Developmental biology

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

Bioactive compounds produced by natural sources, such as plants, microbes, endophytic fungi, etc.

This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding.

Phytochemistry is the branch of science that deals with the study of plant-derived chemicals or compounds, which are also known as phytochemicals or plant-derived secondary metabolites.

This book presents the life science experiments in a space microgravity environment conducted on board the SJ-10 recoverable satellite, which was launched on April 6th 2016 and recovered on April 18th 2016.

The entire range of the developmental process in plants is regulated by a shift in the hormonal concentration, tissue sensitivity and their interaction with the factors operating around the plants.

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

Achieving zero hunger and food security is a top priority in the United Nations Development Goals (UNDGs).

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor in the context of the quality and productivity of many ornamental, horticultural and other economically important agricultural crops worldwide.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various types of perinatal stem cells.

The growing scale of plant-based chemicals for industrial use has generated considerable interest in developing methods to meet their desired production levels.

This book summarizes the potent effect of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) on the photoaging and cancer formation.

In the industrial era, the most important potential threat to crop production is abiotic stress, including toxic metal/metalloid stress.

This book is aimed at generating an updated reservoir of scientific endeavors undertaken to unravel the complicated yet intriguing topic of neurodegeneration.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of plant physiology for undergraduate and graduate students.

This book provides cutting-edge studies and technologies using small fishes, including zebrafish, medaka, and other fishes as new model animals for molecular biology, developmental biology, and medicine.

This book describes the nature of aging, age-related disorders, and the molecular principles of emerging strategies for anti-aging interventions, while also discussing the discovery of targets for geroprotective drugs.

This book provides detailed and comprehensive mechanistic insights of the various risk factors that lead to the ischemic stroke and the novel therapeutic interventions against it.

Recent advances in stem cell biology, nanotechnology and gene therapy have opened new avenues for therapeutics.

Conogethes is a group of moths distributed in Austral-Asian region from India to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

Most crop plants grow in environments that are suboptimal, which prevents the plants from attaining their full genetic potential for growth and reproduction.

Plant biotechnology is a most interesting branch for academicians and researchers in recent past.

This book presents and discusses recent scientific progress on Cell and Stem Cell Engineering.

The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic and biotic stresses; plant responses to these stresses are equally complex.

This book provides an overview of current knowledge, ideas and trends in the field of induced acclimation of plants to environmental challenges.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology and the effects of nanoparticles on agricultural systems, their interactions with plants as well as their potential applications as fertilizers and pesticides.

This book offers a comprehensive compilation of biotic and abiotic factors that affect lychee production and commercialization.

This book reviews three-dimensional (3D) stem cell culture and proof of concept for organ regeneration.

This book discusses the two different cellular approaches that are pursued in regenerative medicine: cell therapy and tissue engineering.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

This book covers recent advances in all aspects of bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) for stroke treatment, while also providing comprehensive information on human clinical trials and animal models of stroke.

This book summarizes the development of highly tolerant cultivars via plant breeding, genomics, and proteomic approaches.

This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved.

This book will focus on the differentiation and regulation of subsets of CD4+ T cells.

The functional characterization of a key enzyme in the phosphatidylinositol (PI) signaling pathway in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the focus of the research summarised in this thesis.

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings.

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology.

This volume explores the latest developments in a novel area of molecular biology and a hot topic in the field of oncology: cancer stem cells.

There is hardly an area of research developing so quickly and raising so many promises as stem cell research.

Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into all types of cells within the body, thus have great therapeutic potential for regenerative medicine to treat complicated disorders, like Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

This book provides an overview of the role and function of regulatory RNAs that lack protein-coding potential in key reproductive tissues.

This book features the most cutting-edge work from the world's leading laboratories in this field and provides practical methods for differentiating pluripotent stem cells into hematopoietic lineages in the blood system.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the properties of various stem cell types, the mechanisms of their behaviors and their potential clinical application.

This is the thirteenth volume in a series which presents current understanding of stem cells and cancer stem cells.

Phosphatases, such as TNAP are fundamental in regulating the roles of cellular, and consequently numerous body functions.

Cell signalling lies at the heart of many biological processes and currently is the focus of intense research interest.

The objectives of this volume are to present an up-to-date (literature survey up to 2001) account of the biology of Artemia focusing particularly upon the major advances in knowledge and understanding achieved in the last fifteen or so years and emphasising the operational and functional linkage between the biological phenomena described and the ability of this unusual animal to thrive in extreme environments.

Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock.