Botany

This reference work on the flora of Ceylon describes every plant family, including: araliaceae; caricacae; dilleniaceae; fabaceae; loganiaceae; oleaceae; plataginaceae; portulacaceae; rhamnaceae; theaceae; tiliaceae; and violoaceae...

A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon - Volume 12..

A detailed, up-to-date discussion of plant cold hardiness research. The molecular mechanisms of plant cold hardiness development is examined in depth. Other major topics addressed include the freezing tolerance and injury of plant tissues in vivo and in vitro and how research findings impact agricul..

This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth understanding of allelopathy—the mysterious, complex biochemical interactions among plants and microbes. This little-understood phenomenon can lead to changes in nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure, and species diversity. Allelopathy in Agro..

Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods...

Presents accounts of the various uses to which prominent Amazonian plants are put by the local rainforest inhabitants. This book emphasises on plant foods and forest medicines. It also covers natural artifacts, house construction, natural pesticides, and ornamental and fodder plants...

An Atlas of Orchid Pollination..

This timely publication describes the botanical sources and chemical features of antiviral compounds. It covers their mechanisms of action and evaluates their therapeutic potential...

Based on original cytoembryological data and critically reviewed literature on more than 250 species from 57 families of angiosperms. The book covers the complete process of nucellar and integumentary embryo formation and viable seed development within species, families, and among angiosperms in gen..

This book compiles a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North American aquatic flowering plants by providing a comprehensive overview of the biology of over 1000 species in more than 300 genera. It provides information from numerous sources in primary literatur..

This book provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown globally. These native foods have been consumed traditionally, have a unique flavor diversity, offer significant health promoting effects, a..

The various instruments described in this text all provide an integrated and automated approach for separating free and bound ligands along with other steps in radioimmunoassay. Although the various systems differ significantly in design, they all perform these basic manoeuvres, for the most part, w..