Botany

Best remembered today for his technically innovative design for the Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and remained involved in gardening throughout his...

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was one of the most influential garden designers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Skilled as a painter and in many forms of handicrafts, she found her metier in the combination of her artistic skills with...

Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948) was a renowned botanist best known for his research on the origins and evolution of ferns. Appointed Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow in 1885, he became a leading figure in the development of...

This volume provides a collection of state-of-the-art protocols on plant vacuolar trafficking. Chapters guide the reader through design and preparation of fusion proteins, expression vectors, and detailed analysis of different microscopy techniques...

Air pollution is ubiquitous in industrialized societies, causing a host of environmental problems. It is thus essential to monitor and reduce pollution levels. A number of plant species already are being exploited as detectors (for phytomonitoring) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783662373866Author Henry P. DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag...

Trained by his father, a market gardener, Philip Miller (1691-1771) rose to become Britain's most eminent horticulturalist in the eighteenth century. Following a period as a nurseryman in Southwark, he was appointed the head gardener of the Chelsea...

This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial...

'lbe rescue of immature embryos from wide crosses (Il) was one of the first applications of culture techniques in the cereals. Success with embryo culture has improved with increased knowledge of embryo development, differen tia tion pa ttems and nu tri...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357954440Author Julius A PalmerPage Count 26Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632391063Author Harvey ParkerFormat HardbackImprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389944297Author Dr S K KhadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Nirali PrakhashanPublisher Nirali PrakhashanWeight(grams) 218g

The book provides basic knowledge in mycorrhizal ecology, knitted with novel conceptual frameworks and contemporary perspectives, especially in the context of global change. In a fast changing world wherein anthropogenic climate change, biological...

Rapid changes and significant progress have been made in the Agrobacterium field, such as genetically transforming plants for both basic research purposes and agricultural development. In Agrobacterium Protocols, Third Edition, Volumes 1 and 2, a team of...

The secretory activity of plants is a manifestation of the fundamental property of all living organisms: the ability to exchange substances and energy with the environment. This book summarizes today's knowledge of all such secretory activities of higher...

This volume assembles protocols for chromosome engineering and genome editing in two recently developed approaches for manipulating chromosomal and genomic DNA in plants. The first approach is a "plant chromosome vector" system, which allows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682861899Author Davis TwomeyFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint Syrawood Publishing HousePublisher Syrawood Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Morphological differences between cells and the exis tence of morphologically distinct particles have been examined since cells were first recognized. Each techno logical advance in detection and visualization has led to the description of different...

This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741-99), a physician who had also trained as an apothecary (his Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses is also reissued in this...

With numerous methods available for the quantification of nitric oxide (NO), this detailed book explores their advantages and disadvantages in order to provide a foundation for further research in plant nitric oxide. After providing a useful practical...

Zambian plants: their vernacular names and uses is a comprehensive list of vernacular names used by the millions of rural Zambians who rely on bush products in their everyday lives. It is also the most comprehensive review of the uses of Zambian plants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357966788Author William SymePage Count 42Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361476464Author Charles DarwinPage Count 382Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357952675Author Worthington George SmithPage Count 38Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789351309734Author B. Sarath BabuFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Daya Publishing HousePublisher Astral InternationalWeight(grams) 695g

This book provides insights into the latest achievements in genomics research on Brassica rapa. It describes the findings on this Brassica species, the first of the U's triangle that has been sequenced and a close relative to the model plant Arabidopsis,...

The Himalayan region is among the largest mountains systems of the world with uncounted unique medicinal plants resources. The lesser Himalayas ranges are the extension of Greater Himalayas. They have unique ecology, vegetation and diversity of medicinal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783867412193Author Douglas H CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Europaischer Hochschulverlag Gmbh & Co. KgPublisher Europaischer...

The genome is more than a linear code as depicted by its DNA sequences as several interacting factors play a crucial role in shaping its organization and function. The complete sequences of a number of plant genomes and the recent advances of...

This volume focuses and describes tools, assays, and techniques used to enhance the understanding of the role of auxins and cytokinins. The chapters in this book cover topics such as: microbial manipulation of auxin and cytokinins in plants; interplay...

A symposium entitled "The New Frontiers and Future Perspectives of Plant Bio- chemistry" was held in Nagoya, Japan, September 1-3, 1981 in honor of Professor lkuzo Uritani. Recognizing his planned retirement from Nagoya University in March,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401089418Author Zdenek SestakFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 611g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923006683Author Sally NobbsFormat HardbackImprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants. This book is unique in that it concerns the basic aspect of abiotic stress biology and...

When botanist Leonard Cockayne (1855-1934) first received an invitation from the German publisher Engelmann to write an account of the botany of New Zealand, much of it was still unknown. He spent the period from 1904 to 1913 immersed in fieldwork, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789980945846Author Robert HoftFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint University of Papua New Guinea PressPublisher University of Papua New Guinea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362092557Author Hugh Vandervaes LelyPage Count 248Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book places grapes in the context of their family, the Vitaceae. It begins by focusing on the relationship of the family to other angiosperms and the interrelationships and characteristics of its genera. Two chapters emphasize the structure and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361421136Author Flora KlickmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLP

Catharine Parr Traill (1802-99) was a writer, botanist and settler who emigrated from England to Canada with her husband in 1832. Both she and her sister, Susanna Moodie, became well known for their writing on settler life: Traill is also the author of...