Botany and plant sciences

Earlier books on the handling of plant chromosomes have not included many of the innovations in cytological techniques for many important crops that have become available in recent years, including information on associating genes with chromosomes.

Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of Distribution, Abundance and Species Richness in R and BUGS, Volume Two: Dynamic and Advanced Models provides a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, also focusing on the complex and more advanced models currently available.

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In the Dictionary of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology, more than 3,500 technical terms from the fields of plant genetics and molecular biology are defined for students, teachers, and researchers in universities, institutes, and agricultural research stations.

This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life.

Biological nomenclature is an essential tool for storing and retrieving biological information.

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Quite naturally, photosynthesis has achieved massive amounts of attention in recent years.

The beauty of plants has attracted the attention of mathematicians for Mathematics centuries.

Plant Biochemistry focuses on the molecular and cellular aspects of each major metabolic pathway and sets these within the context of the whole plant.

Stars decorate our sky every night, but we're still learning things about how they form and what they're made of.

The colorful book ';Diseases, Pests and Disorders of Plantation Crops' provides current information on diseases, insect pests, disorders of six important plantation crops and their management.

Gaseous Air Pollutants and Plant Metabolism mainly talks about plants and air pollution.

The entire range of the developmental process in plants is regulated by a shift in the hormonal concentration, tissue sensitivity and their interaction with the factors operating around the plants.

This edited book is focused on SDG 15.

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

This comprehensive volume presents indispensable and up-to-date information on viroids and viroid diseases.

This publication contains the most important information acquired over the last twenty years in the area of nitrogen metabolism and envisages new strategies to improve plant species of agronomic value by devising new techniques for growing them.

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The genus Betula, generally known as birch, belongs to the family Betulaceae.

Deep in the Central African Republic, forest elephants trumpet and rumble along with the forest's symphony.

Cyanobacteria make a major contribution to world photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation, but are also notorious for causing nuisances such as dense and often toxic `blooms' in lakes and the ocean.

This edited volume is an inclusive collection of information on crop holobiome, their function and diversity, the plausible role of soil microbes in crop growth, protection from pathogens and stresses, the use of resilient microbiomes for changing climate, and the use of new technologies to study plant-insect-microbe molecular interactions in agricultural systems.

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment.

This contributed volume explores the latest breakthroughs in genetic and genomic resources for enhancing biotic stress responses in grain legumes - including minor ones.

This book describes the diversity and functional roles of fungal endophytes.

Plants have to manage a series of environmental stresses throughout their entire lifespan.

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demonstrates the importance of communication between natural scientists, social scientists, and local stakeholders in response to the tremendous challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic.

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work.

Plant Microbiology provides a comprehensive source of information on DNA sequencing and mapping, the newest technology and procedures in areas such as radiation hybrid mapping, FISH and specialized sequencing techniques are covered.

There have been several advancements made in high-throughput protein technologies creating immense possibilities for studying proteomics on a large scale.

Did you know there are gases all around us, but they're invisible?

Environmental, Physiological and Chemical Controls of Adventitious Rooting in Cuttings provides a review of the environmental, physiological and chemical controls of adventitious rooting in cuttings obtained from plants.

Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as an effective approach towards the discovery of novel ethnopharmacological properties and bioactive compounds that characterize herbal products, pharmaceutical drugs and medicinal plants.

Landraces possess a very large genetic base in population structure and are dynamic populations of cultivated plants with historical origin, distinct identity, and without any formal crop improvement.

Recently, the public attention has turned toward the intricate interrelation between economic growth and global warming.

Carotenoids are a large class of isoprenoid pigments produced by plants and certain microbes.

Opens the door to the curious mind, inspiring students, from late undergraduates to post-doctoral researchers, to engage in bryological research.

This edited book brings together comprehensive information on various aspects of the biofortification of staple crops.

Heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century.

Achieving high water use efficiency in maintaining turf, trees and landscape areas is a core responsibility of open space managers.

The papers in this volume cover micromorphological studies of a wide variety of topics, at various scales from ultramicro- to mesoscopic.

Polyploidy plays an important role in biological diversity, trait improvement, and plant species survival.

This book features Louis Agassiz's seminal lecture course in which the Swiss-American scientist, a self-styled "e;American Humboldt,"e; summarized the state of zoological knowledge in his time.