Botany

This book provides an understanding of desert environments, their climatic conditions, and unique physical beauty using the five deserts of the southwestern United States as examples. Through considerable research, sensitivity, and practical experience, the author provides insight into how built env..

This benchmark text integrates the recent revolution in the molecular-developmental genetics of plants with mainstream evolutionary thought. Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution discusses our increasing understanding of gene function and expression, along with modern phylogenies. It integrates..

Diagnosis of Plant Virus Diseases presents a comprehensive summary of methods currently available for the diagnosis of plant diseases caused by viruses and viroids...

In the Dictionary of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology, more than 3,500 technical terms from the fields of plant genetics and molecular biology are defined for students, teachers, and researchers in universities, institutes, and agricultural research stations. An excellent educational tool that w..

The analysis of changes in gene activity in tissues and cells of plants is a way of measuring developmental and environmental responses. This volume provides detailed accounts of new and established techniques used to carry out such analyses...

This texts discusses DNA replication in plants including chapters on; functional chromosomal structure, the biochemistry of DNA replication, Control of DNA replication, Replication of plant organelle DNA, replication of DNA viruses in plants, and DNA damage, repair, and mutagenesis...

Readers have come to depend on Jim Duke’s comprehensive handbooks for their ease of use and artful presentation of scientific information. Following the successful format of his other CRC handbooks, Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible contains 150 herbs listed alphabetically and by scie..

Ecology Of Fungi..

Expanding the Context of Weed Management is your key to the latest economically and environmentally friendly methods of managing weeds. You will explore the biological, cultural, mechanical, and preventive tools and techniques that are necessary to successfully manage weeds...

This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links between SE Asia and Australasia which go back..

This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the botany, chemistry, and pharmacology of fig trees and figs of the Ficus species, including the fig of commerce, Ficus carica, the rubber tree (Ficus elastic), and the Bo tree (Ficus religiosa). Discussing uses of figs in medicine, the book also e..

Flora of Tropical East Africa..