Category: Plants

By Sir Daniel Hall

By T. G. Tutin, V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burges, D. H. Valentine

ISBN-10: 0521087171

ISBN-13: 9780521087179

Initially released among 1964 and 1980, this fourth quantity is a revision of the 7th version of Willis, with significant amendments and additions. One specific characteristic is an alphabetical checklist of accredited relations names during this dictionary with their equivalents in Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum and Engler's Syllabus.

By Doreen Court

This very hot reference paintings, a botanical vintage, has been absolutely revised and up-to-date. A clean new layout and gorgeous full-color photos reduction id. First released in 1981, Succulent vegetation has lengthy served as an authoritative advisor for lecturers and lay fanatics alike. This 3rd version takes into consideration intervening taxonomic advances and the invention and naming of ever extra species. info has been supplemented based on the most recent considering and the e-book has been newly designed for readability and straightforwardness of reference. Given the exceptional volume of our succulent vegetation, this absolutely up to date variation is a well timed addition to the botanical literature of southern Africa.

By Maša Kandušer, Damijan Miklavčič (auth.), Nikolai Lebovka, Eugene Vorobiev (eds.)

ISBN-10: 0387793739

ISBN-13: 9780387793733

ISBN-10: 0387793747

ISBN-13: 9780387793740

Recently, the electrotechnologies in line with the results of pulsed electrical fields (PEF), corresponding to ohmic heating (OH) and DC electrical box, have won actual curiosity within the box of meals processing. those strategies successfully increase tools of extraction from foodstuff crops and dehydration of biosolids. The PEF and pulsed OH recommendations defend the dietary, practical, structural and sensory houses of goods larger than traditional extraction applied sciences. The electrofiltration and electro-osmotic dewatering may be very powerful for the separation of bioproducts and dehydration of nutrition wastes.

The booklet offers an summary the basic rules of electric innovations, electrophysical houses of meals and agricultural items, program of assorted rising electrotechnologies for reinforcing the solid-liquid separation and drying strategies, extraction options of pigments, processing equipment of alternative in-plant tissues and biosolids, electro-osmotic dewatering and electrofiltration of biomaterials, contemporary commercial- scale profits, and different points. every one bankruptcy is complementary to different chapters and addresses the most recent efforts within the box.

By William Lotschert, Gerhard Beese

ISBN-10: 0002191121

ISBN-13: 9780002191128

This can be a advisor to the vibrant global of crops, either decorative and monetary, from all areas of the tropics. Introductory chapters talk about the categories of tropical plants, the influence which guy has had upon the ecology of the tropics and at the spreading of either decorative and monetary vegetation around the globe, and the function of those vegetation in paintings and mythology. the most textual content offers a botanical description of every species with flowering time, starting place, distribution and specifications. when it comes to fiscal crops it's also construction tables evaluating nationwide yields. There are 274 color images, and 325 vegetation are defined. This consultant is meant as a better half to botanists traveling within the tropics.

By Charles Ainsworth

ISBN-10: 1405128089

ISBN-13: 9781405128087

ISBN-10: 1405172401

ISBN-13: 9781405172400

The flowering crops now dominate the terrestrial ecosystems of the planet, and there are solid purposes for supposing that the flower itself has been a massive contributing issue to the unfold of the Angiosperms. The vegetation of upper vegetation not just include the organs of plant copy yet are of basic significance in giving upward thrust to end result and seeds which represent a tremendous component to the human diet.This quantity opens with a bankruptcy describing a version for the evolution of the Angiosperm flower. Chapters 2 to five describe the middle improvement of the flower and contain floral induction, floral pattering and organ initiation, floral form and dimension, and inflorescence structure. Chapters 6 to eight concentrate on extra specialized facets of floral improvement: monoecy, cytoplasmic male sterility and flowering in perennials. Chapters nine and 10 deal with extra useful points: flower color and odor. The ebook concludes, properly, with a bankruptcy on flower senescence.Applied features are under pressure anyplace acceptable, and the ebook is directed at researchers and execs in plant genetics, developmental and molecular biology.The quantity has been designed to enrich an past quantity in our Annual Plant stories sequence, O'Neill, S. D. and Roberts, J. A. (2002) Plant copy.

By Michael W. Dick (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9048156394

ISBN-13: 9789048156399

ISBN-10: 9401597332

ISBN-13: 9789401597333

'All significant mycological and plant pathological libraries may still endeavour to safe a duplicate whereas shares last.'
MYCOTAXON, April-June (2002)
`This epic treatise might be in each library with a microbiology collection.'
Mycological study, 106 (October 2002)
`This severe and carefully written ebook summarizes the life's paintings of a widely known expert. will probably be an fundamental compendium for everybody attracted to the variety of flagellated fungus-like organisms.'
Journal of Phytopathology, 150:11-12 (2002)
`... well-written and unusually effortless to learn. [...] StraminipilousFungi is destined to develop into a vintage reference within the mycological literature. each library facing fungal and protoctistan literature may still personal a replica of this book.'
Mycopathologia, 156 (2003)

By R. H. Falk, C. R. Stocking (auth.), C. R. Stocking, U. Heber (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642664172

ISBN-13: 9783642664175

ISBN-10: 3642664199

ISBN-13: 9783642664199

The difficulties linked to the circulate of water and solutes in the course of the plant physique have intrigued scholars of crops for the reason that Malpighi's conclusions in 1675 and 1679 that nutrient sap flows upward and downward in stems via vessels in either wooden and bark. Steven Hale's creative experiments at the stream of water in vegetation in 1726 and Hartig's observations of sieve-tube exudation within the mid-19th century set the degree for persisted extensive reviews on long-range delivery in vegetation. having said that curiosity for greater than two hundred years within the circulation of solutes and water in vegetation, it has in simple terms been in the final 20 to 30 years that large examine attempt has been directed towards a serious evaluate of the interactions one of the a variety of mobile organelles. the real roles performed by way of the alternate of metabolites within the regulate and legislation of mobile strategies is now widely known, yet in so much cases poorly understood.

By David E. Brown

ISBN-10: 0874804590

ISBN-13: 9780874804591

Biotic groups catalogs and defines by way of biome, or biotic neighborhood, the area founded on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. initially released in 1982 through the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, this bold ebook continues to be a "must-have" for these operating in usual assets administration and ecological learn, in addition to non-specialists who desire to recognize extra a few specific locale.Biotic groups is prepared by way of climatic formation with a quick bankruptcy for every biome describing weather, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and customary plant species, and attribute vertebrates. next chapters comprise cautious descriptions of zonal subdivisions. The textual content is supplemented with over 100 black and white photos illustrating virtually each neighborhood type.A corresponding full-color map can also be to be had.  

By Richard C. Burns Ph. D., Ralph W. F. Hardy Ph. D. (auth.)

ISBN-10: 364280926X

ISBN-13: 9783642809262

ISBN-10: 3642809286

ISBN-13: 9783642809286

Our wisdom of the biochemistry and biophysics of dinitrogen fixa­ tion has constructed speedily within the 15 years because the first N2-fixing enzyme approach used to be effectively extracted from a bacterium. This peri­ od has produced a literature that now describes the N2 fixation reac­ tion and the nitrogenase enzyme itself in subtle phrases, even though a close response mechanism on the chemical point has no longer but emerged. it's the goal of the current monograph to give an in-depth re­ view, research, and integration of this learn as is feasible with a non-contributed booklet and to narrate this paintings to considera­ tions of N2 fixation that extend past the confines of the biochem­ ist's laboratory. the 1st part is directed as a lot towards the overall technological know-how learn­ er as towards the professional. It covers the rural origins of man's curiosity in N2 fixation and likewise pertinent components of taxonomy, body structure, and evolution. Ecological elements of the topic comprise a finished overview of the nitrogen cycle resulting in a sub­ stantially better estimate of the speed of world N2 fixation than prior ones. The therapy is of a survey style, partly to seasoned­ vide a basic over-view of N2 fixation and partially to supply context for the biochemistry and biophysics that persist with within the moment section.