclass Rosidae are presented by alphabet of families, genera, and species, with comprehensive listings of synonyms added at all levels.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the recent developments in cotton production and processing, including a number of genetic approaches, such as GM cotton for pest resistance, which have been hotly debated in recent decades.

This comprehensive volume presents indispensable and up-to-date information on viroids and viroid diseases.

This volume is the result of a Symposium, held in October, 1985, to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the De- partment of Plant Ecology of the University of Groningen.

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 volume will be the only existing single-authored book offering a science-based breeder's manual directed at breeding for water-limited environments.

The 12th International Symposium on Plant Lipids was held at the University of Toronto, Canada, from July 7th to 12th, 1996.

This edited book covers all aspects of omics approaches used for the varietal improvement of millets in changing climatic conditions.

Plant hormone research is the favorite topic of physiologists.

This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem.

This book presents research on the challenges and potential of fungal contribution in agriculture for food substantiality.

This book will appeal to an international audience as well as be irresistible to local readers.

Plants require essential nutrients (macronutrients and micronutrients) for normal functioning.

This book provides a compact, up-to-date and detailed overview of the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula, a highly diverse part of Europe in the Mediterranean area.

Plant mycobiome represents a diverse array of plant-associated communities of endophytic and epiphytic fungi.

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

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.

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Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250 million tonnes in India.

This updated and expanded edition explores key methodologies to study the fascinating phenomenon of how plants readjust their growth toward gravity.

Cancer is one of the leading death cause of human population increasingly seen in recent times.

This volume details protocols for the use of the biolistic DNA delivery method in different plant species.

Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 2: Alleviation of Soil Stress by PGPR and Mycorrhizal Fungi describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by PGPR and mycorrhizal fungi.

This book examines the application of soybean genome sequences to comparative, structural, and functional genomics.

This book presents research findings on newly discovered pests and diseases that may be impacted by climate change in the tropics; current management techniques including molecular diagnostics, integrated pest management (IPM), and agroecological approach; and recent technological advancements used as preventive and curative approaches to mitigate the effects of plant pests and diseases.

Nature has consistently provided human beings with bioactive compounds that can be used directly as drugs or indirectly as drug leads.

This Monograph explains the statistical theory behind the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collection and compares different methods for modelling and inventory design.

This book provides an account of the classical and recent trends in plant sciences, which have contributed for disease management strategies in plants for sustainable agriculture.