Plants create a dynamic micro-biosphere in the soil, around the roots, called as 'rhizosphere', which harbors diverse number of microorganisms for sustaining their growth and development.
This new book throws light on the use of nanoparticles as nanofertifilizers and details their prospective applications in agricultural science, including their use in minimizing the consequences of climate change, enhancing nutrient utilization efficiency, and achieving abiotic stress management.
Latest figures suggest that approximately 20% of the world's population of six billion is malnourished because of food shortages and inadequate distrib- ution systems.
Wild Anthropocene examines four key areas-the politics of deep time, neoliberalism's socio-ecological impacts, global population growth and inter-species entanglement-to demonstrate how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges.
Essential processes in biology such as cell and nuclear division, development, intracellular transport and physiological response, rely on the perception of environmental and intracellular signals and their transduction to subcellular targets.
As the shortcomings of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more apparent, a renaissance of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring.
Biotechnological Applications of Photosynthetic Proteins: Biochips, Biosensors and Biodevices provides an overview of the recent photosystem II research and the systems available for the bioassay of pollutants using biosensors that are based on the photochemical activity.
The Encyclopedia of Entomology brings together the expertise of more than 450 distinguished entomologists from 40 countries to provide a worldwide overview of insects and their close relatives.
The vegetation addressed in this book is, biologically, one of the most diverse on Earth, with many characteristic taxa offering refuge and food sources for many resident and migratory animals.
Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.
In this book, Florence Wambugu and Daniel Kamanga of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International bring together expert African authorities to critique various biotechnology initiatives and project future developments in the field in Africa.
Bee faunal diversity in the Nilgiris part of the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu *Size of pollen foraging population and its dynamics in Apis cerana indica and Apis mellifera in different regions in Karnataka * Preferential visitation by different species of honey bees on three elite genotypes of Sesame * Foraging behaviour of honey bees on three elite genotypes of niger Comparative analysis of aerospora at five different sites in Lucknow, India * Megascolia flavifrons "e; An unusual pollinator of onion flowers * Meliponiculture for yield enhancement and food safety in Kerala * Sporulation in marine brown algae of Indian coast: A Review * Apomixis in an endangered endemic tree species, Poeciloneuron pauciflorum Bedd.
Advances in Plant Physiology takes into account the vast increase in physiological knowledge and the evolution of fundamental concepts that are uniquely associated with plant physiology.
This illustrated manual describes and discusses the unusually rich and varied flora of the Carolinas, from the semi-tropical coast of South Carolina to the northern forests of the high North Carolina mountains.
Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future.
This revised edition maintains the clear, nontechnical format of the first, and covers the infectious diseases of shade trees, the major pathogens that cause them, and noninfectious diseases and their agents.
Algae for Food: Cultivation, Processing and Nutritional BenefitsAlgae are a primitive, living photosynthetic form and they are the oldest living organism.
This comprehensive guide to wetland weeds covers both native and introduced species, ranging from minor or localised environmental problems to those that should not be tolerated in any situation.
Over the past century, the majority of chemical and energy needs of our industrial society has originated from fossilized carbon sources (coal, crude oil, natural gas).
Nanometal Oxides in Horticulture and Agronomy, a volume in the Nanomaterial-Plant Interactions series, summarizes the physiological, morphological, biochemical, and molecular regulation of metal oxide nanoparticles in plants under normal conditions as well as during different stresses.
