Botany category: 1702 books
Plants of Oceanic Islands
Evolution, Biogeography, and Conservation of the Flora of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Bringing together results from over 30 years of research on the Juan Fernández Archipelago off the coast of Chile, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the plants of these special islands. Despite its remote setting in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the Juan Fernández Archipelago is in many...
by Govind Singh Saharan, Naresh Mehta, Prabhu Dayal Meena
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The book reviews key developments in downy mildew research, including the disease, its distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment; the pathogen, its taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, survival and perpetuation, spore germination, infection,...
by Manjit Singh Dhooria
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Acarology **- **the study of mites and ticks, is a subdiscipline of Zoology, and is many times considered in the field of Entomology (the study of insects). Mites and ticks are distributed throughout the world and inhabit almost every ecosystem (both terrestrial and aquatic) including grassland...
Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use
The Journeys of an Australian Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. In Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologist and ethnobotanist, that span the temperate, arid and tropical zones of...
Second Growth
The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be...
Shades of Green
An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe.
Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia....
by Aisha Saleem Khan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This book provides researchers and advanced students associated with plant and pharmaceutical sciences with comprehensive information on medicinal trees, including their identification, morphological characteristics, traditional and economic uses, along with the latest research on their medicinal...
by Sukanya Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Trees have a subtle language to which animals have been responding over millennia. A communication system that the plants use to compete and even wage ruthless wars. This book is an attempt to decode this warm, but chillingly efficient system.
Breeding in a World of Scarcity
Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Section “Forage Crops and Amenity Grasses” of Eucarpia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This book includes papers presented at the 2015 meeting of the Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section of Eucarpia. The theme of the meeting “Breeding in a world of scarcity” was elaborated in four sessions: (1) scarcity of natural resources, (2) scarcity of breeders, (3) scarcity of land and...
by Shizhong Xu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Statistical genomics is a rapidly developing field, with more and more people involved in this area. However, a lack of synthetic reference books and textbooks in statistical genomics has become a major hurdle on the development of the field. Although many books have been published recently in bioinformatics,...
Plant, Soil and Microbes
Volume 2: Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The interactions between the plant, soil, and microbes are very complex in nature and may be antagonistic, mutualistic, or synergistic, depending upon the types of microorganisms and their association with the plant and soil. The multi-trophictactics are involved in these types of interactions to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The Argentinean Patagonia offers a great diversity of scarcely explored environments suitable for the bioprospection of biotechnological relevant microorganisms. This book provides readers with a concise and clearly illustrated treatment of outstanding topics of Patagonian microbiology and biotechnology....
Fortress Plant
How to survive when everything wants to eat you
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other plants. But plants are master survivors, having coped with changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Biofuel Crop Sustainability brings together the basic principles of agricultural sustainability and special stipulations for biofuels, from the economic and ecological opportunities and challenges of sustainable biofuel crop production to the unique characteristics of particular crops which make them...