Botany and plant sciences

This book aims to promote studies on the entire spectrum of phototropic phenomena in higher and lower plants and fungi.

This volume describes different up-to-date methodological approaches, ranging from physiological assays to imaging and molecular techniques, to study a wide variety of plant responses to environmental cues.

This detailed volume addresses recent developments in phosphoproteomic techniques with a particular focus on the plant system.

This volume provides readers with wide-ranging coverage of CRISPR systems and their applications in various plant species.

This book provides methods and clear protocols for the various technologies available to detect, characterize, and study Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a member of the genus Closterovirus, family Closteroviridae.

This detailed volume explores common and numerous specialized methods to study various aspects of plant germline development and targeted manipulation, including imaging and hybridization techniques to study cell-type specification, cell lineage, signaling and hormones, cell cycle, and the cytoskeleton.

This volume aims to present a representative cross-section of modern experimental approaches relevant to Plant Hormone Biology, ranging from relatively simple physiological to highly sophisticated methods.

This volume provides a fundamental overview of the current state of the art in natural products from marine algae, linking the complex and diverse natural resource with recent developments in extraction, analytical and bioactivity testing methodologies.

This volume explores plastid evolution, structure, and function in algae, plants and protists.

This is volume presents protocols relevant for plant receptor kinases(PRK) both in development and defence.

This volume provides protocols that revolve around three pillars of progress in the plant genomics field: genotypes, phenotypes, and the molecular processes in between.

Thisvolume provides a variety of protocols to analyze various epigeneticchanges, including differential expression of non-coding RNAs, changes in DNAmethylation, and histone modifications in plants.

This volume provides detailed techniques used for the study and characterization of the plant vascular system, with a central focus on the xylem tissue.

The volume presents valuable methods that look at important biological processes not traditionally assayed in the study of plant immunity, and at non-model systems.

This volume covers a wide range of methods to measure cellular respiration and internal oxygen in various tissues under different conditions.

This detailed volume compiles state-of-the-art methodologies for the study of brassinosteroid hormones, contributed by recognized researchers in the field, in order to bring together different experimental and theoretical biology techniques for addressing the questions of how brassinosteroids function in Arabidopsis and other agriculturally valuable species, such as rice and sorghum.

This detailed volume provides diverse elegant methods, complemented with existing protocols, which are optimized for the current needs in plant root biology as well as for use in plant species other than Arabidopsis thaliana.

This volume describes up-to-date techniques for improved production of secondary metabolites of economic interest using field and laboratory methods.

Plant Cold Acclimation: Methods and Protocols details many of the methods and protocols commonly used to study plant cold acclimation and freezing tolerance, breeding, genetics, physiology or molecular biology, or any combination of these specialties.

Thisvolume is a collection of detailed protocols describing state-of-art approachesthat will facilitate the understanding of protein homeostasis in plant stressresponses and development.

This volume focuses on various approaches to studying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), including techniques for finding lncRNAs, localization, and observing their functions.

This volume discusses easy-to-follow protocols for researchers in the field of plant chemical genomics.

Plant Endosomes: Methods and Protocols explores a collection of protocols and techniques to analyze in vivo trafficking of endocytic/endosomal cargo, including lipids, fluids, proteins and ligands, ultrastructural features of endosomes by high-pressure freezing/freeze-substitution and electron tomography, as well as protein-protein interactions in the endosomal and endomembrane system.

This detailed book explores strategies that have been developed to combat plant virus infection.

This fully updated volume reflects the spectacular advances in our knowledge of signal transduction pathways with a selection of 'classic' as well as newly developed approaches.

This second edition provides a comprehensive collection of the cutting-edge methods for creating and monitoring transgenic cotton and its application on agricultural and basic research.

This volume presents the most recent studies on mRNA polyadenylation in plants.

This volume provides a collection of state-of-the-art protocols on plant vacuolar trafficking.

This detailed book presents methods that enable the determination of parameters relevant to phloem research in the most efficient ways, putting plant scientists with access to adequate instrumentation in the position to answer any phloem-related question.

This volume provides a collection of protocols aimed toward the study of ethylene signaling in plants.

The chapters compiled in this detailed collection outline a number of methods used to study plant mitochondria today, starting from the isolation of mitochondria to detailed analyses of RNA, protein and enzymatic activities.

This volume presents a range of different techniques that have been used to characterize the structure and function of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in higher plants.

This volume provides the plant scientific community with a collection of established and recently developed experimental protocols to study plant gravitropism.

This two-volume book is a valuable resource to students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers, consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture or plant sciences particularly in date palm biotechnology.

This detailed volume explores numerous protocols that can be specifically used for studying plant programmed cell death (PCD), a mechanism involved in a number of physiological and pathological processes that are triggered by developmental requirements as well as changing/adverse environmental conditions.

Ethnobiology and ethnoecology have become very popular in recent years.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary methods to analyze photorespiration in higher plants.

This volume discusses popular methods to achieve different types of mutagenesis and forward/reverse genetics in Medicago truncatula.

This volume aims at providing readers with protocols to enhance their research for the next decade of phytochrome research.

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of protocols that can be used to study plant chromatin structure and composition.

This book details sorghum breeding technologies, grain compounds, nutrition and digestibility, biotechnology methods, broad renewable applications and an economic study.

This detailed book aims to address the need for standardizing key steps in plant metabolomics research that is still considered a critical issue in the field.

This two-volume book is a valuable resource to students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers, consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture or plant sciences particularly in date palm biotechnology.

This detailed volume provides background on recent new technology developments highlighting the potential of the genomic era in wheat breeding with invaluable instruction on the methodology, which is complemented by overview chapters on the status of new technology application in major wheat production countries.

The objective of this volume is to detail current technologies associated with cereal genomics, providing a valuable resource for researchers working in breeding and molecular crop improvement programs.

The ability to produce vast amounts of DNA sequence data has enabled the discovery of molecular markers in model organisms, crops, as well as orphan species making genotyping the rate limiting factor, and this volume focuses on the different markers available and the low to high throughput genotyping of these markers.

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

With numerous methods available for the quantification ofnitric oxide (NO), this detailed book explores their advantages anddisadvantages in order to provide a foundation for further research in plantnitric oxide.

This volume assembles protocols for chromosome engineering and genome editing in two recently developed approaches for manipulating chromosomal and genomic DNA in plants.

This volume aims to present a large panel of techniques for the study of Plant Cell Division.