Botany and plant sciences

Photosynthesis is one of the most important biological phenomena on earth.

Rapid changes and significant progress have been made in the Agrobacterium field, such as genetically transforming plants for both basic research purposes and agricultural development.

Recombinant Proteins from Plants is one of the most exciting and fastest developing areas in biology.

This volume describes up-to-date techniques for improved production of secondary metabolites of economic interest using field and laboratory methods.

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Cotton is the most important textile and cash crop and is widely cultivated in more than 70 countries, including the United States, China, and India.

Marine systems face a multitude of anthropogenic stressors such as climate change, recreational and commercial fishing, aquaculture practices, pollution, and coastal urbanization.

Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols: Second Edition is a compilation of robust, reproducible techniques for the conservation of a wide range of biological materials.

Plant Chemical Genomics: Methods and Protocols , expert researchers in the field detail many of the techniques used for identification of bioactive compounds from a large selection of fields in plant biology including plant pathogenesis, immune responses, small RNA processing, endomembrane trafficking, lipids, plant hormone signaling and cell wall.

Molecular cloning and DNA-based analysis have become part of every molecular life science laboratory.

This book assembles experimental and bioinformatics protocols for the design and experimental testing of synthetic promoters.

Understanding seed-related processes is of major social, environmental, and economic concern.

Plasmodesmata: Methods and Protocols provides a unique compendium of currently applied methods to explore plasmodesmata (PD).

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Chloroplasts are essential for the survival and flourishing of life on Earth.

Recombinant Proteins from Plants is one of the most exciting and fastest developing areas in biology.

Amphibians of Ecuador: Craugastoridae.

Plant genomics is a growing and constantly evolving field of study, one which has gained much ground in past years through the development of advanced research and data management tools.

A DNA barcode in its simplest definition is one or more short gene sequences taken from a standardized portion of the genome that is used to identify species through reference to DNA sequence libraries or databases.

Soil salinity is destroying several hectares of arable land every minute.

This volume covers broad aspects of cell expansion in three different cell types: root hairs, pollen tubes, and hypocothyl cells.

The use of Arabidopsis in genetics and biology laboratories can be traced back to the beginning of the century, when the small size of this plant species, its short generation time, and the thousands of seeds produced by each plant attracted the interest of geneticists.

Molecular cloning and DNA-based analysis have become part of every molecular life science laboratory.

'Natural Compounds: Plant Sources, Structure and Properties' details the properties of over 7,500 chemical compounds of pharmacological interest found in plants.

The use of RNAi technology is essential for most plant science researchers.

This book is the second of four volumes, which are comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative works invaluable to biologists, conservationists, and others.

The discovery of DNA as the genetic material brought great hope to scientists all over the world.

The aim of Circadian Rhythms is to provide a resource that can be adopted by several types of users: those who are new to circadian biology, those who are already active in the field but are interested in learning new techniques and researchers who are considering moving to a new a model system or undertaking comparative studies and would like to consult protocols applied to different organisms before starting the study of new species.

This book provides a series of comprehensive summaries highlighting the emerging achievements in the fields of plant high throughput phenotyping that leads to constructing functional phenomics, one of the essential components of plant functional genomics.

This volume describes different up-to-date methodological approaches, ranging from physiological assays to imaging and molecular techniques, to study a wide variety of plant responses to environmental cues.

With a focus on the unique cultural and ecological of aspects of Thailand, this latest title in the popular series, Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants, offers invaluable insights for researchers and healthcare professionals interested in exploring the potential of Thai herbal medicines in the broader context of global health and wellness.

A comprehensive state-of-the-art collection of the most frequently used techniques for plant cell and tissue culture.

Meiosis is one of the most critical processes in eukaryotes, required for continuation of species and generation of new variation.

Nearly every life form found among North American flowering plants is represented in Arizona.

MicroRNAs constitute a particularly important class of small RNAs given their abundance, broad phylogenetic conservation and strong regulatory effects, with plant miRNAs uniquely divulging their ancient evolutionary origins and their strong post-transcriptional regulatory effects.

A great deal of effort is being invested in understanding the molecular mechanisms through which plants interact with pathogenic microbes.

This book addresses the literature gap by providing both theoretical foundations and practical insights into in vitro plant secondary metabolite production.

Phytoplasmas are a group of bacteria that are capable of multiplying and causing severe diseases in a wide range of plant species and are transported between plants by insect vectors in which the bacteria can also multiply.

Recent years have seen significant advancements in the development of enabling technologies that facilitate the study of Transcription Factors (TFs).

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a soil bacterium that for more than a century has been known as a pathogen causing the plant crown gall disease.

The last 10 years have witnessed an explosion in our understanding of plant h- mones.

Functional genomics is a young discipline whose origin can be traced back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when molecular tools became available to determine the cellular functions of genes.