Plant biology

Humans have long been fascinated by ants.

Under continual attack from both microbial pathogens and multicellular parasites, insects must cope with immune challenges every day of their lives.

Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world.

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.

Under continual attack from both microbial pathogens and multicellular parasites, insects must cope with immune challenges every day of their lives.

Humans have long been fascinated by ants.

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring insect diversity in order to develop effective conservation strategies.

Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction, from parental care to mate choice and cooperation.

Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures.

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range of approaches and scales.

Pulses have played a major role in human diet and are considered a rich source of proteins.

This book on lupin genomics primarily focuses on the narrow-leafed lupin (NLL), and details the genomic resources that have been developed and how they are currently being used to help advance both fundamental and applied research on NLL in areas ranging from its domestication to plant-microbe interactions and syntenic relationships between NLL and other legume crops.

Nanotechnology is considered as one of the emerging fields of science.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

Insects display a staggering diversity of mating and social behaviours.

Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society.

Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society.

This volume is an account of the scientific and social responses made to the discovery of an invasive forest insect -- the emerald ash borer or EAB (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888) -- in North America, that was formally announced in July 2002.

For many agricultural crops, bees play a vital role as pollinators, and this book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture, and the environment.

Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery.

Insects and fungi have a shared history of association in common habitats where together they endure similar environmental conditions, but only recently have mycologists and entomologists recognized and had the techniques to study the intricacies of some of the associations.

More than 2600 species of tiger beetles are found all over the world.

On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.

On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.

One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature.

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence.

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This second volume on the topic will be extremely useful for the researchers and postgraduate students working on vegetable crops with a special focus on climate change.

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

This edited work presents a multi-faceted view on the causes and consequences of disturbance in ecosystems.

This book presents recent research work on Biosaline Agriculture presented during First International Forum on Biosaline Agriculture in Laayoune, Morocco from May 3rd to May 4th 2019.

This book covers all aspects related to climate change and agriculture.

This book provides detailed information on methodologies used in biological, serological and nucleic acid based assays for the detection, diagnosis and management of plant viruses.

Phytohormones are known to affect the growth and development of plant directly as well as indirectly.

This book is the first Indian publication on these branches of agricultural/biological sciences.

Plants provide a source of survival for all life on this planet.

This book provides an overview of current knowledge, ideas and trends in the field of induced acclimation of plants to environmental challenges.

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.

Sorghum is the most important cereal crop grown in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Africa, Asia, Australia and Americas for food, feed, fodder and fuel.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on plant responses in hyperarid regions of Egypt, China, Mexico, and Pakistan.

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

Carbon stabilization involves to capturing carbon from the atmosphere and fix it in the forms soil organic carbon stock for a long period of time, it will be present to escape as a greenhouse gas in the form of carbon dioxide.

The increasing human population and the associated activities have negatively influenced the ecosystems and life on earth.

This book is a unique overview of insights on the genetic basis of anti-diabetic activity, chemistry, physiology, biotechnology, mode-of-action, as well as cellular mechanisms of anti-diabetic secondary metabolites from medicinal plants.

This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food.

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.

Ascorbic acid (AsA), vitamin C, is one of the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants and animals.

The abiotic stresses like drought, temperature, cold, salinity, heavy metals etc.

The first edition of this book, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, was widely appreciated as the first of its kind on this topic and has been listed as a reference work in several agricultural universities' curricula.

This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga's geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.