Botany & Plant Sciences

Global crop production is under a significant challenge from both biotic and abiotic stressors. Extremes in temperature, drought, waterlogging, sal...

The rapid progress in molecular genetic techniques and molecular biology has led to a great expansion in the range of biotechnology applications in...

'Concepts of Seed Science and Technology' delves into the fundamental and advanced aspects of seed biology, offering a comprehensive overview of th...

This book provides information about plantenvironment studies and challenges for plant improvement to achieve food security. Plants face a wide ran...

The edited book covers all major and minor diseases in grain legumes (chickpea, pigeon pea, lentil, mung bean, common bean, groundnut, and soybean)...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the cutting-edge research in the bioengineering of halophytes, with a particular focus on advancemen...

This book is part of the book series titled Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants, and examines the rich plant diversity of Turkey, with desc...

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. ...

Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as ...

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments...

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes. In them, the need for external digestion ha...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (2024 nt), single stranded, regulatory RNA molecules or gene regulators of critical transcriptional or post-transcript...

This book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological str...

The book entitled Nanophytopathology discusses the need for alternative technologies particularly smart nanotechnological tools including nanobiose...

There are around 1.5 million fungal species worldwide. Out of these around 14,000 species produce fruiting bodies known as mushrooms, and around 20...

This book, as part of the Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants series, describes in detail the health-promoting wild edible and medicinal mu...

Food ingredients are important molecules of the most diverse chemical classes responsible for conferring nutrition, stability, color, flavor, rheol...

Enzymes are biological molecules of great relevance. In addition to the fundamental role in metabolic reactions, they have diverse applications in ...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste and discusses the main process conditions needed...

Microbes are widely used in large-scale industrial processes due to their versatility, easy growing cultivation, kinetic potential, and the ability...

Apart from diet and exercise, the strategic use of different classes of prescribed or non-prescribed xenobiotic compounds for the restoration of eu...