Plant biology

This book provides an overview on plant innate immunity triggered by peptide elicitors.

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

For almost 40 years, Australian researchers have been part of an international group of scientists who have studied graft-transmitted disorders of the grapevine.

Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide.

Adulteration and misidentification of herbal drugs can cause serious health problems to consumers.

Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human activities.

This edited book provides an overview of omics technologies and methods for integration across multiple omics layers used in the plant disease diagnosis and developing management strategies.

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all.

The domestication of grapes dates back five thousand years ago and has spread to nearly all continents.

This book provides an overview of antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes and their role in the mechanisms of signaling and cellular tolerance under stress in plant systems.

This book Introduces the extensive applications of metabolomics from all possible areas of research and development so that not only an undergraduate can understand the advancement of metabolomics, but an entrepreneur can harness the knowledge to address possible problems to make a perfect tool to address their research question.

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of plant physiology for undergraduate and graduate students.

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.

Atmospheric abudance of trace gases since the pre-industrial time has forced the earth's climate to change, threatening food security.

This edited book highlights the multifunctional role of the ubiquitous molecule, melatonin in crop plants.

This book explores the impact of climate change on agriculture and our future ability to produce the crops which are the foundation of the human diet.

This manual details the techniques involved in the study of plant microbe interactions (PMI).

Palaeobiogeography is a complex subject which processes information provided by both Biology and Earth Sciences.

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016.

In the post-genomic era, several plant species have been sequenced and massive genomic information is now available which contributed to expand the development of novel technical strategies for the study of additional levels of biological information of plant species.

In the industrial era, the most important potential threat to crop production is abiotic stress, including toxic metal/metalloid stress.

Population growth alone dictates that global food supplies must increase by over 50% in coming decades.

The interaction between the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans and oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is becoming an excellent model system for studying genetics of host-pathogen interactions.

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

The ecology of world vegetation is described in numer- all of the drafting and photographic work.

Megaplasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements in the size range of 100 kb and larger.

This book introduces ecology of tropical cloud forests in China, a high-altitudinal tropical forest.

This book offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art source reference for understanding the functions and mechanisms responsible for yield and quality determination under a range of conditions.

This book collects techniques to continue exploring post-genomic land plant biology though the wisdom and skills accumulated from work on the founding molecular biology models that can now guide research into other species, including crop plants.

Poisonous mushrooms have fascinated scientists and laypersons alike for thousands of years.

In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice.

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

The C4 pathway of photosynthesis was discovered and characterized, more than four decades ago.

This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales.

This book has a broad scope and provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date knowledge of the plant genus Baccharis.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts.

This book addresses various aspects of the current castor bean research, including genetics, biotechnology, comparative genomics, and more specific topics such as oil metabolism and the ricin toxin.

The Seventh International Symposium on the Structure and Function of Plant Lipids took place at the University of California, Davis, California July 27th to August 1st, 1986.

Maize is one of the world's highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

For the majority of the world's population, medicinal and aromatic plants are the most important source of life-saving drugs.

Grapevine is one of the major cultivated plant crops.

Plant secondary metabolism is an economically important source of fine chemicals, such as drugs, insecticides, dyes, flavours, and fragrances.

This textbook on the applied aspects of soil physics covers introduction to soil physical properties and processes, and their evaluation and management in relation to plant growth.

Under ongoing climate change, natural and cultivated habitats of major food crops are being continuously disturbed.

This book is a practical, compact guide for the identification of common tropical and subtropical ornamental plants by flower colour.