Botany

The damage caused by plant diseases has affected man all through the ages. The scientific principles involved in plant diseases control, however, came to light only with our understanding of the microbial nature of the diseases and the life cycle of the pathogens. The scientific approach to the prob... More

Medicinal and aromatic plants occupy predominant place in over all ambit of plant kingdom. They have immensely supported the life of human being and in earlier days when synthetic chemistry was not so much developed, these plants formed the mainstay of therapeutical threatment to counteract 3 Ds; th... More

Agricultural biotechnology is an advanced technology that allows plant breeders to make precise genetic changes to impart beneficial traits to the crop plants we rely on for food and fibre. Depending on which genes are transferred, agricultural biotechnology can protect crops from diseases, increase... More

The book describes the mechanism ofbiological entities and biochemical reaction and the synchrony between operationvariable and microbial metabolism. In other words, it describes the amalgamationof environmental microbiology and biochemistry for the benefit of man.... More

1. Introduction2. A Review of Pre-Darwinian Classification3. Hierarchy of Categories inPlant Classification4. Concept of Taxonomic Characters5. The Origin of Angiosperms6. General Evolutionary Trends inFlowering Plants7. Post-Darwinian Systems of Classification8. Taxonomy : A SyntheticDiscipline9. P... More

Perspectives in Plant Cell Recognition presents a review of recent advances in understanding the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms governing cell-cell interactions in plants. In the case of the interaction between different cells of the same plant, most progress has been made in the study o... More

The production and quality of horticulture produce in Indiais quite low when compared to other developing countries and these can beimproved with the adoption of latest technological knowledge and experiences ofscientists and experts. This book has been prepared with the aim of infusinglatest techni... More

Knowledge of Vegetable Crops diseases is several thousand years old and it is not known exactly when man come to know realise their prevalence. The damage caused by diseases of vegetable crops have affected man all through the ages. Besides the recurrence of rusts and mildews of vegetable crops of d... More

Diatoms are microscopic algae which are found in virtually every habitat where water is present. This volume is an up-to-date summary of the expanding field of their uses in environmental and earth sciences. Their abundance and wide distribution, and their well-preserved glass-like walls make them i... More

The present book "Management Techniques" has been designed to equip the students, scholars, managers and public services with the latest developments in Management Techniques including ethical and moral techniques. In the present edition of the book 12 New chapters have been added to make the work c... More

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers ' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants h... More

First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with information on their derivation and guides to pronunciation. A monumental index provides a cross-reference from some 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. Combines thoroughness, botanical rig... More

Father and son lumberjacks bring practical instruction and firsthand advice to every man with a chainsaw. For every lumberjack chore they offer advice on equipment and their humorous anecdotes and tales of tree adventure.For every man who has ever conjured up a picture of himself felling trees in a ... More

This spectacular guidebook details most of the cultivated members of this intriguing family, from Banksia to Grevillea to Mimetes, not just the single genus Protea. The author's expertise and lifelong passion for proteas is clear in both the text descriptions and photographs accompanying these entri... More

Hallmarked as the most successful text of its kind, this remarkably thorough book covers all aspects or the propagation of plants--both sexual and asexual--with considerable attention given to human (vs. natural) efforts to increase plant numbers. The text presents both the art and science of propag... More

From the reviews of the 3rd edition: "The textbook of Walter Larcher (...) belongs certainly to the most successful manuals that ever existed." "(Photosynthetica, Czech Republic)""(...) it continues to be one of the major texts in the field of ecophysiology.""(Plant Growth Regulation, The" "Netherla... More