Botany and plant sciences

Ginger: The Genus Zingiber is the first comprehensive volume on ginger.

Due to the prohibitive cost of synthetic pesticides and the problems of environmental pollution caused by continuous use of these chemicals, there is a renewed interest in the use of botanicals for crop protection.

Spectroscopic Data of Steroid Glycosides serves as an essential reference guide containing spectroscopic, physical and biological activity data of over 3500 steroid glycosides, offering the structures and the data of the naturally occurring glycosides of steroids.

Wetland planting can bring back biodiversity, reduce the impact of drought and flood, improve water quality and conserve beauty in a mismanaged landscape.

Rapid change in environmental conditions is likely to override the adaptive efficiency of plants.

Abiotic stressors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, or high salinity, are causing huge crop losses worldwide.

The primary aim of the book entitled "e;Teaching biology - Photosynthetic Organisms"e; is to support practice-oriented teaching of biology, therefore it includes detailed descriptions of illustrated investigations and experiments alongside basic theoretical knowledge.

The genus Cordyceps and allied species, such as entomopathogenic fungi, mainly parasitize insects and other arthropods and have been known since ancient times.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in die Pflanzensoziologie" verfügbar.

This book provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the molecular and cell biology of abscisic acid (ABA) metabolism, transport and signal transduction, covering our current understanding of ABA as well as research trends.

Explores the molecular, biochemical, functional, structural, and developmental mechanisms of pH in plant growth.

Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years by a large population.

This remarkable new book is the first text dedicated to the topic of pharmacovigilance for herbal and traditional medicines.

Taste buds in your mouth tell your brain what flavor a food has.

This book is the 9th volume in the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World.

Rice is a widely consumed crop around the world that has tremendous importance and is cultivated almost everywhere except Antarctica.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation describing the botanical traits, genetic resources, whole genome sequencing, Mitochondrial genome, transcriptomes of different organs with developmental stages, transcription factors, delineating gene evolution of gene family in Bambusoideae, alternative splicing (AS) and polyadenylation, case studies for economically important traits such as internode length, shoot fast growing, flowering, ageing and stress-resistant genes and small RNAs-mediated gene regulation of moso bamboo flowering and other developmental stages.

Exam board: International BaccalaureateLevel: IB DiplomaSubject: BiologyFirst teaching: September 2014First exams: Summer 2016Aim for the best Internal Assessment grade with this year-round companion, full of advice and guidance from an experienced IB Diploma Biology teacher.

Applied Mathematics and Omics to Assess Crop Genetic Resources for Climate Change Adaptive Traits focuses on practical means and approaches to further the use of genetic resources for mitigating the effects of climate change and improving crop production.

This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants.

Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses is a comprehensive reference for anyone involved with the selection and maintenance of grasses used in sports and amenity areas in all areas.

With contributions from leading scientists in agricultural biology and young researchers, this book examines the ecological consequences that sometimes arise with various methods of increasing crop productivity.

Think you know everything about space?

Phytoplasma III is the last of three books in the series covering all the aspects of phytoplasma-associated diseases.

This volume provides methods and protocols on principle, production, molecular aspects, and sustainability of biofuel and biodiesel.

The fight against global hunger demands a fresh perspective.

This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth.

Seeds of Amazonian Plants is the first field guide to treat the extraordinary diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics.

RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners is a unique guide to plant binomials based on the bestselling RHS Latin for Gardeners.

This book covers the topic of biostimulation of crops using nanomaterials to increase crop production and quality improvement, accompanied by the reduction of environmental impact in the form of less use of pesticides and greater efficiency in the use of fertilizers and water.

Do your eyes send out light like headlights?

Carefully leveled text and eye-catching photos invite young readers to explore the sense of sight.

This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents.

A unique, concise, beautifully-illustrated guide to both identification and biology of common and widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore.

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The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests.

In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally.

Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them.

This volume is the last contribution of a series of With the present book, a further gap concern- studies concerned with the plant material of one ing leaf morphology and leaf venation, as well and the same area of Venezuelan Guiana.

A considerable change in climate at a global level will impact the vegetable cultivation and agriculture as a whole; subsequently affecting the world's food supply.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how?

Welcome to the arctic tundra!

Bioinformatics is a relatively new field of research.

These Proceedings contain the contributions of the participants of the Second International Symposium on Dendritic Cells that was held from the 1st to 25th of June 1992 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance.

This volume covers the orders Apiales (Asterids I) and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae; Asterids II).

Methods in Plant Cell Biology provides in two volumes a comprehensive collection of analytical methods essential for researchers and students in the plant sciences.

Advances in Botanical Research is a multi-volume publication bringing together reviews by recognized experts on subjects of importance to those involved in botanical research.