Botany and plant sciences

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

This book presents research on volatiles produced by microbes and plants along with their biotechnological implications for sustainable agriculture.

This book is an up-to-date reference on phosphorus nutrition in plants.

This book provides an overview of antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes and their role in the mechanisms of signaling and cellular tolerance under stress in plant systems.

Practise and prepare for AQA A-level Physics with hundreds of topic-based questions and one complete set of exam practice papers designed to strengthen knowledge and prepare students for the exams.

Hormonal Cross-Talk, Plant Defense and Development: Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change focuses specifically on plants and their interaction to auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene, abscisic acid, jasmonates, brassinosteroids, strigolactones, and the potential those interactions offer for improved plant health and production.

The 18 chapters making up In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants are divided into two sections.

Mangroves are basically salt tolerant forest ecosystems found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical inter-tidal regions.

This book is a review of the recent literature on the key scientific and technical subjects of fertilization management in vegetable crops.

Concern about the environmental consequences of the widespread use of pesticides has increased, and evidence of pesticide-resistant virus vectors have continued to emerge.

Harmonious, integrated functioning of the whole plant system requires that its various cells, tissues and organs should be able to communicate with each other, transferring a range of information on environmental conditions, physiological and microbial stresses etc.

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem.

Advances in Plant Disease Management: Volume I: Fundamental and Basic Research is an invaluable compilation for researchers/students/stakeholders/policymakers in agriculture.

This edited volume is the first book that explicitly explains the link between the extraordinarily small-scale microbial processes and the growth and yield attributes of millet crops.

Current phase-out schedules of the production and emission of CFC's indicate that chlorine loading in the stratosphere is not yet at its maximum.

Horticultural Therapy Methods: Connecting People and Plants in Health Care, Human Services, and Therapeutic Programs was the first text to describe the processes and techniques used to provide horticultural therapy interventions, and the rationale for their use.

Man-made carcinogens, natural genotoxic agents in the environment, as well as ionizing and ultraviolet radiation can damage DNA and are a constant threat to genome integrity.

This fully revised translation of the world-renowned German edition covers the complete and modern knowledge of plant biochemistry.

This volume explores the latest advances in high-throughput phenotyping to screen milling quality, cooking and nutritional quality in breeding material, and simplifying grain quality screening in germplasm.

The new edition of this authoritative text provides an interdisciplinary treatise of all aspects of the interactions between light and the living world.

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems.

In this second volume in the series The Retroviridae, the readers are treated to up-to-date reviews on these viruses, which are found in a variety of animal species.

This book has combined information on the most recent agricultural practices and breeding methods for ornamental crops.

Honeybees are an important link in our food chain because they are major pollinators of food crops.

This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of research on vegetable plants associated with root-galls disease caused by root-knot nematodes (RKNs), Meloidogyne spp.

This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision.

With a high diversity of vegetation in Iran, over 8000 plant species are in existence.

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

Flying insects hold one of the great keys to survival: wings.

The research that has culminated in the pUblication being introduced .

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of applications of plant molecular farming in various fields including agriculture, industry and medicine, using different plant/crop systems as bioreactors for the bulk production of products of interest.

Plants possess a range of potential cellular mechanisms that may be involved in the detoxification of heavy metals and thus tolerance to metal stress.

High-resolution images of phytoplankton cells such as diatoms or desmids, which are useful for monitoring water quality, can now be provided by digital microscopes, facilitating the automated analysis and identification of specimens.

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

The book illustrates the use of putative microbial agents which provide good protection to the plant from biotic pathogens attack.

Insects are often overlooked because they are small or ignored because they are deemed trivial, and many are dismissed as nuisance pests.

This book focuses on quinoa, providing background information on its history, summarizing recent genetic and genomic advances, and offering directions for future research.

This book is about the regeneration of plants from seed under field conditions.

Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society examines the challenges for developing integrated approaches to the management of agricultural ecosystems.

Wild edible plants are native species that grow and reproduce naturally in their natural habitats without domestication.

Have you ever seen a magician make something disappear and question if anything could really just vanish?

Nanofertilizers and nanopesticides increase crop efficiency because of a several-fold increase in the surface-to-volume ratio of nano-forms of nutrients and their suitability to foliar application.

The series Methods in Plant Biochemistry provides an authoritative reference on current techniques in the various fields of plant biochemical research.

This publication comprises the proceedings of the first International Conference devoted to the structural roots of trees and woody plants.

This text reflects the immense current growth in interest in agroecology and changing approaches to it.