Botanik

Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases

<P>Biological control of plant diseases and plant pathogens is of great significance in forestry and agriculture. This book, the first of its kind, is organized around the indication that al...

Sound Source Localization

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search. The volumes are aimed at all individuals ...

Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants

The halophytes are highly specialized plants, which have greater tolerance to salt. They can germinate, grow and reproduce successfully in saline areas which would cause the death of regular plant...

Protocol for Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants

World population is increasing at an alarming rate and this has resulted in increasing tremendously the demand for tree products such as wood for construction materials, fuel and paper, fruits, oi...

Animal Cell Technology Meets Genomics

<P>The 18<SUP>th</SUP> ESACT meeting was celebrated in Granada (Spain) in May 2003, and was entitled "Animal Cell Technology Meets Genomics", in order to reflect that the...

Plant Respiration

<P>Respiration in plants, as in all living organisms, is essential to provide metabolic energy and carbon skeletons for growth and maintenance. As such, respiration is an essential component...

Coryphantha

Adrian Lüthy / Reto Dicht

<P>This unique reference work presents the first comprehensive taxonomy of Coryphantha, with a complete key to the genus. It contains a new taxonomic classification of all 43 species and 11 ...

Growth Dynamics of Conifer Tree Rings

Eugene A. Vaganov / Malcolm K. Hughes / Alexander V. Shashkin

<P>Dendrochronologists have long estimated the impact of climate on tree-ring growth by empirical-statistical methods. The use of the model is illustrated with examples from widely differing...

Allelopathy

There are many good books in the market dealing with the subject of allelopathy. When we designed the outline of this new book, we thought that it should include as many different points of view a...

Sterile Insect Technique

<P>The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly pest control method that fits into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book describes the principl...

Introduction to Plant Pathology

Richard N. Strange

<p>This invaluable resource introduces the eleven types of organism that cause plant disease, ranging from higher plants to viroids and describes examples of cash and staple crop diseases th...

Root Physiology: from Gene to Function

<P>In the last decade, enormous progress has been made on the physiology of plant roots, including on a wide range of molecular aspects. Much of that progress has been captured in the chapte...

Cell Engineering

Photosystem II

<P></P><P>The most mysterious part of photosynthesis yet the most important for all aerobic life on Earth (including ourselves) is how green plants, algae and cyanobacteria make ...

Progress in Botany 67

Lotus japonicus Handbook

<P>Legumes are very important plants playing a central role in biological research. They are a key component of sustainable agricultural systems because of symbiotic nitrogen fixation and ot...

Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment

<P>Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents all around the World and biological nitrogen fixation has a ...

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants

<P>Biologists worldwide now speak the scientific language of molecular biology and use the same molecular tools. Interest is growing in the molecular biology of abiotic stress tolerance and ...

Double Fertilization

Val Raghavan

<P>"Double Fertilization" provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of this central event in the reproduction and development of flowering plants. Written by Val Raghavan, The...

Tropical Fruits and Frugivores

In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents. I...