Botany and plant sciences

The use of computer-based image analysis systems for all kinds of images, but especially for microscope images, has become increasingly widespread in recent years, as computer power has increased and costs have dropped.

Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel.

This edited book covers all aspects of wood degradation from its formation and growing in trees to its end usages when it is put into human usage.

The intended audience of this textbook are plant and animal breeders, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in biological and agricultural science majors.

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world's tropical forests.

This book offers a beginner's guide to using light microscopes.

Natural forests with thousands of years of ecological continuity are unrivalled as the treasure store of terrestrial biodiversity on Earth.

Unique flora providing detailed accounts of 4000 native and established species of flowering plants and ferns in Britain and Ireland.

The study of water stress is one of the most interesting subjects in.

Plant and Process Engineering 360 will be the backbone of any plant, chemical, or process engineer's library.

The Monograph deals with the conception, planning, implementation, results and conclusions of the International Witches' Broom Project (IWBP), which was set up in 1985 with the aim of producing an economic management system for witches' broom disease of cocoa.

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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 volume provides comprehensive and detailed protocols that discuss proteomic techniques, plant endosomes, and isolation of organelles and subcellular fractions.

Mit der wissenschaftlichen Erschließung der tropischen Hochgebirge hat sich auch das Interesse der Botaniker aller Disziplinen, Morphologen, Systematiker, Pflanzengeographen, Pflanzenphysiologen der dortigen, z.

In the story of your life, your skin plays a starring role.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

This book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes.

Plants collaborate with many micro-organisms in the rhizosphere to form mutualistic associations.

This updated and much revised third edition of Seeds: Physiology of Development, Germination and Dormancy provides a thorough overview of seed biology and incorporates much of the progress that has been made during the past fifteen years.

Essential oils, renowned for their multifaceted properties, have been integral to the tapestry of human history, forging connections to our past by evoking memories of cherished places and the aromatic embrace of grandparents' kitchens.

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

This volume presents protocols for Brachypodium genomics in numerous areas ranging from marker development, trait evolution, functional genomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, genomics, and tilling.

Letters from 1877, when Darwin published Forms of Flowers and, with his son Francis, experimented on plant movement.

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A highly illustrated, playful field guide for budding natural scientists and curious observers of the world right under our noses.

This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their application in crop breeding.

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.

With the discovery of RNAi pathways and the histone code, epigenetics has become a popular and fast evolving research topic.

Proteomics is a well-established area of Science; yet with a strong area in constant evolution, namely sample treatment.

Peppers and eggplants are two leading vegetable crops produced and consumed worldwide.

Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis plays a major role in biodiversity and stability of ecosystems in tropical forests.

El manual de cultivo más completo escrito en lengua castellana, fruto de décadas de estudios e investigaciones.

The evolution of viruses has been a topic of intense investigation and theoretical development over the past several decades.

This handbook presents how plant in vitro technologies can overcome current limitations in the production of important plant-derived substances.

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts.

This edited book provides knowledge about hemicelluloses biorefinery approaching production life cycle, circular economy, and valorization by obtaining value-added bioproducts and bioenergy.

Access to food with enough calories and nutrients is a fundamental right of every human.

Did you know the brain is the most complex organ in your body?

Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818,1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony.

Aided by this book the gardener can now answer the question "e;What's in a name?

This book presents field studies on crop production in developing countries such as Vietnam, Kenya, Namibia, Colombia, Afghanistan and Sudan.

Mycotoxins, from the Greek "e;mukes"e; referring to fungi or slime molds and toxin from the Latin "e;toxicum"e; referencing a poison for arrows, have earned their reputation for being potentially deleterious to the health and well being of a consuming organism, whether it be animal or human.

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