Botany

Comprises exhaustive and updated information on more than 2000 terms of ecology and related subjects, with illustrations. ... More

The Dapuri Drawings is about a remarkable collection of botanical drawings belonging to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The watercolours were commissioned by Alexander Gibson, an East India Company surgeon, and depict plants grown in the botanic gardens under his control in the Bombay Presidency... More

The book “Dictionary of Soil Science” aims to create a terms and terminology of soil science in a very lucid way, so that students and researchers may understand the soil science related term easily. The Present dictionary consists about 750 words involving nearly all sphere of soil science subj... More

This work studies in detail the various plant-communities and analyses how plants or plant-communities adjust their forms and modes of behaviour to different actually operating factors, such as the amounts of available water, heat, light, nutriment etc. After an introduction to ecological plant-geog... More

CONTENTS: Part I: Cereal, Oil Seeds, Medicinal, Pulses, Forage and Vegetable Crops. 1. New Opportunities in Plant Breeding, 2. Wheat, 3. Brassica, 4. Linseed, 5. Sesame, 6. Plantago Ovata Forsk, 7. Celery, 8. Saffron, 9. Pigeonpea, 10. Cytogenetics of Medics and Forage Pennisetums, 11. Tomato, 12. G... More

CONTENTS: Part I: Fundamentals. 1. Scope, Methods, and Applications of Genetics, 2. Development, 3. Reproduction, 4. Mendelian Method, 5. Segregation, 6. Mendelian Conceptions, 7. Sex Linkage or Heterosomal Inheritance, 8. Heterozygous Expressions, 9. Lethal Factors, 10. Multiple Allelomorphism, 11.... More

Plant conservation is an international issue and one of the major aims of this book has been to explore the importance of biotechnology as evidenced by its use in major international plant genetic resource centers located in different parts of the globe. Most agronomically important plant gropus hav... More

CONTENTS: 1. Agriculture and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2. Biotechnology Research Promotion and Priorities in India, 3. Applications of Genetic Engineering in Agriculture, 4. Enzymes in Genetic Engineering (Nucleic Acid Enzymology), 5. Gene Cloning Vectors, 6. Techniques for Genetic Engineering, 7.... More

Human being is reformer and destructor of himself and the society. With the advancement in human civilization and consequent progress in industrialization and space, geological and geo-hydrological technoplogies, thermal\hydro power generation, water conservation\management technologies and increasi... More

Post-translational modification of proteins, or what occurs after a protein has been synthesized by the cell, are now known to play a fundamental role in regulating the activity, location and function of a wide range of proteins. In plant cells work on different types of post-translational modificat... More

This book blends information on classical fundamental aspects with recent development in fungal systematics. The textbook of fungi presents information on the morphology, life cycle and their economic uses in human life. Special attempt has been made on the biological activities of the microbial pr... More

The present publication is being prepared by keeping in view the requirements of B.Sc. and Ms.c. students of several indian universtieis. Teh text of the book is clear and simple which is easily followed by the sentes and explained through well labelled diagrams. About Author : Dr. R M Johri complet... More

Higher plants contain a variety of metabolites that are useful as medicines, food additives, perfumes, etc. Decreased plant resources, increases in labour costs and other problems in obtaining these valuable substances from natural plants have stimulated work in the area of plant cell culture for th... More

The title presents for the first time a balanced variety of authentic reports on various aspects of endocrine research directed towards application of acquired knowledge as the most effective tool of biotechnology for the propagation of economic animals and management of human health. The book provi... More

CONTENTS: 1. Molecular Characteristics, Properties and Functions of Water in Plants and Soils, 2. Soil Pore Space System and Soil Moisture Constants, 3. Movement of Water into and Within Soils, 4. Plant Available Soil Moisture (PASM), 5. Absorption and Translocation of Water by Plants and Their Soil... More

Contents : Integrated Insect Pest Management Identifies IPM Strategies against insect pests in different crops Cereals Millets Pulses Oil Seeds Vegetables Fruit Crops Commercial Crops Flower Crops Silviculture Crops Refferences Subject Index... More

This volume is a collection of papers by experts in medicinal plants, presented to help clarify the many policy and technical issues associated with the conservation, use, production and trade of medicinal plants. The publication draws attention to the huge contribution of medicinal plants to tradit... More