Climate change will severely impact the world s food supply unless steps are taken to increase crop resilience. Otherwise, the negative effects on both the yield and the quality of crop plants are predicted to be immense. Plant genomics is a potentially powerful defense against this looming threat.

This compendium volume offers a global perspective on the topic, with contributions from 42 eminent researchers from 12 nations around the world. The editor is a respected and published scientist in the bioinformatics field, who has chosen articles in the following topics:

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Keeping physically fit is now becoming the highest priority in society. People have now switched on to sedentary lifestyle. The benefits of regular exercises on physiological, physical and psychological health and on people with stress, anxiety and depression have been clearly documented. Truly speaking, it is easy to spot a regular exerciser by his improved sense of general well being and enhanced self image.People, the world over, have realized the importance of physically fit body for a vigorous and purposeful life. Unless we have the sustaining physical fitness, the joy of living and the...

It is perhaps evident that there is a growing realization of the importance of physiological variables enhancing the human health. Therefore, physiological variables such as resting pulse rate, maximum breath holding capacity, body composition and vital capacity is to be taken into special consideration which is an important pre-requisite for good health. Being lover of yogic exercises and has experienced the great benefits of such exercises. The visible effect of Pranayama is well known and hence the researcher became inclined to venture in to the study to test the effect of selected...

Advances in information technology and next generation sequencing have propelled the use of bioinformatics in agriculture, especially in the area of crop improvement. An extremely large amount of genomics data is available from plants and animals due to tremendous improvements in the field. This book acquaints readers with state-of-the-art sequencing technologies, recent developments in computing algorithms, and certain biological perspectives that influence development of bioinformatics tools by giving specific examples from model plant species. The challenge is now to make sense and use of...

Modeling of Magmatic and Allied Processespresentsmethods and models for the quantification of geological processes. Conceptual models for magmatic differentiation involving crystallization and mixing are presented and applied to field and textural data. Model equations for the degree of partial melting in presence perturbations of lithospheric geotherms and partitioning of trace/radioactive elements in thematrix and melts, and the formationof continents with melt additions are described. Diverse magmatic products are shown to result from differentiation processes rather than...

Modeling of Magmatic and Allied Processes presents methods and models for the quantification of geological processes.