Plant Reproduction & Propagation

Temperate fruits include stone/drupe fruits (such as peach), pome fruits (such as apple) and berries (such as strawberries). Like other crops, cult...

Thirty years ago, in vitro propagation was a new technique for producing plants, and Lydiane Kytes Plants from Test Tubes became the standard work ...

Essential reading for all studying horticulture and keen gardeners. This clear introduction to the principles underlying the practical applications...

Irrigation has been used for thousands of years to maximize the performance, efficiency and profitability of crops and it is a science that is cons...

From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own food, to combating attacks from diseases and predators, plants have evolved an ama...

Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life, it is the way life persists across the ages. This book offers new, wider vistas on this fundamental ...

Development of transgenic crop plants, their utilization for improved agriculture, health, ecology and environment and their socio-political impact...

Most of the plant breeding programs aim to increase yield, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance and to improve quality character...

This book offers effective, low-cost and user-friendly protocols for the pre-field selection of salt-tolerant mutants in cereal crops. It presents ...

This book offers low-cost and rapid molecular assays for the characterization of mutant plant germplasm. Detailed protocols are provided for the de...

An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plants metabolism towards the production of compou...

Global Tea Breeding: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives provides a global review on biodiversity and biotechnology issues in tea breeding an...

This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stre...

In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eager...

This handbook presents how plant in vitro technologies can overcome current limitations in the production of important plant-derived substances. It...