Botany and plant sciences

Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives.

As per the reports of FAO, the human population will rise to 9 billion by the end of 2050 and 70% of more food must be produced over the next three decades to feed the additional population.

This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health.

This book has combined information on the most recent agricultural practices and breeding methods for ornamental crops.

This book provides a practical guidance and a set of principles for improving management of saline and alkali waters and thus would be useful for different stakeholders, including agricultural students, researchers, environmentalists, and policy makers.

This third volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

Insects, diseases, and weeds cause an almost 30% yield loss per annum in agricultural production, resulting in an increased consumption of pesticides by 20% per annum throughout the world.

Three days in Madison have thoroughly modified my view on clostridial neurotoxins.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook.

Contents: Editorial, Monitoring of forest fires/biomass burning-Satellite remote sensing approach, rhythm of spore shedding in marine algae, Effect of autumn-winter season on the development of insect pollinators in temperate zone of Himachal Pradesh, Pollen and pollinator resources of Kerala part of Western ghats, South India, Palynological studies on some species of gesneriaceae, Role of bees as pollinators of tropical forest species and need for conserving their diversity, Reproductive biology of Jatropha integerrima Jacq.

Nicht zuletzt durch die analytischen Leistungen der Naturwissenschaften wurde unser Weltbild in immer mehr und kleinere Fraktionen zerlegt.

Laboratory Protocols in Fungal Biology presents the latest techniques in fungal biology.

This volume records the proceedings of, and the papers read at, an international conference to consider the use of electronic data processing methods in the major taxonomic plant collections of Europe, primarily herbaria but also living collections.

Structural Wood Detailing in CAD Format is a reference library for wood building construction.

Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies.

Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins.

This book presents a broad perspective on saponins as important natural products with a key role in plant defense.

Fruit Breeding is the eighth volume in the Handbook of Plant Breeding series.

Agriculture depends on improved cultivars, and cultivars are developed through proper plant breeding.

This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of what is one of the world's worst weeds.

This book presents principles of animal biodiversity, its importance, sustainable utilization, and conservation.

In agricultural education and research, the study of agricultural microbiology has undergone tremendous changes in the past few decades, leading to today's scientific farming that is a backbone of economy all over the globe.

The sustainability of both natural and managed ecosystems is strongly influenced by soil biological processes.

We're all familiar with the idea that plant-derived chemicals can have an impact on the functioning of the human brain.

Plant Transcription Factors: Evolutionary, Structural and Functional Aspects is the only publication that provides a comprehensive compilation of plant transcription factor families and their complex roles in plant biology.

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and certain species of bacteria transform solar energy into chemical energy in the form of organic molecules.

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is a crop native to the Bambara tribe of Mali and is grown as a subsistence crop in Africa.

In September, 1990, a group of 160 scientists from 19 countries and 21 of the United States met at the Red Lion Inn in Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts.

The soybean is an economically important leguminous seed crop for feed and food products that is rich in seed protein (about 40 percent) and oil (about 20 percent); it enriches the soil by fixing nitrogen in symbiosis with bacteria.

There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries.

Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

Learn About The Basic Building Blocks Of All Living Things - Cells.

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 volume explores analytical methods to study complex lipid mixtures from plants and algae.

This handbook shows how the techniques of point-pattern analysis are useful for tackling ecological problems.

The 'Advances in Plant Biopesticides' comprises 19 chapters on different important issues of developing biopesticides from promising botanicals and its phytomolecules based on the research reviews in the area concern.

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical.

Panax Ginseng has been commonly used in indigenous medicine in the Far East for over 5,000 years.

This is a concise guide to the combined use of classical and molecular methods for the genetic analysis and breeding of fungi.

This volume aims at providing a complete and updated overview of gene downregulation in plants performed through virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS).

Insects, pests and weeds are responsible for substantial loss of crops and reduced food supplies, poorer quality of agricultural products, economic hardship for growers and processor.

The study of the structure and function of tetrapyrrolic compounds has excited the interests of organic chemists, biochemists, botanists and biologists for more than a hundred years.

This detailed volume explores rice molecular biology, genetic engineering, and genome editing technologies.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.