Botany and plant sciences

The book provides data on all the species of the two genera Genera Brachystelma Sims and Ceropegia L.

This new volume, Health Benefits of Secondary Phytocompounds from Plant and Marine Sources, looks at a selection of important issues and research topics on phytochemicals in plant-based therapeutics, covering bioactive compounds from both plant and marine sources.

The control of plant gene expression at the transcriptional level is the main subject of this volume.

Many exciting discoveries in recent decades have contributed new knowledge to our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate various stages of plant growth and development.

This book explores the interaction between climate change phenomena and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC), which inspects the crucial role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in modifying the net ecosystem response towards the modified environment.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

This book provides up-to-date knowledge of the promising field of Nanobiotechnology with emphasis on the mitigation approaches to combat plant abiotic stress factors, including drought, salinity, waterlog, temperature extremes, mineral nutrients, and heavy metals.

This comprehensive review on neem is an excellent collation of observations and research efforts by botanists, taxonomists and medical practitioners and will be of interest to everyone with an interest involved in medicinal and aromatic plant research.

Regular consumption of plant-based protein foods instead of animal-based protein foods reduces the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and certain cancers.

The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists.

This natural world, so to speak, is the raw material of the spiritual.

The "e;Phytochemical Dictionary of the Leguminosae"e; is the first of a new type of reference source giving phytochemical records for all legumes (plants in the Pea family - Leguminosae or Fabaceae).

Part of a series on the flora of tropical East Africa, this work considers Proteaceae.

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor to quality and productivity of many ornamentals, horticultural and other economically important agriculture crops worldwide.

This reference book provides an overview of the active ingredients of selected plants present in beverages.

During recent years the subject of extreme environments and extremophiles has become a central topic in modern Biology.

Domesticated crops are the result of artificial selection for particular phenotypes or, in some cases, natural selection for an adaptive trait.

Plant Cell Biology, Second Edition: From Astronomy to Zoology connects the fundamentals of plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant growth and development, plant taxonomy, plant biochemistry, plant molecular biology, and plant cell biology.

Biochemistry and Physiology oj Plant Hormones is intended primarily as a textbook or major reference for a one-term intermediate-level or advanced course dealing with hormonal regulation of growth and development of seed plants for students majoring in biology, botany, and applied botany fields such as agronomy, forestry, and horticulture.

Cinnamon is the common name for the spice obtained from the dried inner bark of several species of the genus Cinnamomum in the Lauraceae family.

Plant Physiology: A Treatise, Volume VIB: Physiology of Development: The Hormones focuses on the history and status of the hormone concept in plant physiology.

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments.

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world.

A look into the phenomena of sex and reproduction in all organisms, taking an innovative, unified and comprehensive approach.

This book reviews how the release of the citrus genome facilitates the investigation of ancestral species, the study of their complex biological features, and the genetic basis of agronomic traits of paramount importance for their sustainable cultivation.

This book offers an exploration of how plants respond to the presence of cadmium, shedding light on both the physiological and molecular mechanismsIn an era of growing environmental concern, this edited book serves as an invaluable resource, shedding light on the intricate interplay between plants and cadmium, a menacing environmental pollutant.

With contributions from a broad range of leading professors and scientists, this volume focuses on new areas of processing technologies in foods and plants to help meet the increasing food demand of the rapidly growing populations of the world.

Managing today's lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task.

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

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced crop plant yield.

This book summarizes the latest research on sheepgrass, both in China and around the globe, as well as fundamental information on the topic.

A thorough update of Arnett's The Beetles of the United States, American Beetles, Volumes I and II cover the genera of beetles that occur in Alaska, Canada, and the contiguous United States.

Agroecological footprints are a unique and popular concept for sustainable food system.

The need for the development of techniques based on the characteristics of the viral proteins and genomic nucleic acids was realized in order to detect, identify, differentiate and quantify viruses in the infected plants/planting materials with or without symptoms of infection.

In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn't take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R.

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

This edited book covers the major aspects of plant growth promoting bacteria and mechanisms underlining the phenotype in rhizobacteria.

Drive achievement in the MYP and strengthen scientific confidence.

Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability.

Written by a group of experts affiliated with the prestigious Dictionary of Natural Products, this book provides a concise overview of the key structural types of natural products and their interrelationship.

This book deliberates on the concept, strategies, tools, and techniques of allele mining in cereal crops and its application potential in genome elucidation and improvement, including studying allele evolution, discovery of superior alleles, discerning new haplotypes, assessment of intra- and interspecific similarity, and studies of gene expression and gene prediction.

Progress in photosynthesis research is strongly dependent on instrumentation.

The definition of photomorphogenesis, is any change in form or function of an organism occurring in response to changes in the light environment.

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This book reviews all important aspects of plant genome editing to shed new light on these genome editing technologies together in crop improvement and sustainable agriculture.

This new volume features the studied anatomical details of different parts of 100 wild grass species and provides a comprehensive overview of existing knowledge.