Botany and plant sciences

With nanotechnology, engineers use atoms to change the world.

This book provides authentic and comprehensive information on the concepts, methods, functional details and applications of nano-emulsions.

Aspects of Sponge Biology is the result of a symposium about sponge biology held in Albany, New York in May 1975.

This textbook presents the latest knowledge on various disciplines of forestry science presented in 39 chapters.

This edited book is focusing on the novel and innovative procedures in tissue culture for large scale production of plantation and horticulture crops.

This book offers a comprehensive perspective of herbal medicine phytochemistry and explores the application of plant extracts as bioactive compounds in disease prevention and treatment in modern or traditional medicine.

Identification of the Larger Fungi is ecologically biased in order to emphasize a rather neglected aspect of the higher fungi.

A complete guide to tomato cultivation from seed selection to harvest.

Genetics and Genomics of Populus provides an indepth description of the genetic and genomic tools and approaches for Populus, examines the biology that has been elucidated using genomics, and looks to the future of this unique model plant.

Poisonous plants are used in traditional medicine systems in various healing therapies.

The recent revolution in molecular biology has spread through every field of biology including systematics and evolution.

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This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

Ensure students achieve top exam marks, and can confidently progress to further study, with an academically rigorous yet accessible approach from Cambridge examiners.

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This volume provides technical insight on how genomics-oriented studies may be used to bring new understanding to established models of fungal development.

The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, and presents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines and Thailand.

As forests decline in temperate and tropical climates, highly-developed countries and those striving for greater economic and social benefits are beginning to utilize marginal forests of high-latitude and mountainous regions for resources to satisfy human needs.

This volume focuses on the family Euphorbiaceae.

2008 NOMINEEThe Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and culinary uses to cutting-edge laboratory techniques in modern research and plant conservation strategies, Natural Products from Plants

This book discusses indigenous practices and obstacles faced by farmers conducting shifting cultivation (jhum) in North-east India and suggests methods of soil fertility improvement through e.

In order to feed the world, global agriculture will have to double food production by 2050.

This book discusses how plant functional trait selection can help researchers to understand the plant-environment relationship, identify desirable traits, modulate plant resilience according to the changing climate, optimize resource use efficiency, and enhance genetic improvement.

Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now.

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation.

Globally stone fruits are emerging in the market due to the increased consumer's desire for health-promoting foods.

Dieses Bestimmungsbuch ermöglicht Urlaubern und Pflanzenfreunden eine einfache und schnelle Bestimmung der Wildpflanzen in Deutschland.

Orchids of South Africa is the first field guide to local orchids to be published in over 30 years, and presents the more than 450 orchid species found in the region, including Lesotho and Swaziland.

An illustrated natural history of British native trees, by a celebrated botanical artist and her forester brother-in-lawOur trees are among our greatest national treasures, and yet today many people have forgotten their names, their identifying features and the stories we used to tell about them.

This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species.

This book disseminates various long-term data and research results from university forests in Asia towards realizing adaptive forest management and conservation based on a comprehensive understanding of environmental changes and ecological responses.

This book illustrates that the stereotypical representations of Gregor Mendel and his work misrepresent his findings and their historical context.

The Illustrated Plant Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, featuring many superb colour illustrations to aid understanding.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who was crucial to the discovery of the double helix in DNA.

Part of a series of volumes on the flora of tropical East Africa, this text covers the Eriospermaceae family.

Auxin is an important signaling compound in plants and vital for plant development and growth.

This book highlights some of the most important biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant stress, together with the latest updates.

This book will appeal to an international audience as well as be irresistible to local readers.

The new edition of Seeds contains new information on many topics discussed in the first edition, such as fruit/seed heteromorphism, breaking of physical dormancy and effects of inbreeding depression on germination.

Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups.

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Considerable advances have been made in our understanding of the eukaryotic cell cycle at the molecular level over the past two decades or so, particularly in yeast and in animal systems.

The book explores the available omics resources, the integration of multi-omics data, and systems biology methods, focusing on their applications in cereals breeding and research.

Advances in Botanical Research

During recent decades, tremendous progress and innovations have been made in rice science with the goal of increasing production to meet the world's growing demands.

The Caucasus MRW (online and print) Volume will cover this European Macroregion.

Earth's four desert biomes - hot, semiarid, coastal, and cold - each have their own set of challenges for the living things within them.