Botany and plant sciences

Assembling the latest research by an international group of contributors, this volume covers the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and control measures of this elusive microorganism.

This book provides an up-to-date account of the current understanding of climate change and global warming related to environment, climate, plant and vegetation growth.

The Second Edition of this bestseller brings together basic plant pathology methods published in diverse and often abstract publications.

This book provides a general presentation of knowledge and methods in mathematical modelling and simulation of individual plants.

This invaluable resource introduces the eleven types of organism that cause plant disease, ranging from higher plants to viroids and describes examples of cash and staple crop diseases that have caused human catastrophes.

Bioenergetics of Photosynthesis covers the transformation of energy in biological systems, with an emphasis on photosynthesis.

This study attempts to analyse the British Forest Policy from 1864 to 1947, in particular context of Assam.

Wild Edible Underutilized Plants explores the role of wild plants in human nutrition-a topic that continues to take precedence in various fields of research.

Biologists ask how the growth, development and behaviour of organisms happen, how these processes are co-ordinated and how they are regulated by the environment.

The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists.

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Microcirculation as Related to Shock contains the proceedings of the 1967 Conference on the Microcirculation as Related to Shock held at Boston University.

Sea turtles have existed for millions of years, making them fascinating subjects of study.

How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it's their time to bloom?

Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production, yet sacrificed flavor, taste, and other qualities.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of invited and contributed papers of the 9th International Workshop on Sulfur Metabolism in Plants, which was hosted by Heinz Rennenberg, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and was held at Schloss Reinach, Freiburg-Munzigen, Germany from April 14-17, 2014.

World production of citrus fruits is still growing.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.

view than its own proper males should fecundate each blossom.

Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all.

Embark on a journey through the enchanting world of the rainforest in Charlotte Milner's beautifully illustrated The Rainforest Book.

The cropping system is one of the important components of sustainable agriculture, since it provides more efficient nutrient cycling.

This work reviews and explores various aspects of uchuva growth and development from seed germination, vegetative growth and phyllotaxy, floral development, pollination, and pollen morphology through fruit development, properties and health benefits.

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.

Introduction to Modern Biochemistry, Fourth Edition provides a better understanding of the chemical background of biological phenomena.

Gazing up at the stars, Benjamin Banneker longed to understand how and why things worked as they did.

Plant virus infections are estimated to cost billions of dollars in economic losses.

This book collates the most up to date information on Fragaria, and Rubus genomes.

Aspergillus niger: Pathogenicity, Cultivation and Uses summarizes the results of numerous research experiments on the biomineralization of rocks and minerals carried out with the participation of the fungus Aspergillus niger.

Natural bioactive compounds have become an integral part of plant-microbe interactions geared toward adaptation to environmental changes.

This book focuses on the recent progress of nanotechnology with emphasis on the interaction between nanoparticles and plants on the cellular level.

This new volume offers a valuable introduction to plant ecology from a genomics point of view, presenting a thorough foundation and summary of modern approaches, methodologies, research goals, and evidence of plant ecology in the modern genomic era.

Although many pursue understanding of the relationship between protein structure and function for the thrill of pure science, the pay-off in a much broader sense is the ability to manipulate the Earth's chemistry and biology to improve the quality of life for mankind.

In eastern Australia, grassy eucalypt woodlands have been under severe pressure from agricultural development, with problems of land degradation and species decline being most severe in the cropping lands of south-eastern Australia.

Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario.

Under ongoing climate change, natural and cultivated habitats of major food crops are being continuously disturbed.

This volume explores the latest advancements and techniques used by researchers to work with plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs) and to study their interactions with crop plants.

This volume gathers case studies on plant diversity from selected, representative mountain systems of Italy (Mediterranean and temperate zones), while also addressing the biodiversity of avian fauna.

In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.

How Objects Store and Exert Energy

Did you know the moon helps stabilize Earth's tilt, which effects our climate?

Apomixis in Angiosperms: Nucellar and Integumentary Embryony is based on original cytoembryological data and critically reviewed literature on more than 250 species from 57 families of angiosperms.

With their unique ability to spin silk that is stronger than steel, spiders make cunning traps as well as beautiful webs.

During the past twentieth century, plant pathology has witnessed a dramatic advancement in management of plant diseases through in-depth investigations of host parasite interactions, integration of new concepts, principles and approaches.

Class insecta is numerically the largest class of the largest phylum outnumbering the total number of all the other known species of the rest of the animal kingdom.

Botany pertains to the study of plants, which have always been of great importance since the formation of the planet 'Earth'.

The pulse of life with the seasons is a classic theme of biology, equally cap- turing every man's curiosity about early and late milestones of every year's cycle and the critical physiologist's inquiry into life's subtle signals and responses.