Botany category: 1702 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes comprehensive examinations of the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development. Including dedicated chapters on the evolution and diversification of the lychee, it highlights its genetic makeup and reciprocal exogenous factors, addressing the narrow genetic...
Biomass and Bioenergy
Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Biomass obtained from agricultural residues or forest can be used to produce different materials and bioenergy required in a modern society. As compared to other resources available, biomass is one of the most common and widespread resources in the world. Thus, biomass has the potential to provide...
Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics
Volume 2: Epidemiology and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Around the globe, besides fungal and bacterial diseases, both virus and viroid diseases have acquired greater importance in the realm of plant pathology and call for effective management measures as they are responsible for heavy yield losses and are a matter of vital importance and concern to farmers,...
by Jean-Claude Kader, Michel Delseny
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
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...
Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants
Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways for abiotic stresses, light,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book reviews and synthesizes the recent advances in exploiting host plant resistance to insects, highlighting the role of molecular techniques in breeding insect resistant crops. It also provides an overview of the fascinating field of insect-plant relationships, which is fundamental to the study...
by Gideon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Featuring 250 of the region’s most common and interesting succulents, this is an accessible, user-friendly guide to identifying these increasingly popular plants. Colour photographs vividly portray all the species covered. Authoritative text describes key identification features, and distribution...
Flowering Plants. Eudicots
Santalales, Balanophorales
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the present volume taxonomic treatments including descriptions of and keys to the families and genera for the orders Santalales and Balanophorales are offered, the former group here comprising 12 families with 162 genera and about 2100 species, and the latter with the single family Balanophoraceae...
The Elms
Breeding, Conservation, and Disease Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Elms occur, both naturally and cultivated, throughout much of the temperate world. Because of their high tolerance to extreme growing conditions and their widespread distribution, elms have been widely planted in cities, towns and rural areas throughout North America and northern Europe. As such,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Genetic and molecular studies have recently come to dominate botanical research at the expense of more traditional morphological approaches. This broad introduction to modern flower systematics demonstrates the great potential that floral morphology has to complement molecular data in phylogenetic...
An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development
Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
A plant anatomy textbook unlike any other on the market today. Carol A. Peterson described the first edition as 'the best book on the subject of plant anatomy since the texts of Esau'. Traditional plant anatomy texts include primarily descriptive aspects of structure, this book not only provides a...
Floral Diagrams
An Aid to Understanding Flower Morphology and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Floral morphology remains the cornerstone for plant identification and studies of plant evolution. This guide gives a global overview of the floral diversity of the angiosperms through the use of detailed floral diagrams. These schematic diagrams replace long descriptions or complicated drawings as...
Plants and Health
New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and healthy minds and bodies. Authors...