Botany & Plant Sciences

This text explores the spatial variation and seasonality in growth and reproduction of "Enhalus acoroides" (L.f.) Royle populations in the coastal ...

Part of a series on the flora of tropical East Africa, this work considers Polypodiaceae. The flora is prepared at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in cl...

This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Myrtaceae, a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs, found in tropical East Africa....

This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision. Key topics such as populat...

This series of books is a translation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSR, which provides information on the wild and most important cultivated plants ...

This title, the 52nd in symposium series, presents a comprehensive review of apoptosis and features contributions from many internationally recogni...

The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the ...

This volume, Endophyte Biology: Recent Findings from the Kashmir Himalayas, is a unique compilation of the original, latest, and updated informatio...

The 29th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. This volume concludes with a text on Erasmus Darwin, grandfa...

The 27th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th c...

This series of books is a translation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSR, which provides information on the wild and most important cultivated plants ...

This new volume highlights the various emerging techniques and molecular applications that are currently being used in plant abiotic stress physiol...

Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and ...

This book presents a comprehensive and coherent picture of how molecules diffuse across a liquid that is, on average, only two molecules thick. It ...

Principles and Practices in Plant Ecology: Allelochemical Interactions provides insights and details recent progress about allelochemical research ...

This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically...

Handbook of Edible Weeds contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of 100 edible weeds, representing 100 genera of higher plant species. Som...

2008 NOMINEEThe Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From...

Narcissus and Daffodil is the first book to provide a complete overview of the genus Narcissus. Prized for centuries in western Europe as an orname...

The world production of citrus fruit has risen enormously, leaping from forty-five million tons a year to eighty-five million in the last 30 years....

Capsicum has been used since ancient times not only as a traditional medicine but also as a natural colorant. The medicinal properties of capsicum ...

Plants depend on physiological mechanisms to combat adverse environmental conditions, such as pathogen attack, wounding, drought, cold, freezing, s...

This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fa...

This volume represents an ongoing series entitled Biological Shape Analysis, of which this is the 4th Edition. These proceedings represent state-of...

Photosynthesis has been an important field of research for more than a century, but the present concerns about energy, environment and climate have...

Plant viruses are significant as they affect our food supply and are capable of rapidly spreading to new plant species, so a comprehensive study of...

The idea that plants have minds can sound improbable, but some widely respected contemporary scientists and philosophers find it plausible. It turn...

The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-ce...

The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-ce...

This is the second of a five-volume set. This series of volumes on the ethnobotany of different regions of India melds important knowledge in one p...

This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a plurali...

Flowers are the beautiful and complex reproductive structures of the angiosperms, one of the most diverse and successful groups of living organisms...

Flowers are the beautiful and complex reproductive structures of the angiosperms, one of the most diverse and successful groups of living organisms...

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pur...

An integrative view of the evolution of genetics and the natural world Even in this advanced age of genomics, the evolutionary process of unicellu...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.The field of plant physiology includes the study of all chemical and physical processes of pla...

Due to their diversity, vegetable Brassicas are of great economic import and offer unique opportunities to enrich our knowledge about plant growth,...

Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality tr...

The focus of the present edition has been to further consolidate the information on the principles of plant systematic, include detailed discussion...

Written by an experienced researcher in the field, Phytohormones and Patterning provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on the p...

Most therapeutics available today are highly toxic, very expensive and exhibit minimum efficacy. The issue of toxicity is even more critical for pr...

Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight expo...

This study examines the role of small-scale disturbance by burrowing shrimps and its interaction with seagrass performance against a changing backg...

This book is the first of its kind that focuses on the chemistry and biology of ellagitannins, a special class of naturally occurring polyphenols w...

The spatial aspects of epidemics have been a largely ignored feature of plant ecology, yet an understanding of the spatial dynamics of pathogens is...

The study of phytoliths—inorganic silica remnants plants leave behind when they die and decay—has developed dramatically over the last twenty years...

The study of phytoliths—inorganic silica remnants plants leave behind when they die and decay—has developed dramatically over the last twenty years...