Botany and plant sciences

This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.

This title is a much needed update of Barbosa's self-published Manual of Basic Techniques in Insect Histology.

Book Features:* 32 Pages, 7 inches x 9 inches* Ages 8-13, Grades 3-8 Leveled Readers, Lexile 500L* Simple, easy-to-read pages with vibrant images* Features exciting facts about mammals to engage early readers* Includes glossary words, after-reading questions, an extension activity, and a memory gameThe Magic Of Reading: Introduce your child to the magic of reading and animals with Dangerous.

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment.

Handbook of Major Palm Pests: Biology and Management contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the red palm weevil and the palm borer moth, two newly emergent invasive palm pests which are adversely affecting palm trees around the world.

The book includes current knowledge on Illicium verum (star anise) and Pimpinella anisum (aniseed), main commercial species rich in anetol.

This volume focuses and describes tools, assays, and techniques used to enhance the understanding of the role of auxins and cytokinins.

This book focuses on the morphology, exine ornamentation and the associated evolutionary trends of crabapple pollen and anatomical developmental patterns.

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.

First published in 1985: This book presents a comprehensive survey of progress and current knowledge of those biochemical processes with greater potential for the development of superior cultivars: Photosynthesis, photorespiration, nitrate assimilation, biological nitrogen fixation, and starch and protein synthesis.

Every researcher or diagnostician working with reptiles has faced the challenge of identifying reptile hemoparasites and then determining whether they are of importance or merely incidental.

Intensive and extensive cultivation of grapes (Vitis vinifera L.

Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population.

Plant Genome Analysis presents outstanding analyses of technologies, as well as explanations of molecular technology as it pertains to agriculture.

One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature.

This witty, quirky, colourfully illustrated and fact-filled book features some of the most absurd and flamboyant animals on the planet!

This book illustrates the importance and significance of bioinformatics in the field of agriculture.

A Flora of Southern California offers an in-depth exploration of the plant life in one of the most ecologically diverse regions in North America.

The volume focuses on novel and effective biological and biotechnological methods for managing major plant parasitic nematodes in economically important agricultural crops.

Written by an outstanding group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them, most notably nutrient over-enrichment from coastal watersheds and airsheds.

The book covers the latest development in the biosciences field covering key topics in crop improvement including 'omic approaches to improving sustainable crop production, advancement in marker technology, strategies in genetic manipulation, crop quality and sustainability and plant microbe interaction detailing on proven technologies to address critical issue for agricultural sustainability which are beneficial for researchers and students.

This book provides two basic concepts on plant propagation and value-added transplant production in a closed structure with artificial lighting: 1) photoautotrophic (sugar-free medium, photosynthetic or inorganic nutrition) micropropagation systems, and 2) closed transplant production systems with minimum resource consumption and environmental pollution.

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

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.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

This book brings together recent advances in the area of abiotic stress tolerance in various vegetables, fruit crops, plantation crops and tuber crops.

This new volume provides a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to boost the quality of agriculture produce, to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food for everyone by 2050.

This guidebook is organized into three easy-to-read sections: animals, plants, and the natural features of Alaska which is the largest and most varied of all the states in America.

Health care delivery has become institutionalized.

Here, researchers review the latest breakthroughs in protein research.

Snakes are creatures of mystery, arousing fear in many people but fascination in a few.

In the last 50 years, classical breeding has played a significant role in achieving higher crop productivity, but major crops have reached a plateau in their yield potential.

Pflanzen bilden die Grundlage unseres Lebens.

Nanotechnology is an emerging, pivotal platform for enhancing plant health.

Scientists have sent messages into space hoping that aliens will find them.

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus.

Biotic stresses cause yield loss of 31-42% in crops in addition to 6-20% during post-harvest stage.

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems.

The first comprehensive scholarly treatment of bed bugs since 1966 This book updates and expands on existing material on bed bugs with an emphasis on the worldwide resurgence of both the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L.

Progress in plant biology relies on the quantification, analysis and mathematical modeling of data over different time and length scales.

Make a rocket from a plastic bottle, a hovercraft from a balloon, and a drag racer from cardboard!

California, the third largest state in the U.

This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards.

, Global demand for wheat, rice, corn, and other essential grains is expected to steadily rise over the next twenty years.

What do you know about the sense of taste?

These volumes are an exhaustive source of information on the control and regulation of flowering.

This is an important and authoritative review of foraminiferal ecology, the first for over a decade.

From the ginormous, extinct Prototaxites to the web of mycelium stretching beneath our feet, fungi have always been all around us.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of research on state-of-the-art genomics on the most advanced model tree species including genome assemblies, insights into genomic structural features and methylation patterns, whole-genome resources used for population genomics and adaptation to climate, enabled breeding vs.