Botany

California, the third largest state in the U.S., is home to one of the most diverse and captivating collections of plant life found anywhere in the world. A California Flora serves as an in-depth gui …

Some of the most spectacular and famous spring wildflower displays in California occur in the state’s deserts. In fact, California’s deserts support a surprisingly rich diversity of plants and animal …

If you are curious about the useful medicinal plants from nature, wondering what food may be useful to health, and which edible medicinal plants you can grow in your garden, this book is for you! The …

Plants are forced to adapt for a variety of reasons– protection, reproductive viability, and environmental and climatic changes. Computational tools and molecular advances have provided researchers …

Hemp and cannabis, both belonging to Cannabis sativa, have emerged as some of the most valuable crops because of their multiple functionalities – industrial, medicinal, and recreational uses. Like al …

OGENOTYPING BY SEQUENCING FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT A thoroughly up-to-date exploration of genotyping-by-sequencing technologies and related methods in plant science In Genotyping by Sequencing for Crop I …

From antiquity until today, trees and woods have inspired artists, writers and scientists; they have shaped cultures and reverberated through belief systems. Yet worldwide forest cover has declined d …

If you have tried to identify wildflowers, you’ll already know exactly what is meant by the title of this book. Although a lot of plants are relatively straightforward to recognise, many others are n …

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today …

PLANTS AS BIOREACTORS FOR INDUSTRIAL MOLECULES An incisive and practical discussion of how to use plants as bioreactors In Plants as Bioreactors for Industrial Molecules, a team of distinguished rese …