Botany category: 1702 books
Plant Genetic Engineering
Towards the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry by generating transgenic varieties with altered properties. This is likely to change farming practice and reduce the potential negative impact of plant production on the environment....
Lime-trees and Basswoods
A Biological Monograph of the Genus Tilia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Lime trees (Tilia spp.) are widely distributed and locally important members of northern temperate broad-leaved forests. In marked contrast to the largely uniform morphology of the genus its taxonomic treatment has become increasingly confused and controversial, with over one hundred species and numerous...
by William Louis Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For many years orchids have been among the most popular of ornamental plants, with thousands of species and hybrids cultivated worldwide for the diversity, beauty, and intricacy of their flowers. This book is the eagerly-awaited result of over 30 years of research into orchid anatomy by one of the...
Woody Plants of Utah
A Field Guide with Identification Keys to Native and Naturalized Trees, Shrubs, Cacti, and Vines
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
A comprehensive guide that includes a vast range of species and plant communities and employs thorough, original keys. Based primarily on vegetative characteristics, the keys don't require that flowers or other reproductive features be present, like many plant guides. And this guide's attention to...
Paleobotany
The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic time, how organisms are preserved in the rock record, and how organisms are studied and interpreted and takes the student through all...
Dynamical Paleoclimatology
Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution...
by George Acquaah
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
To respond to the increasing need to feed the world's population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants. The strategies used to produce these are increasingly based...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
There are approximately 500 different soil varieties in Malaysia, most is residual soil and coastal alluvial soil. This book presents a comprehensive overview of various aspects of soils in Malaysia. It covers topics including climate; flora and fauna; geology and hydrology; land use changes for agriculture;...
by John H. Montgomery, Thomas Roy Crompton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference. This up-to-date volume was inspired by the need for a combination of the material in both references, together with the large number of research publications...
Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops
Vol. 1 Concepts and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in developing new breeding strategies has been made over the last few...
Wild Relatives of Cultivated Plants in India
A Reservoir of Alternative Genetic Resources and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the wild relatives of crops and cultivated species found in India, covering their distribution, phylogenetic relationships with cultivated species, traits that are of economic and breeding value, and the perceived threats. It highlights the opportunities...
by K. Sahayaraj, R. Balasubramanian
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This eye-opening book focuses on the development of techniques to mass-produce reduviid predators and important generalist predators, an endeavor that won’t prove sufficient if the cost of commercialization is prohibitive. Advancing mass production to the level of economic feasibility is critical,...
Drought Stress in Maize (Zea mays L.)
Effects, Resistance Mechanisms, Global Achievements and Biological Strategies for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This book focuses on early germination, one of maize germplasm most important strategies for adapting to drought-induced stress. Some genotypes have the ability to adapt by either reducing water losses or by increasing water uptake. Drought tolerance is also an adaptive strategy that enables crop...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book comprehensively introduces stripe rust disease, its development and its integral control. Covering the biology, genetics, genome, and functional genomics of the pathogen, it also discusses host and non-host resistance, their interactions and the epidemiology of the disease. It is intended...