Provides information on plant cytogenetics for students, instructors, and researchers. This book covers such topics as: classical cytogenetics of plant genomes; plant chromosome structure; functional, molecular cytology; and, genome dynamics. It reveals the central role of plant cytogenetics in plant genetics and genomics.
Providing crucial information for the expanding ornamental plant industry, leading researchers in the field compile comprehensive and step-wise protocols for rapid plant multiplication and in vitro storage of major commercially viable ornamental plants.
A comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface chemistry of the Earth. It focuses on biochemical and biophysical advances and the molecular biological techniques.
Updated for its fourth edition, this text offers comprehensive insight into the laws governing the development, vital capacity and adaptability of plants. This illustrated book focuses on the ways the different plant species and functional types react in various locations and climatic zones.
Pinpointing a scientific question that has gone unanswered, Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants explores the complex role calcium plays in plant life's ability to perceive, respond, and adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions.
Model studies focus experimental investigations to improve our understanding and performance of systems. Focusing on crop modelling, this book provides an introduction to the concepts of crop development, growth, and yield, with step-by-step outlines to each topic, suggested exercises and simple equations.
The plant hormone ethylene is one of the most important, being one of the first chemicals to be determined as a naturally-occurring growth regulator and influencer of plant development. It was also the first hormone for which significant evidence was found for the presence of receptors.
Provides information on synthesis of plant hormones, how their concentrations are regulated, and how they modulate various plant processes. This book details how plants sense and tolerate such factors as drought, salinity, and cold temperature, factors that limit plant productivity on earth. It also explains how plants sense light and gravity.
This book sees expert researchers explore current issues and methodologies in this expanding field, addressing areas of gene discovery and functional analysis with a focus on the sub-disciplines of genetic mapping, mRNA, protein and metabolite profiling.
The application of genomic markers is the mapping, diagnosis and eventual molecular cloning of loci and is of medical, biological of economic interest. The purpose of this manual is to provide new investigators in this area with an introduction and a basic practical description of how to proceed.
Research has greatly expanded our understanding of the sophisticated molecular network of responses which enable plants to develop, survive and propagate under a wide range of conditions. This book focuses on plant analysis and the proteins involved in signal transduction in order to aid with the modification of the protocols for other plants.
Various abiotic factors such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, low or high light intensity, and deficiency or toxic levels of nutrients have huge impacts on crop productivity. Offering reviews on dehydration, salinity, and cold tolerance as well as on oxidative stress, this title describes the identification of stress-regulated genes.
Mitochondria are critical organelles in the metabolic regulation of almost all eukaryotic organisms. Knowledge of their biochemistry and molecular biology in plants has been fuelled over recent years by the rapid progress made in genome sequencing and the ability to manipulate gene expression.
The fifth edition sets the standard for textbooks in the field, making plant physiology accessible to virtually every student. Taiz and Zeiger collaborate with a stellar group of contributing plant biologists to produce a current and authoritative volume that incorporates all the latest findings and 2 new chapters.
Shows you how to find, identify and cook a range of wild food, including nuts, seeds, roots, fruit, flowers, seaweed, fungi and plant leaves. This work helps you discover the joys of wild food, from berries to nuts to mushrooms. It offers tips on safely finding, identifying and cooking wild food without damaging the countryside.
Photoprotection in Plants aims to develop an integral view of optical screening-based photoprotection in microalgae and higher plants. The text describes key groups of pigments involved in the screening of components of solar radiation in microalgae and higher plants, and the patterns within plant cells and tissues.
Explores the physiology of the grapevine as it occurs around the world. This book addresses not only the specific issues and concerns of grapevines from regions around the world, but includes topics such as global climate change, water relations, temperature effect and more.
Gives an account of the scientific advances of Plant Nutrition by making reference to about 2000 publications. This title encompasses not only basic nutrition and physiology, but also practical aspects of plant nutrition involving fertilizer usage and crop production of direct importance to human nutrition.
This volume features a selection of newly written and illustrated reviews describing our contemporary knowledge of brassinosteroids. Incorporating both theoretical and practical aspects, the chapters aim to inspire future research and development in the field.
Below the soil surface, the rhizosphere is an interface among plant roots, soil microbes and fauna, and the soil itself, where biological as well as physico-chemical properties differ radically from those of bulk soil. This work establishes the links from small-scale processes in the rhizosphere to larger-scale belowground patterns and processes.
Curcurbits include cucumbers, gourds, muskmelons, pumpkins, squashes and watermelons. As with other works in the series, the aim of the book is to present the scientific principles that relate to the biology and production of these crops. It covers production in both greenhouses and the open field.
Understanding the humble seed is a vital goal in molecular biology. This volume, which includes key notes and implementation advice from leading researchers, covers all the latest methods and protocols, including some that have led to major advances.
This comprehensive update on plant lipid signaling covers the measurement, regulation and function of phospholipases, lipid kinases, lipid phosphatases, inositolpolphosphates, polyphosphoinositides, phosphatic acid, and other lipid signals such as oxylipins.
Species of Sphagnum that have a reputation among non-bryologists of being difficult to identify, yet the genus as a whole is of importance among bryophyte genera in defining communities. This title provides the identification key with line drawings that has been designed to be used by non-specialists to determine species of sphagnum in the field.
Studies fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination, dormancy and stomata function and transpiration.
Written for students going for A and AS Level core and modular courses in Biology, Human Biology and Social Biology, or for first year degree courses in life sciences this book explains plant physiology. It covers topics such as water uptake, photosynthesis, respiration, Enzymes and metabolism control, solute transport, and plant movements.
The production of reactive oxygen species in plants used to be thought harmful, but recent research shows ROS to be key regulators of plant metabolism, morphology and development. This book offers the latest in the field, highlighting new data and concepts.
This is the first book to focus solely on the plant plasma membrane. It describes the basic mechanisms that regulate all plasma membrane functions. It also describes plasma membrane transport activity and the signaling interactions at the plasma membrane.
Shows an integrated approach to the understanding of photosynthesis processes. Using mathematical modeling, this title describes processes from the biophysics of the interaction of light with pigment systems to the mutual interaction of individual plants and other organisms in canopies and large ecosystems, up to the global ecosystem issues.
A guide to understanding plant structure, offering plant scientists, plant biologists and horticulturalists in practice, academic life and in training a combination of a scientific text and photographs and drawings. It deals with the development and mature form of plants, focusing on structure at anatomical, histological and fine structure levels.
Features a range of reviews on various aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and ecology. This title describes developments in understanding of plant responses to drought and salinity in post-genomic and are evaluated by world wide- known experts.