Botany and plant sciences

Natural remedies play an important role in curing ailments that happen by chance or adoptively.

Practise and prepare for AQA A-level Biology with hundreds of topic-based questions and one complete set of exam practice papers designed to strengthen knowledge and prepare students for the exams.

Topical review of the role of extinction in evolution for students and researchers.

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions.

The Second International Congress on Photosynthesis Research took place in Stresa, Italy during June 24-29, 1971; two centuries after the discovery of Photosynthesis by Joseph Priestley in 1971.

Exam Board: WJEC, EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2017Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades.

The Tao of Vegetable Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening.

This book dispenses a comprehensive coverage of up-to-date account of genomics and genome editing enriched smart plant breeding approaches for enhancing genetic gains in vegetable crops in the post-genomics era.

This edited book is collection of information on molecular interventions needed for climate-resilient forage crops.

Exploring plant genetic resources is crucial in a time when food security has been a critical topic worldwide due to crop shortages and the impact of climate change.

The intense application of synthetic chemical pesticides in different crops has created many complications such as pesticide resistance in insects, secondary pest outbreak and health hazards.

The Guayana Highlands in northeastern tropical America, rising from lowland rain forests and savannas up to 3000 m elevation, are characterized by ancient tablelands called tepuis.

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.

Each of the twenty chapters in The Photochemistry of Carotenoids is written by leading experts in the area of carotenoid research and gives a comprehensive overview of a particular topic in the field.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of photoassimilate partitioning and source-sink relationhips, this work details the major aspects of source-sink physiology and metabolism, the integration of individual components and photoassimilate partitioning, and the whole plant source-sink relationships in 16 agriculturally important crops.

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The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential.

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.

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012.

While tomatoes continue to be one of the most widely grown plants, the production and distribution of tomato fruits have been changing worldwide.

Rapid developments in molecular and systems biology techniques have allowed researchers to unravel many new mechanisms through which plant cells switch over to alternative respiratory pathways.

Are there signs of life on Mars?

Agronomic crops have provided food, beverages, fodder, fuel, medicine and industrial raw materials since the beginning of human civilization.

This is an authoritative book that acts as a guide to understanding maize kernel development.

Colonization Control of Human Bacterial Enteropathogens in Poultry consists of papers presented at the International Symposium on Colonization Control of Human Bacterial Enteropathogens in Poultry.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective.

This edited book addresses the introduction to wheat, advancements in breeding, the contribution of biotechnological approaches, the development of climate-resilient wheat cultivars, and biofortification efforts to create nutrient-rich wheat cultivars.

Malaria continues to affect a large population of the world, especially in third world countries.

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This book addresses all the major mechanisms by which endophytes are thought to impact plant growth and health.

The Caucasus Isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas (38025' and 47015'N, 36030' and 50020'E) is a region in the Northern Hemisphere.

Biological diversity - or 'biodiversity' - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem.

Cotton, the most important natural fiber crop, has been improved by conventional breeding-largely through planned hybridization of different cotton genotypes, since the discovery of Mendelian genetics.

Plant hormone signaling plays an important role in many physiological and developmental processes including stress response.

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

The transposable genetic elements, or transposons, as they are now known, have had a tumultuous history.

What do you know about sharks?

Harmal: The Genus Peganum is an in-depth treatment of one of the most commanding plants in the botanical kingdom.

This volume focuses on the family Euphorbiaceae.

Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions, provides an essential summary of an exciting decade of research on relationships between lipids and photosynthesis.

The cyst nematodes are a major group of plant pathogens of economic importance in many countries throughout the world.

California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs.

Ten years ago Polar Biology published the book, Weddell Sea Ecology, containing the European "e;Polarstern"e; study EPOS in the Weddell Sea and Peninsula waters 1988/89.

Biochemical, Physiological and Molecular Avenues for Combating Abiotic Stress in Plants is a must-have reference for researchers and professionals in agronomy, plant science and horticulture.

The emergence of fungicide resistance is a major challenge facing agriculture.