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Phytochemistry. Phytobiochemistry --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology

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In the coming years, farmers will face difficult challenges throughout the world in terms of climate change, water scarcity, and environmental issues caused by conventional agricultural technologies. Effective management of natural resources can be encouraged by orienting the common agricultural practices towards the functional biodiversity concept in designing and implementing sustainable and eco-friendly cropping systems. In the framework of polycrop science, this book provides basic principles and several case studies of polycrop utilization in various regions of the world as a method of functional biodiversity amplification through species associations that maximize the productivity per unit of land area, suppress the growth and development of weeds, and reduce the amount of harmful pests and insects.

Plant competition. --- Competition (Biology) --- Plant ecology --- Life Sciences --- Agronomy --- Agricultural and Biological Sciences --- Agroecology

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This handbook covers the most commonly used techniques for measuring plant response to biotic and abiotic stressing factors, including: in vitro and in vivo bioassays; the study of root morphology, photosynthesis (pigment content, net photosynthesis, respiration, fluorescence and thermoluminiscence) and water status; thermal imaging; the measurement of oxidative stress markers; flow cytometry for measuring cell cycle and other physiological parameters; the use of microscope techniques for studying plant microtubules; programmed-cell-death, and other parameters; last-generation techniques (metabolomics, proteomics, SAR/QSAR); hybridization methods; isotope techniques for plant and soil studies; and the measurement of detoxification pathways, volatiles, soil microorganisms, and computational biology. Every chapter is focused on the measurement of a parameter from a very practical point of view, including its use in plant ecophysiology and the meaning of the results that can be obtained.

Plant ecophysiology. --- Environmental plant physiology --- Physiological plant ecology --- Plant physiological ecology --- Ecophysiology --- Plant ecology --- Plant physiology --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant physiology. --- Biochemistry. --- Cell physiology. --- Agriculture. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Cell Physiology. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Cell function --- Cytology --- Physiology --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Composition --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Plant ecology. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Floristic ecology

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This book highlights classification patterns and underlying ecological drivers structuring the vegetation of selected indigenous subtropical forests in South Africa. It uses original field sampling and advanced numerical data analysis to examine three major types of forest – Albany Coastal Forests, Pondoland Coastal Scarp and Eastern Scarp – all of which are of high conservation value. Offering a unique and systematic assessment of South African ecology in unprecedented detail, the book could serve as a model for future vegetation surveys of forests not only in Africa, but also around the globe.

Nature protection --- Botan. systematics, taxonomy, nomencl. --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Forestry --- systematische plantkunde --- bosbouw --- biodiversiteit --- sociale ecologie --- biogeografie --- ecologie --- natuurbescherming --- bossen --- South Africa

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This book focuses on the fundamentals of plant physiology for undergraduate and graduate students. It consists of 34 chapters divided into five major units. Unit I discusses the unique mechanisms of water and ion transport, while Unit II describes the various metabolic events essential for plant development that result from plants’ ability to capture photons from sunlight, to convert inorganic forms of nutrition to organic forms and to synthesize high energy molecules, such as ATP. Light signal perception and transduction works in perfect coordination with a wide variety of plant growth regulators in regulating various plant developmental processes, and these aspects are explored in Unit III. Unit IV investigates plants’ various structural and biochemical adaptive mechanisms to enable them to survive under a wide variety of abiotic stress conditions (salt, temperature, flooding, drought), pathogen and herbivore attack (biotic interactions). Lastly, Unit V addresses the large number of secondary metabolites produced by plants that are medicinally important for mankind and their applications in biotechnology and agriculture. Each topic is supported by illustrations, tables and information boxes, and a glossary of important terms in plant physiology is provided at the end. .

Plant physiology. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant breeding. --- Plant genetics. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plants --- Genetics --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Botany --- Ecology --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Physiology --- Structure --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Development. --- Plant development. --- Plant ecology. --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Ontogeny --- Floristic ecology