Botany

An eminent botanist and natural historian, George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922) wrote a number of books on plant life in the British Isles. First published in 1902, this manual explores the characteristics and uses of one of the most abundant and versatile...

The production of rice has increased considerably in recent years due to the release of improved varieties and the adoption of better fertilization practices. Nevertheless, the production and use of inorganic N fertilizer involves costly investments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183568654Author Shubhrata R. MishraFormat HardbackImprint Discovery Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Discovery Publishing Pvt.Ltd

Modem Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was fIrst introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1. the dependence of scientifIc progress in biology on the improvement of existing and the introduction of new...

First published in 1922, as the second edition of a 1903 original, this book was written by the British naturalist and clergyman Leonard Jenyns (1800-93), later known as Leonard Blomefield. The text was edited by Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925), the son...

After the death of the younger Carl Linnaeus in 1783, the entirety of the Linnean collections, including the letters received by the elder Linnaeus from naturalists all over Europe, was purchased by the English botanist James Edward Smith (1759-1828),...

Robert Hogg (1818-97) was a British nurseryman and an early secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society: a prize medal is named in his honour. Born in Berwickshire, Hogg trained in medicine at Edinburgh before following his father into fruit tree...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960998002Author Rachael BushFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint September Roberts LLCPublisher September Roberts LLCWeight(grams) 308g

This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) accounts for about 60% of the...

This volume is based on a workshop on "Population Biology of. Plants The Interfaces (Genetics, Physiology, Demography, Biogeography)", with a specific profile on "Diversification of Plant Populations in relation to Modes of Reproduction...

The bibliography includes papers in al I fields of photosynthesis research - from stu- dies of model biochemical and biophysical systems of the photosynthesis mechanism to primary production studied by the so-cal led growth analysis. In addition to...

Reprinted from Kew Bulletin vol. 37, part 2, 1982. Contains 10 photographs and five line drawings.Book InformationISBN 9781842461259Author Phillip CribbFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Kew PublishingPublisher Royal Botanic GardensWeight(grams) 83g

This book offers low-cost and rapid molecular assays for the characterization of mutant plant germplasm. Detailed protocols are provided for the desiccation of plant tissues; the extraction of high-quality DNA for downstream applications; the extraction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489949912Author Robert C. RomansFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams)...

This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India. Solega TEK is shown to be a complex, inter-related network of detailed observations of natural phenomena, well-reasoned and often highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632396594Author Molly IsmayFormat HardbackImprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 930g

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H. F. LINSKENS and J. HESLOP-HARRISON The chapters of this volume deal with intercellular interaction phenomena in plants. Collectively they provide a broad conspectus of a highly active, if greatly fragmented, research field. Certain limitations have...

Plant productivity depends upon the photosynthetic conversion of the light energy into chemical energy stored in the biomass of plants. An intermediate step in this energy conversion process is electron transfer and proton translocation. At present,...

In 1775, the physician and botanist William Withering (1741-99) was informed of a folk cure for dropsy that had as its active ingredient the plant foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Ten years later, after thorough trials on more than 150 patients, Withering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659345531Author Fatima SumiaFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 522g

Modern Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods ofPlant Analysis, was first introduced in 1954, the considerations were: 1. the dependence of scientific progress in biologyon the improvement of existing and the introduction of new...

Sir Henry Alexander Wickham (1846-1928) is remembered for his role in bringing the seeds of the rubber tree in 1876 from Brazil to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where seedlings were successfully cultivated and then sent to Asia for the establishment...

In the early seventies, scientists in Israel and The Netherlands started a cooperative project on actual and potential production under semi-arid conditions. In Israel research concentrated on primary production of natural pastures and small grain crops,...

Trained as a gardener in his native Scotland, William Aiton (1731-93) had worked in the Chelsea Physic Garden prior to coming to Kew in 1759. He met Joseph Banks in 1764, and the pair worked together to develop the scientific and horticultural status of...

Ernest Ballard (1870-1952) was a British horticulturalist who was noted as a breeder of Michaelmas daisies. In this book, which was first published in 1919, Ballard provides a richly detailed account documenting some of the more affecting moments in the...

This open access book is an update of genome editing techniques applied to a range of plants. We discuss the latest techniques and applications to cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, legumes and algae including...

Originally published in 1915, this textbook provides a comprehensive and readily understandable treatment of botany. Principally aimed at secondary school plant science students and botanists in preparation for examinations, the book assumes no prior...

This volume presents protocols for Brachypodium genomics in numerous areas ranging from marker development, trait evolution, functional genomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, genomics, and tilling. This book also explores techniques to study the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489953575Author Eloy RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams) 507g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170359715Author T. PullaiahFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint Regency PublicationsPublisher Astral International

A great fascination for biologists, the study of embryo development provides indispensable information concerning the origins of the various forms and structures that make up an organism, and our ever-increasing knowledge gained through the study of...

Chloroplasts are essential for the survival and flourishing of life on Earth. Over the years, chloroplast biology has been studied in a variety of different organisms, leading to the significant disadvantage that findings which were made by using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386071323Author Dr Venkata R. Prakash ReddyFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Daya Publishing HousePublisher Astral InternationalWeight(grams) 864g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930665309Author E. Lucy BraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint The Blackburn PressPublisher The Blackburn PressWeight(grams) 700g

A number of economically important diseases are caused by potyviruses, the largest group of plant viruses. Many of these diseases are distributed worldwide. The development of effective control strategies against viruses is dependent on the availability...

The contributions of plant genetics to the production of higher yielding crops of superior quality are well documented. These successes have been realized through the application of plant breeding techniques to a diverse array of genetically controlled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401757461Author R. A. DonkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 272g

This book summarizes the latest studies on plant reproduction and multiple aspects of signaling in reproductive development. It also presents the most advanced processes in CrRLK1L receptor and RALF peptide studies during plant development. Focusing on...

From the reviews: "...the present work is an invaluable addition to the literature on reproductive biology of plants... Few botanists today are better qualified than van der Pijl to write on dispersal (and pollination) biology... an excellent...