Botany and plant sciences

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Albert Einstein, the legendary scientist.

Hands-On Chemical Ecology: Simple Field and Laboratory Exercises, a premiere collection of practical exercises in chemical ecology, offers tools and strategies for understanding this young science.

Plants, being sessile and autotrophic in nature, must cope with challenging environmental aberrations and therefore have evolved various responsive or defensive mechanisms including stress sensing mechanisms, antioxidant system, signaling pathways, secondary metabolites biosynthesis, and other defensive pathways among which accumulation of osmolytes or osmo-protectants is an important phenomenon.

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.

Ließ Brechts zum Diktum gewordenes Versfragment «Gespräch über Bäume» die Naturlyrik zum fragwürdigen Genre werden, so rief es gleichwohl bald Widerspruch hervor, nicht nur in Paul Celans lyrischer Replik «Ein Blatt, baumlos» und den ebenfalls auf Brecht antwortenden Gedichten Erich Frieds und Günter Eichs, sondern auch in der engagierten ökokritischen Dichtung seit den 1970er Jahren.

Outraged people claimed that Darwin's theory had made humans the relatives of monkeys.

This book recounts the habits of many interesting and unusual exceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the advances in genetics and genomics research on rice.

This volume brings together a broad array of scientific expertise to focus on the characterization and utilization of cellulosic materials.

We live in a well-engineered universe.

Slow Transmissible Diseases of the Nervous System

Explore the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America!

The Viruses: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, Volume 2: Plant and Bacterial Viruses deals with the biochemistry, biology, and biophysics of plant viruses.

This book contains current knowledge and the most recent developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology, and potential uses.

Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs presents the current state of knowledge of the ecology of important elements of southern Australian sub-tidal reef flora and fauna, and the underlying ecological principles.

Sustainability Science and Technology: An Introduction explains the root causes of global failures in natural and human systems, as well as the most readily available technological solutions.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research.

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide and destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually.

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale.

This book discusses Mercury's distinguishing characteristics, its position in the solar system its composition and atmospheric conditions, its moons, and how scientists have learned about Mercury over time.

Originally published in 1979.

Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions.

Ideally a textbook should integrate with the lectures and labs in a science course.

Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate change.

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

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

Insect Pests of Potato: Biology and Management provides a comprehensive source of up-to-date scientific information on the biology and management of insects attacking potato crops, with an international and expert cast of contributors providing its contents.

This text presents a comprehensive description of the fundamental principles of plant lipid metabolism and then uses this base to examine current research in the field.

This Lively Text Sung To The Tune Of The Hokey Pokey Answers One Of Young Children's Many Questions About Their Bodies.

Methods in Plant Molecular Biology is a lab manual that introduces students to a diversity of molecular techniques needed for experiments with plant cells.

Quite possibly the first comprehensive text on galactomannans, Industrial Galactomannan Polysaccharides compiles information on their industrial uses in the form of gums including locust bean, guar, tara, fenugreek, cassia-tara, and Sesbania-bisipinasa varieties.

Mineral Nitrogen in the Plant-Soil System provides integrated accounts of the transformations and fate of mineral nitrogen in the plant-soil system.

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

Microbes are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and regulate many critical elemental and biogeochemical phenomena.

This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.

Structure and function of the components of the photosynthetic apparatus and the molecular biology of these components have become the dominant themes in advances in our understanding of the light reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis.

Wild flower identification may seem impossibly hard to those not familiar with them, but this brilliant new photographic guide aims to change that forever.

Plant-Based Functional Foods and Phytochemicals: From Traditional Knowledge to Present Innovation covers the importance of the therapeutic health benefits of phytochemicals derived from plants.

The only textbook that fully supports the Biology part of the Oxford AQA International GCSE Combined Sciences specification (9204), for first teaching from September 2016.

Agrios' Plant Pathology, Sixth Edition is the ultimate reference in the field.

Global climate change has created unprecedented challenges for human civilization due to its widespread adverse consequences, including a reduction in crop yield and threatening food security across the globe.

In this time of edited volumes when the list of individual contributors may reach double figures, it is appropriate to question the usefulness of a volume, with such a broad scope, by a single author.

A synthesis of concepts and examples of how physiological processes influence seaweed communities worldwide, authored by experts in the field.

This volume 'Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: Impacts and Remediation' is a comprehensive collection of important literature on agrochemical contamination.

Fish as Food, Volume IV: Processing: Part 2 focuses on the handling and processing of fish as food, particularly how aquatic resources become human food that is less perishable and more available at all times and at locations far removed from the catching areas.

This timely two-volume compendium, Sustainable Horticulture, addresses the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today.

After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms.