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Abiotic stresses in crop plants

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This book provides an overall perspective on the current progress being made in the area of abiotic stresses and their management for sustainable agriculture. It contains 15 chapters divided into three sections: (i) temperature, water and salinity stress; (ii) heavy metals and o…

Plants and society

by Levetin, Estelle, McMahon, Karen

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This introductory text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors strive to stimulate interest in plant science and encourage students to further their studies in botany. Also, by exposing students to society's histor…

Competition and succession in pastures

by Tow, P. G., Lazenby, Alec

fromCabi Ser

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This multi-author book describes how competition between plant species and succession in plant ecosystems operate in natural and sown pastures. It discusses how competition affects botanical structure, productivity and persistence, and is itself regulated by biological, environm…

Reproductive biology of plants

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Reproductive biology is the basis of species improvement and a thorough understanding of this is needed for plant improvement, whether by conventional or biotechnological methods. This book presents an up to date and comprehensive description of reproduction in lower plants, gym…

Sexual reproduction in animals and plants

by International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, Nagoya, Japan)

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"This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to discuss their recent progress in investigating the shared mechanisms and factors inv…

Pachypodium (Apocynaceae)

by Maesen, L. J. G. van der, Rapanarivo, S. H. J. V., Leeuwenberg, A. J. M.

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. Eighteen are endemic to Madagascar and five occur in continental African (Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe). The study is based on herbarium material and living plants. The varieties P. baronii var. windsorii and P. rosulatum var. gracilius are raised t…

Convergent evolution: limited forms most beautiful

by McGhee, George R.

fromVienna series in theoretical biology

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In this book, George McGhee describes the ubiquity of the phenomenon of convergent evolution and connects it directly to the concept of evolutionary constraint--the idea that the number of evolutionary pathways available to life are not endless, but quite limited. Convergent ev…

Nitrogen acquisition and assimilation in higher plants

by Amâncio, Sara, Stulen, I.

fromKluwer handbook series of plant ecophysiology

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"Research on the uptake, acquisition and assimilation of nitrogen, as well as the synthesis and storage of reserve and defence N-compounds is essential. The third volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series integrates functional and molecular physiology with ecophysiological and su…

Plant MAP kinases: methods and protocols

fromMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

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