An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant's metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds.
The NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "e;The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center: Structure, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics"e; was held May 10-15, 1992, in the Maison d'H6tes of the Centre d'Etudes Nuc1eaires de Cadarache near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.
The monograph entitled "e;Crop responses to Global warming"e; describes the normal historical shifts in the earth's atmospheric temperature and weighs the evidence concerning anthropogenic induced changes in the level of temperature.
Mouse Models of Development and Disease, Volume 148 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting chapters describing Mouse models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Mouse models in palate and craniofacial development, Uterine morphogenesis, Improving the translatability of mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, Mouse models for the study of clustered protocadherins, Mechanisms of organ regeneration in the spiny mouse, Comparative studies of organ vascularization, Modeling human urinary tract development and hereditary malformations, Innervation in organogenesis, Between embryo and adult: somatic growth of the kidney, and Mouse models in the study of Notch signaling.
This volume provides an overview of methods for plant species, mainly species with high economic value, to achieve in vitro propagation through somatic embryogenesis.
This book offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art source reference for understanding the functions and mechanisms responsible for yield and quality determination under a range of conditions.
Sixteen topics from the results of the research project "e;Molecular Mechanisms for Responses of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to the Environment,"e; are documented in this excellent and timely work.
It is refreshing to find a book treating alkaloid analysis with all the latest techniques such as inverse-detected two dimensional NMR, GC/MS, and HPLC associated techniques.
Photosynthesis in silico: Understanding Complexity from Molecules to Ecosystems is a unique book that aims to show an integrated approach to the understanding of photosynthesis processes.
This new volume, Advances in Sorghum Science: Botany, Production, and Crop Improvement, provides an easy-to-read and comprehensive treatment of the sorghum crop.
Understand sustainable development from economic, ecological, and social perspectivesAs world population continues to increase, the need grows for a safe, sustainable supply of food.
To meet the food security needs of the 21st century, this book focuses on ecofriendly and sustainable production technologies based on plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR).
* Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the FAO as one of the world's main crops for future food security* Timely publication The year 2013 has been declared "e;The International Year of the Quinoa"e; (IYQ), recognizing the Andean indigenous peoples, who have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature.
The demands of producing high-quality, pathogen-free food rely increasingly on natural sources of antimicrobials to inhibit food spoilage organisms, foodborne pathogens, and toxins.
Bioinformatics is an integrative field of computer science, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and statistics, which has undoubtedly revolutionized the study of biology and medicine in past decades.
Allelopathy is a field that can play a major role in containing environmental pollution through providing viable alternatives to synthetic pesticides and contributing to sustainable agriculture.
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a class of RNA molecules that do not encode proteins but play pivotal roles in regulating gene expression and cellular processes.
This book assembles a comprehensive collection of plant virus electron micrographs of good quality, offers a consistent treatment, and backs the visual data with a consistent and comprehensive text.
This book offers an exhaustive coverage of process modifications in biodiesel production from oil drawn from 84 oleaginous plant species occurring in all parts of the world, thereby enlisting the scope and potential of many new and non-conventionally obscure plant sources.
A classic in the literature of herbal medicine, this book explains in simple terms the commonly occurring chemical constituents of medicinal plants, and how these react with the human body.
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.
It is an honor and pleasure for me to write the foreword of this book comprising the of Forest Resources for proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the Improvement Recyclable Forest Products.
In this comprehensive desk reference, a variety of bioactives and therapeutics from the legume family (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are thoroughly detailed.
This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment.
Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion and across geographic regions, with ecosystem and agricultural consequences.
Biocontrol Systems and Plant Physiology in Modern Agriculture: Processes, Strategies, Innovations focuses on new production alternatives that do not include pesticides, herbicides, or chemicals for primary food production and instead rely on biologically controlled systems of production.
Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a widely studied biomolecule, and its function has been investigated in bacteria, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and plants.
Over the past few years there has been an increase in the variety of tropical fruits available for consumption, due to improved breeding, postharvest management and distribution systems.
