Botany and plant sciences

Never before has a holistic approach to sustainable agriculture and plant physiology been presented in one source.

Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants.

Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny and supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

Ethylene in Plant Biology, Second Edition provides a definitive survey of what is currently known about this structurally simplest of all plant growth regulators.

A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering.

Following the worldwide success of Dr.

This second volume of The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook provides the background and techniques for using this important organism in plant research.

Aimed primarily at advanced graduate students and professional biologists, this book explores the degree to which animal*b1plant interactions are determined by plant and animal variability.

Principles of Plant Disease Management is intended to provide a substantive treatment of plant disease management for graduate and undergraduate students in which theoretical and practical elements are combined.

This 33-chapter volume presents a critical examination of the importance of stable isotopes in understanding key plant metabolic processes.

Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology, Fourth Edition, is the updated version of an established and successful reference for plant scientists.

Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses, including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects of virus biology and control.

Plant Cell Biology is a semester long course for undergraduates and graduate students which integrates mathematics and physics, two years of chemistry, genetics, biochemistry and evolution disciplines.

Written by a recognized expert and based on his experience in teaching the subject to students with a variety of educational backgrounds, The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology is the only book to comprehensively explore the physiology of the grapevine as it occurs around the world.

Evaluation of Analytical Methods in Biological Systems

This book deals with various aspects of environmental contamination.

Population growth and increasing industrial development makes the efficient treatment of municipal waste water of vital concern.

Submicroscopic Studies of Soils

Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy : The Soil Orders

Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy: Concepts and Interactions

Soil Erosion

Trace Elements in Soils

Photosynthesis is an active area of research in which many exciting developments have taken place in the last few years.

Volumes 23 and 24 of this highly acclaimed series focus on methods used for the study of both ectomycorrhiza and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza.

Volume 34 continues the series' tradition of timely review and incisive analyses of key research in developmental biology.

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Woody plants such as trees have a significant economic and climatic influence on global economies and ecologies.

Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

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

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

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

Advances in Botanical Research

This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae.

Plant production in hydroponics and soilless culture is rapidly expanding throughout the world, raising a great interest in the scientific community.

Post harvest biology and technology of citrus fruits is gaining importance as the therapeutic value of citrus fruits is realized and supported by the increase in health awareness among the general public.

Plant Biotechnology And Plant Genetic Resources, which boasts a truly international list of contributors with a variety of expertise, thoroughly explores all the major contemporary concerns.

This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management, and strives to place them in an ecological framework.

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook.

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Volume 72 contains four outstanding reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences.

In Virus-Insect-Plant Interactions, the world's leading scientists discuss the latest breakthroughs in understanding the biological and ecological factors that define these complex transmission systems and how this knowledge might be used to our advantage in producing innovative, user and environmentally friendly approaches to controlling the spread of plant pathogens by insects.

Fluid and flow problems in porous media have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from varying disciplines, such as chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, geothermal physics and food science.

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems.

Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs.

Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection presents the intricate ways in which sperm compete to fertilize eggs and how this has prompted reinterpretations of breeding behavior.

Rice yields need to increase in order to keep pace with the growing population of Asia and to alleviate hunger and poverty.

Humans face the challenge of producing enough food to meet the demands imposed by economic, biological and agricultural factors: rising population; rising income; and an expectation of higher quality food and a more diverse diet; decreasing amount of land available for food production; lowering environmental impact of agricultural practices and preserving biodiversity.

This completely revised classic volume is an up-to-date synthesis of the intensive research devoted to woody plants.

Offering detailed protocols for those needing to construct a variety of maps and isolate genes, this unique book is intended to popularize the new techniques of genome analysis derived from the Human Genome Project.

The turn of the millennium from the twentieth to the twenty-first century provides an occasion to review our understanding of a biological process, biological nitrogen fixation, that is of prime importance for the continued survival of mankind.