Botany and plant sciences

This textbook provides a structured, easy to understand and thorough insight into the mode of function of plant secondary metabolites in plants and humans.

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods.

What do you know about the sense of sight?

Nearly every life form found among North American flowering plants is represented in Arizona.

Photosynthesis and the complex network within plants is becoming more important than ever, because of the earth s changing climate.

Ready for Science series, Emergent Reader, non fiction narrative, strong picture support, Text features: Picture glossary, labels, Comprehension strategies: Identify main idea and details, ask and answer questions, and make text to self and text to world connections.

Plant viruses are significant as they affect our food supply and are capable of rapidly spreading to new plant species, so a comprehensive study of plant viruses is important in understanding their pathogenesis and prevention.

What do a doorstop, a butter knife, and the front of a boat have in common?

Honeybees are an important link in our food chain because they are major pollinators of food crops.

Light and Plant Development presents the Proceedings of the 22nd University of Nottingham Easter School in Agricultural Science.

Using molecular methods for plant disease diagnosis provides diagnosticians with a number of advantages over more traditional methods.

This book discusses central concepts and theories in cell biology from the ancient past to the 21st century, based on the premise that understanding the works of scientists like Hooke, Hofmeister, Caspary, Strasburger, Sachs, Schleiden, Schwann, Mendel, Nemec, McClintock, etc.

Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushrooms Field Guide tells how to find wild mushrooms in America.

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

This book deals with the most emerging aspects of algal research with special reference to microalgae viz; diversity, mutations, genomics and metagenomics study, eco-physiology, culturing, microalgae for food and feed, biofuel production, harvesting of microalgae, separation, and purification of biochemicals, techno-economical assessment, microalgal biotechnology, algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment.

Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses, including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects of virus biology and control.

The marine environment accounts for most of the biodiversity on our planet, while offering a huge potential for the benefit and wellbeing of mankind.

Today's plant lovers, food producers and agricultural planners, voices together to protect the plants from insects and diseases.

This new volume highlights the various emerging techniques and molecular applications that are currently being used in plant abiotic stress physiology.

The book is based on the author's life time experience in exploring and researching the genus Avena.

This volume of Applied Mycology and Biotechnology completes the set of two volumes dedicated to the coverage of recent developments on the theme "e;Agriculture and Food Production"e;.

This comprehensive book explores both the fundamental and practical aspects of microbial genetics, shedding light on viroids, viruses, phytoplasma, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.

This new volume explores the importance of phytochemicals from plants in therapeutics, focusing on the extraction of bioactive compounds and their applications in human health.

The present treatise on the Plantation and agri-horticultural crops of Kerala, has been prepared on the invitation of the chairman, State Committee on the Science and Technology, Kerala (SCST) extended to the Director (Prof.

This book is an attempt to compile and integrate the information documented by many botanists, both Egyptians and others, about the vegetation of Egypt.

Most of medicinal plants, today are collected from wild plants.

Before the concept of history began, humans undoubtedly acquired life benefits by discovering medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) that were food and medicine.

Matter Is Anything That Has Mass, And This Title Teaches Students About How Temperature Affects The Different States Of Matter And Why.

This edited book focuses on ROS synthesis, potential applications, toxicity, and preservations.

Recognised by universities worldwide and fully comparable to UK reformed GCE A levels.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book addresses Synthetic Biology (SynBio), a new and promising biotechnology that has attracted much interest from both a scientific and a policy perspective.

For about 40 years 1 have been engaged in timberline research.

Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a descrip- tive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century.

Diagnosis of Plant Virus Diseases presents a comprehensive summary of methods currently available for the diagnosis of plant diseases caused by viruses and viroids.

Plant growth and productivity are limited in many areas of the world by a wide variety of environmental stresses.

Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Species in Post-harvest Physiology of Horticultural Crops, a volume in the Plant Gasotransmitter series, analyzes the latest advances in post-harvest physiology.

This book provides an overview of how boreal and temperate tree species have adapted their annual development cycle to the seasonally varying climatic conditions.

This book summarizes the latest studies on plant reproduction and multiple aspects of signaling in reproductive development.

This book discusses the remarkable plant diversity of the Maltese Archipelago.

Ecometabolomics: Metabolic Fluxes versus Environmental Stoichiometry focuses on the interaction between plants-particularly plants that have vigorous secondary metabolites-and the environment.

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With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

This stunningly beautiful book throws open the closed doors of the Sydney herbaria, and the history of Australia''s flora.

Did you know that liquids flow and take the shape of whatever container they're poured into?

This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan.

Key features:Presents the latest trends and developments of neuromediators in plantsProvides in-depth coverage of plants enriched in neurotransmitters (especially serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine) and how they are used in medicine, pharmacy, and food nutritionDiscusses the physiological role of the neurotransmitters (biomediators) in non-nervous systems including the analysis of effects on the growth and development and stress defenseCovers the occurrence of the substances that act in human and animal nervous system in plants as a phenomenon of the universal irritability feature for biologistsReveals the occurrence and possible physiological functions of biogenic amines in plants, food, and human healthNew scientific data confirm the origin of neurotransmitters in the ancient ocean, whose inhabitants use the compounds in their relationships.

Teeth need lots of brushing and flossing to stay healthy-but why?