Botany and plant sciences

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

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This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical.

This book deals with the practical aspects in regeneration of field crop plants; regeneration of pasture plants; and regeneration of horticultural plants.

The highly structured eucaryotic cell with its complex division of biochemical labour requires a distinct protein complement in each cellular structure and compartment.

Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture.

Nonlinear Physics of Ecosystems introduces the concepts and tools of pattern formation theory and demonstrates their utility in ecological research using problems from spatial ecology.

We hear roses are hard to grow.

The new research described in this book demonstrates that the interplay of a host of founding conditions can frequently produce profound differences in population expansion rates and maintenance of genetic diversity in contrasting populations that differ, often only to slight degrees, in initial founding conditions.

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's beetlesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.

Expand your students' knowledge of anatomy and physiology and how it applies to practical treatments with the new edition of this bestselling book by Helen McGuinness.

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first-and most successful-British men of science to become a full-time professional.

This second edition provides new and updated methods detailing techniques and state-of-the-art approaches on the structure and function of plant endoplasmic reticulum (ER).

This volume of the Handbook of Zoology summarizes "e;small"e; groups of animals across the animal kingdom.

This book presents recent research work on Biosaline Agriculture presented during First International Forum on Biosaline Agriculture in Laayoune, Morocco from May 3rd to May 4th 2019.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 163, continues to be recognized as a leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Explores key issues in biocultural diversity, examining species and sites considered to be sacred and their implications for conservation.

Pteridophytes, Variously Called As Primitive Land Plants, Pioneer Vascular Plants Or Early Land Plants, Represent A Group Of Plants In Turmoil.

This book provides a comprehensive description of phosphate solubilizing microorganisms and highlights methods for the use of microphos in different crop production systems.

This edited book highlights the plant and cell/organ culture systems, and environmental and genetic transformation-based modulation of biochemical pathways.

Commentaries in Plant Science is a compilation of reviews of recent developments in pure and applied plant science.

This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Apocynaceae, a family of flowering plants that includes trees and shrubs, found in tropical East Africa.

Get the latest sustainable agriculture practices and keep an eye on the future Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture: A New Social Contract explores the challenges faced by today's farmers and ranchers to provide practical strategies to develop a twenty-first century system of sustainable agriculture that is economically sound, environmentally compatible, and socially acceptable.

Plant growth is regulated by developmental programmes that can be modified by environmental cues acting through endogenous signaling molecules including plant hormones.

Plant polyphenols are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of natural products.

The genus Aspergillus has a worldwide distribution and is one of the most common of all groups of fungi.

This book presents the ways and means to switch on plant immune signaling systems using PAMP-PIMP-PRR signaling complex for crop disease management.

Plant-Based Functional Foods and Phytochemicals: From Traditional Knowledge to Present Innovation covers the importance of the therapeutic health benefits of phytochemicals derived from plants.

Presented here is an analysis of plant development and plant metabolism using the tools of genetics and molecular biology, such as mutant analysis, mutation tagging, mapping using polymorphic characters and basic molecular biology techniques.

In recent years it has become increasingly clear that chemical interactions play a fundamental role in aquatic habitats and have far-reaching evolutionary and ecological consequences.

Since the beginning of the space race, robots have helped astronauts learn about space.

Christel has been intrigued by the phenomenon of invasions since her studies as an undergraduate student in botany at Goettingen University where she took several of my courses and where I supervised her diploma thesis.

This volume describes the more relevant secondary metabolites of different fungi with current information on their biosynthesis and molecular genetics.

Nitric Oxide in Developing Plant Stress Resilience presents a strong focus on genetics and molecular mechanisms, examining crosstalk with other signaling molecules and the role this plays in the alleviation of oxidative damage.

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Microorganisms comprise the greatest genetic diversity in the natural ecosystem, and characterization of these microbes is an essential step towards discovering novel products or understanding complex biological mechanisms.

This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of modern strategies in fruit crop breeding in the era of climate change and global warming.

Ascochyta blights consistently affect large areas of grain legume production (pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean) in all countries where they are cultivated.

This volume provides protocols that revolve around three pillars of progress in the plant genomics field: genotypes, phenotypes, and the molecular processes in between.

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After Earth, Mars is the most explored planet in our solar system.

The term phytomedicine was coined by French physician Henri Leclerc in 1913.

As the sustainable agriculture movement has grown, there has been a dramatic increase in the production of horticultural crops in greenhouses worldwide.

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Plant Biotechnology and Development is the first of a series of publications designed to provide readers with an overview of current topics in plant molecular biology.

The Flax Genome is a comprehensive compilation of most recent studies focused on reference genome, genetic resources and molecular diversity, breeding, QTL mapping, gene editing tools, functional genomics and metabolomics, molecular breeding via genomic selection, and genomic resources.

Phtosynthesis is the process, by which plants make their food in their green leaves with the help of carbon dioxide, minerals, and water; in the presence of light.