Botany and plant sciences

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, methods and applications of chemical ecology, covering such topics as chemical signalling, predator-prey interactions, host plant selection and chemical defence.

The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels.

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes.

This book provides an insightful journey into the realm of chloroplast biology.

This Title Explains How Humans And Animals Have A Skeleton To Support The Inner Workings Of Their Bodies And How The Muscle Attached To The Skeleton Helps Us Move.

The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of .

Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists.

Corn and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor subsp.

Climate change has emerged as the most pressing global challenge of the 21st century and it has a dramatic effect on natural ecosystems and environment.

Ethnobotany of India: Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the third of a five-volume set of Ethnobotany of India.

The past decade has seen major advances in the cloning of genes encoding enzymes of plant secondary metabolism.

Areas with high agricultural potential include arid zones, which make up 43% of the world's total area.

In the industrial era, the most important potential threat to crop production is abiotic stress, including toxic metal/metalloid stress.

This volume provides a general overview of the therapeutic potential of the essential oils in cancer and highlights some promising future directions.

Forest Microbiology: Tree Diseases and Pests, Volume Three in the Forest Microbiology series, provides an overview of major disease agents of trees, including viruses, phytoplasma, bacteria, fungi, nematodes and major insect pests.

This book presents the latest information on the genetics and genomics of the globe artichoke.

This book recounts the habits of many interesting and unusual exceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life.

The analysis of vegetation history is one of the prime objectives for vegetation scientists.

All life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct.

In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca.

The abiotic stresses like drought, temperature, cold, salinity, heavy metals etc.

Green Biotechnology for Herbal and Medicinal Plant Metabolites presents an innovative approach that leverages plant-derived molecules for agriculture, medicine, and wellness in pursuit of sustainable health solutions.

Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 11 Plant diseases are destructive and threaten virtually any crop grown on a commercial scale.

The only textbook that fully supports the Physics part of the Oxford AQA International GCSE Combined Sciences specification (9204), for first teaching from September 2016.

Contents: Metabolic Role of Boron in Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth, Cytology and Histochemistry of Microsporogenesis in Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Plants, Self-Incompatibility: Some Recent Developments, Pollen Biotechnology and Fertilization Engineering in Crop Improvement, Pollen Biotechnology- Storage and Viability, Pollen Carbohydrates and Their Metabolic Regulation, Biochemistry of Bacterial Spores.

This book is a compilation of detailed articles on various products and services that can be derived from bioresources through bioprocess.

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way to instruct students that will nurture both Earth and self.

This book compiles various methodologies used in understanding interactions within the rhizosphere.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

This volume summarizes recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that produce successful symbiotic partnerships involving microorganisms.

This informative book focuses on the nutritional value of potatoes and ways to improve it.

During last couple of decades, a great deal of research has explored what exactly plants contain (bioactives) and how these molecules may interact with human physiology at the molecular level.

This volume gives an insight into what a group of contemporary plankton biologists think about the utility, virtues, strengths and theoretical and practical weaknesses of J.

In an era where climate change, natural catastrophes and land degradation are major issues, the conservation of soil and vegetation in mountainous or sloping regions has become an international priority.

This book focuses on the role of hydrogen sulfide in the protection of plants against abiotic stresses and abiotic stress-induced complications by the way of converging advanced key methods of proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics.

Providing an in-depth introduction to the rapidly evolving field of wildlife forensics, this volume also chronicles aspects of the history of management, conservation, and environmental protection, with an emphasis on their global importance in the twenty-first century.

Kim Kellermann erörtert in diesem Buch, wie die Ernährung für die Zukunft gesichert werden kann, möglichst ohne die Natur für kommende Generationen dauerhaft durch schlechte Landwirtschaftspraktiken zu schädigen.

Feeding Asia in the 21st century will require a second Green Revolution.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments provides an overview of how unmanned aerial systems have revolutionized our capability to monitor river systems, soil characteristics, and related processes at unparalleled spatio-temporal resolutions.

Since the publication of the first edition of "e;The Mycota Vol.

Biological fixation of nitrogen by organisms and associations other than those concerned in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis has attracted increasing attention since the firstintemationalworkshop on the theme at Piracicaba, Brasil, in 1979.

All the information you need on plant viruses in a single volumeThe Handbook of Plant Virology is a comprehensive guide to the terms and expressions commonly used in the study of plant virology, complete with descriptions of plant virus families down to the generic level.