Botany and plant sciences

An ever-growing roster of model organisms is a hallmark of 21st century Developmental Biology.

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide.

This book offers a thorough examination of how drought stress impacts various facets of a plant's physiology, ecology, and agricultural systems.

Major portion of the planet earth is covered by seas and oceans representing 96.

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values.

For the past decade, there has been success in using conventional map-based strategies in identification and cloning of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in model plant species including tomato and Arabidopsis.

This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies.

This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.

Wheat Diseases and Their Management addresses biotic and abiotic constrains to wheat production.

Buckwheat: Forgotten crop for the Future offers an overview of this globally important crop, including its history, origin and its importance to functional food sector.

Mit der wissenschaftlichen Erschließung der tropischen Hochgebirge hat sich auch das Interesse der Botaniker aller Disziplinen, Morphologen, Systematiker, Pflanzengeographen, Pflanzenphysiologen der dortigen, z.

With a history as ancient as any cultivated fruit, many believe the fig has been with us even longer than the pomegranate.

West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic insight, and ecological detail.

How do you record the wildlife in a wood?

Published ecological information on Latin American coasts is scarce, despite the growing need for a comprehensive examination of coastal processes on a global scale.

Estimating evapotranspiration (ET) has been one of the most critical research areas in agriculture because of water scarcity, the growing population, and climate change.

This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.

This second edition provides up-to-date and new chapters covering the most important widely-used techniques in plant stress tolerance, including cutting-edge strategies, in a manner that ensures effective results.

Isoprenoids are important in primary and secondary metabolism.

In 1971, Dr.

Alternating between topic discussions and hands-on laboratory experiments that range from the in vitro flowering of roses to tissue culture of ferns, Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises, Second Edition, addresses the most current principles and methods in plant tissue culture research.

Discover the extraordinary role of plants in modern forensics, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching.

Agriculture is facing unprecedented challenges including climate change, declining arable land, and a growing global population.

This volume is the first publication of its kind to provide a fully comprehensive and detailed approach to the survey of microbial associations in soil: their structure and function in relation to soil fertility and environment protection.

In 2002 the 100th anniversary of the publication on "e;Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen"e; by Gottlieb Haberlandt was celebrated.

Although a few reviews have appeared on pollen during 1971- 1975, they are confined to certain specialized aspects of pollen, and thus there has been a need for a comprehensive account covering many, if not all aspects of pollen.

The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

This book focuses on the different compounds (polyphenols, sterols, alkaloids terpenes) that arise from the secondary metabolism of plants and fungi and their importance for research and industry.

This is the first of the set of three volumes in the Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, that will cover the area of the hormonal regulation of plant growth and development.

Woody plants belong to various taxonomic groups, which are heterogeneous in morphology, physiology, and geographic distribution.

This is the first book on global agromining/phytomining technology.

This book presents up-to-date information on foxtail millet genomics, with a particular focus on its agronomic importance, genome architecture, marker development, evolutionary and diversity studies, comparative genomics and stress biology.

Flowers are universally admired.

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

Fungi belonging to the genera Trichoderma and Gliocladium are soil- bourne saprophytes which have been used for industrial and agricultural applications for decades.

Contributors ix Chapter Introduction: The Challenge of Flowering Plant History David Winship Taylor and Leo J.

A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past.

In the dynamic realm of digital agriculture, the integration of big data acquisition platforms has sparked both curiosity and enthusiasm among researchers and agricultural practitioners.

Lipids in Photosynthesis provides readers with a comprehensive view of the structure, function and genetics of lipids in plants, algae and bacteria, with special emphasis on the photosynthetic apparatus in thylakoid membranes.

Rice is a vitally important staple food for almost half of the world's population.

There has been a large increase in the commercial use of integrated crop/pest management methods for pest and disease control on a wide range of crops throughout the world since the first edition of this book.

Have you ever seen a germ up close?

The bioactive compounds of plants have world-wide applications in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and food industry with a huge market.

With the continuous decline of the area under cultivation and the increase in human population, one of the major challenges is to increase crop productivity to feed everyone.

Ecometabolomics: Metabolic Fluxes versus Environmental Stoichiometry focuses on the interaction between plants-particularly plants that have vigorous secondary metabolites-and the environment.

The present work covers many aspects of plant nematode management using organic strategies.