Botany & Plant Sciences

In this very special story of transcendent revelations and global repercussions, track the full course of L. Ron Hubbard's scientific horticultural...

Seagrasses are flowering plants from one of four plant families, all in the order Alismatales, which grow in marine, fully-saline environments. Sea...

Phenolic compounds are known to be released into the soil by root exudates and litter inputs thus alterations in foliar and root chemistry have imp...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the role in agriculture, health effects and medical applications of plant extrac...

This book gathers the information about the molecular phylogeny, antioxidant compounds and health benefits of citrus. It covers the biological aspe...

Growth is the biological phenomenon of increase in size with time. The sudden increase in tree diameter often observed after rain is not due to gro...

Rapeseed is the traditional name of a large winter or spring annual oilseed crop from the Brassicaceae family, and is related to mustard, cabbage, ...

The word auxin has a Greek origin: auxein means to enlarge or to grow. Auxins are an important category of plant hormones, regulating many aspects ...

Analysis of plant diversity aims to understand the organisation and the variability of biological populations within ecosystems. In classical analy...

This Reference Work is devoted to plant secondary metabolites and their evolutionary adaptation to different hosts and pests. Secondary metabolites...