Botany category: 1702 books
by Helen Ougham, Howard Thomas, Susan Waaland
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
A stunning landmark co-publication between the American Society of Plant Biologists and Wiley-Blackwell.
The Molecular Life of Plants presents students with an innovative, integrated approach to plant science. It looks at the processes and mechanisms that underlie each stage of plant life and...
by Jean-Claude Kader, Michel Delseny
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny and supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 50th volume, the series features a wide range of reviews by recognized...
Applied Plant Cell Biology
Cellular Tools and Approaches for Plant Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The aim of this volume is to merge classical concepts of plant cell biology with the recent findings of molecular studies and real-world applications in a form attractive not only to specialists in the realm of fundamental research, but also to breeders and plant producers. Four sections deal with...
by Beverley Glover
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Flowers are the beautiful and complex reproductive structures of the angiosperms, one of the most diverse and successful groups of living organisms. The underlying thesis of this book is that to fully understand plant development (and why flowers differ in shape, structure and colour), it is necessary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a unique process by means of which a vegetative/somatic plant cell transforms into an embryo. This in vitro embryogeny has immense fundamental and practical applications. The SE process is complex and is controlled by a variety of external and internal triggers. This...
Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 1
Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Genetic engineering and biotechnology along with conventional breeding have played an important role in developing superior cultivars by transferring economically important traits from distant, wild and even unrelated species to the cultivated varieties which otherwise could not have been possible...
Petunia
Evolutionary, Developmental and Physiological Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Petunia belongs to the family of the Solanaceae and as such is closely related to important crop species like tomato, potato, eggplant, pepper and tobacco. With around 35 species described it is one of the smaller genera and among those there are two groups of species that make up the majority of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Many exciting discoveries in recent decades have contributed new knowledge to our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate various stages of plant growth and development. Such information, coupled with advances in cell and molecular biology, is fundamental to crop improvement using biotechnological...
Alien Introgression in Wheat
Cytogenetics, Molecular Biology, and Genomics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This book provides an overview of the latest advancements in the field of alien introgression in wheat. The discovery and wide application of molecular genetic techniques including molecular markers, in situ hybridization, and genomics has led to a surge in interspecific and intergeneric hybridization...
by A.C. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This text not only explores the breeding problems for Agaricus bisporus, the button mushroom, but approaches the subject in the context of the large range of edible mushrooms which are currently under commercial cultivation worldwide. From the background and general objectives of culture collection...
Plant Biology and Biotechnology
Volume II: Plant Genomics and Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Plant genomics and biotechnology have recently made enormous strides, and hold the potential to benefit agriculture, the environment and various other dimensions of the human endeavor. It is no exaggeration to claim that the twenty-first century belongs to biotechnology. Knowledge generation in this...
Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
This book provides comprehensive information on the latest tools and techniques of molecular genetics and their applications in crop improvement. It thoroughly discusses advanced techniques used in molecular markers, QTL mapping, marker-assisted breeding, and molecular cytogenetics.
by Fabio Fornara
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 72nd volume, the series features several reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology...
Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
Volume 2. Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Our lives and well being intimately depend on the exploitation of the plant genetic resources available to our breeding programs. Therefore, more extensive exploration and effective exploitation of plant genetic resources are essential prerequisites for the release of improved cultivars. Accordingly,...