In horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants reproductive physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables, the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant physiology, including plants reproductive systems, are important to the production of food, fibers, medicine, cosmetics, and even fuels. This volume presents many new studies on plants' reproductive systems, including new research on sperm cells in plant reproduction; the effect of herbivory on plant reproduction; disturbances to functional diversity; plant genes, hormones, DNA; and much more.
In horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants reproductive physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables, the main consu...
In order to function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function, and these chemicals have multiple practical uses in the human world as well, with applications to agriculture, forestry, and horticulture. This book presents an important collection of research and studies on the physiology of photosynthesis.
In order to function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a large arra...
This volume includes the latest research into the diseases that affect the non-vascular plants. Chapters within this book bring to light the most recent studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals, pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases. The information provided here will allow readers to stay current with this field s ongoing research and ever-developing knowledge base.
This volume includes the latest research into the diseases that affect the non-vascular plants. Chapters within this book bring to light the most rece...
This volume has its origins in an international seminar where eighteen scholars representing a number of academic fields were invited to consider the eighteenth-century colonial enterprise from a more global and interdisciplinary perspective. Among the issues that arose then, and that are more fully elaborated here, are: the nature and goals of the many colonial expeditions that were undertaken at the time; the manners and means in which these were carried out; the differences between them; and the similarities that they shared. Relying on a variety of sources that include historical...
This volume has its origins in an international seminar where eighteen scholars representing a number of academic fields were invited to consider the ...