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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Identification of desirable genotypes with traits of interest is discernible for making genetic improvement of crop plants. In this direction, screening of a large number of germplasm for desirable traits and transfer of identified traits into agronomic backgrounds through recombination breeding is...
Ampélographie française
Comprenant la statistique, la description des meilleurs cépages, l'analyse chimique du sol et les procédés de culture et de vinification des principaux vignobles de la France
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "La vigne (Vitis vinifera, Linn.), originaire de l'Asie, selon toute probabilité, et introduite par les Phéniciens d'abord en Grèce, ensuite en Sicile et en Italie, puis dans la Gaule, aux environs de Marseille, par les Phocéens, est rangée par les botanistes dans les Ampélidées, famille...
by Pierre-Paul Dehérain, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Extrait : "Les anciens avaient reconnu l'existence de l'air, et ils soupçonnaient son importance, puisqu'ils l'avaient placé au nombre des éléments ; mais ce n'est que dans les temps modernes, et même assez rapprochés de nous, que les savants ont pu spécifier ses propriétés, puis sa nature complexe,...
Measuring Plant Diversity
Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Ecologists interested in assessing landscapes and ecosystems must measure biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of various key species. Recently, sampling designs for measuring species richness and diversity, patterns of plant diversity, species-environment relationships, and species distributions...
by T.H. Bullock, A. Fessard, R.H. Hartline
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The originality of this volume is to reveal to the reader the fascination of some unfamiliar sensory organs that are sometimes ignored and often misunderstood. These receptors have only recently been identified and their functional specificity is in some cases still a matter for discussion. The four...
by Vasudevan Nair
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book describes some commonly used medicinal plants of uncertain botanical identity. With the increased public interest in the use of herbs to treat ailments, many spurious plants are being used in the manufacture of Ayurvedic medicines. This is sometimes owing to ignorance and in other cases, an...
Terricolous Lichens in India
Volume 1: Diversity Patterns and Distribution Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Terricolous lichens, a habitat specialist group of lichens play a vital role in maintenance and ecological stability of soil crusts with reference to their physical stability, hydrology and growth of soil microflora. Terricolous lichens in Indian lichenological studies haven’t been taken up as a...
Diatoms
Biology and Morphology of the Genera
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the commonest group of autotrophic plants on earth and are abundant in all waters and on soils and moist surfaces. The introduction describes...
Vascular Plants of Texas
A Comprehensive Checklist Including Synonymy, Bibliography, and Index
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Everyone with a professional interest in the flora of Texas will welcome this checklist of the vascular plants. This comprehensive list also includes crops, persistent perennials, and naturalized plants and encompasses over 1,000 changes to the previous (Hatch, 1990) checklist. The authors have arranged...
by K. Subramanya Sastry
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Seeds provide an efficient means in disseminating plant virus and viroid diseases. The success of modern agriculture depends on pathogen free seed with high yielding character and in turn disease management. There is a serious scientific concern about the transmission of plant viruses sexually through...
Microbial Plant Pathogens-Detection and Disease Diagnosis:
Viral and Viroid Pathogens, Vol.3
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The need for the development of techniques based on the characteristics of the viral proteins and genomic nucleic acids was realized in order to detect, identify, differentiate and quantify viruses in the infected plants/planting materials with or without symptoms of infection. Immunoassays have been...
The Physiology of Flowering
Volume II: Transition to Reproductive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The present work is organised such that the whole phenomenon of flowing is divided into two major steps: 1. the initiation of flower primordia and 2. The development of these primordia into mature flowers until anthesis.
Heathlands
Patterns and Processes in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition and changes in the management of heathlands have caused a significant change in the species composition of the NW-European heathlands. This change from ericaceous towards gramineous dominance is analysed in detail in Heathlands: Patterns and Processes in a...