Botany category: 1702 books
Essential Plant Nutrients
Uptake, Use Efficiency, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book explores the agricultural, commercial, and ecological future of plants in relation to mineral nutrition. It covers various topics regarding the role and importance of mineral nutrition in plants including essentiality, availability, applications, as well as their management and control...
by Nand Kumar Fageria, Zhenli He, Virupax C. Baligar
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The world population is projected to reach nine billion by 2050, and in the coming years, global food demand is expected to increase by 50% or more. Higher crop productivity gains in the future will have to be achieved in developing countries through better natural resources management and crop improvement....
Biotechnological Approaches for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Conservation, Genetic Improvement and Utilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
For the majority of the world’s population, medicinal and aromatic plants are the most important source of life-saving drugs. Biotechnological tools represent important resources for selecting, multiplying and conserving the critical genotypes of medicinal plants.
In this regard, in-vitro...
Nitric Oxide in Plants
Occurrence, Function and Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book - the first published on this topic in plants - presents the reader with an overview of recent research on nitric oxide (NO) in plants, which, in view of its empirical interest and its growth regulatory potential, is in the forefront of scientific endeavor in plant science. Subject matter...
Seaweed Biology
Novel Insights into Ecophysiology, Ecology and Utilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, are among the most important primary producers and act as ecological engineers on rocky coasts of the world’s oceans. In addition to their extreme ecological importance they are also of high economic relevance. Complementing available textbooks with its more research-oriented...
by Kazutoshi Yabuki
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The association between plants and wind that first comes to mind might be plant damage from a strong wind such as a typhoon or monsoon. The winds this book will 1 discuss, however, are not this strong at all, but rather are only 2 m·s· or weaker, like a breeze that gently blows over a farming area....
Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests
A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book summarizes the latest information and the status quo of radish genome studies to stimulate innovations and improvements in breeding techniques and to promote further advances in the field.
Radish (Raphanus sativus) is a member of the Brassicaceae family and is cultivated worldwide....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Due to the advent of state-of-the-art technologies in the field of biotechnology, much progress has been achieved since the last decade. OMICS technologies are being extensively used to address various issues pertaining to agriculture. Recent advances in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book presents a selection of innovative postharvest management practices for vegetables. It covers technologies in harvesting, handling, and storage of vegetables, including strategies for low-temperature storage of vegetables, active and smart packaging of vegetables, edible coatings, application...
Sustainable Biological Systems for Agriculture
Emerging Issues in Nanotechnology, Biofertilizers, Wastewater, and Farm Machines
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Sustainable Biological Systems for Agriculture: Emerging Issues in Nanotechnology, Biofertilizers, Wastewater, and Farm Machines explores and introduces the use of nanotechnology, biofertilizers, and design of farm machines in agriculture. The contributions are from India, Africa and the USA; the...
Insect Pests of Stored Grain
Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Stored products of agriculture and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetles, 70 species of moths, and about 355 species of mites, causing huge quantitative and qualitative losses and insect contamination in food commodities. This is an important quality control problem. This...
by Peter Houghton, Amala Raman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
The biomass based energy sector, especially the one based on lignocellulosic sources such as switchgrass Miscanthus, forest residues and short rotation coppice, will play an important role in our drive towards renewable energy. The biomass feedstock production (BFP) subsystem provides the necessary...