Botany and plant sciences

This book is designed to popularize Quinoa cereal among both scientific and food industry.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of principles, conventional and molecular approaches used to develop improved varieties and hybrids of major crops in light of their origin, evolution, taxonomy, production and productivity and need by human civilization.

This book deals with the most emerging aspects of algal research with special reference to microalgae viz; diversity, mutations, genomics and metagenomics study, eco-physiology, culturing, microalgae for food and feed, biofuel production, harvesting of microalgae, separation, and purification of biochemicals, techno-economical assessment, microalgal biotechnology, algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization.

This book discusses molecular approaches in plant as response to environmental factors, such as variations in temperature, water availability, salinity, and metal stress.

This book gives an overview of the diverse marine fauna and flora of Japan and includes practical guides for investigating the biology and ecology of marine organisms.

The book is a comprehensive compilation of applied knowledge for developing resistant varieties to all the major biotrophs, hemibiotrophs and necrotrophs pathogens of crucifers through the use of latest biotechnological approaches.

This book is a comprehensive account of recent advances in the endophytic research.

This book covers all aspects of deficiency of essential elements and excess of toxic ones in crop plants.

Written by a former Olympiad student, Wang Jinhui, and a Physics Olympiad national trainer, Bernard Ricardo, Competitive Physics delves into the art of solving challenging physics puzzles.

This book reviews the history and development of rhizobial ecology (diversity, function and interactions with the biotic and abiotic environments), evolution (genome diversification, systematics of symbiotic genes) and application.

Nature has consistently provided human beings with bioactive compounds that can be used directly as drugs or indirectly as drug leads.

Mangroves are one of the most productive and biologically important blue-carbon ecosystems across the coastal intertidal zone of earth.

This book focuses on in vitro techniques and challenges of producing nutraceutical compounds  from plant cells.

This book sheds new light on ways to alleviate biotic and abiotic stress in plants, using signaling molecules of plant growth promotory rhizobacteria.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

The book discusses the complex interactions between plants and their associated microbial communities.

This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the microstructure characteristics of plant fibers and the manufacturing process, interface characteristics, mechanical behaviors and physical properties of plant fiber reinforced composites, as well as their engineering demonstration applications.

This book, consisting of 8 chapters, describes the state-of-the-art technological progress and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in precision agriculture.

For the majority of the world's population, medicinal and aromatic plants are the most important source of life-saving drugs.

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

This edited book deals with plant genetic resources and their status, availability, and ecological niche in natural habitat.

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

This book highlights different natural products that are derived from the plants and microbes that have shown potential as the lead compounds against infectious diseases and cancer.

Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations.

High-quality seed is essential for healthy crops and greater agricultural productivity.

This book collects comprehensive information on taxonomy, morphology, distribution, wood anatomy, wood properties and uses.

This book provides essential information on the morphology, biology, phytochemistry, pharmaceutical prospects, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, and taxonomy of Paris (Melanthiaceae), a morphologically distinctive plant genus with great economic importance.

This book review and rearrange the research data of Triticeae published over hundreds of years, applying a modern scientific approach.

As renewable energy sources, biofuels have tremendous potential to replace fossil fuels in future energy scenarios, offering green alternative energy sources.

This book is an advanced textbook and a reference book for the post-graduate plant-breeding students and the plant breeders.

This book covers the important diseases and pests of potato which are of global significance.

This contributed book is based on the current status of biodiversity in India, issues and challenges faced by the authorities involved in conservation efforts, and the imperative role of various direct and indirect stakeholders in biodiversity conservation.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

Arsenic is likely the most talked-about metalloid in the modern world because of its toxic effects on both animal and plants.

This edited book volume aims to bringing out a comprehensive collection of latest information and developments on the management of biotic stresses by the use of rhizospheric microbes across the globe.

This edited book elucidates the evolution of plant virus, genomic structure, diversity, plant-virus interaction, subcellular movement etc.

This book discusses the fundamental concepts of the green synthesis of nanoparticles and presents the latest advances in this emerging field.

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Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21st century.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries.

Plant breeding has the potential to improve quality of life for millions of people, and to harmoniously link agriculture, societies and ecosystems.

This edited book highlights the latest information on the use of nanotechnology, satellite technology, and biotechnological tools in pest management.

This book covers the current research on the plant-based tropane alkaloids (TA) and TA-bearing plants.

This book summarizes the advanced computational methods for mapping high-density linkages and quantitative trait loci in the rice genome.

Surface bio-contamination has become a severe problem that contributes to outbreaks of community acquired and nosocomial infections through contiguous fomite transmission of diseases.

This book covers the use and dynamics of potassium fertilizers in agriculture.

This book discusses CRISPR/Cas- one of the most powerful tools available to scientists for genome editing.

This seventh volume describes 247 species of 9 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.