Root nitrogen acquisition and assimilation -- Phosphate acquisition -- Root-based N2-fixing symbioses: Legumes, actinorhizal plants, Parasponia sp. and cycads -- Mycorrhizas: Gene to function -- Cluster roots: A curiosity in context -- The roots of carnivorous plants -- Roles of aquaporins in root responses to irrigation -- Mechanisms of plant resistance to metal and metalloid ions and potentia…
Regulation of Respiration In Vivo -- Calorespirometry in Plant Biology -- The Application of the Oxygen-Isotope Technique to Assess Respiratory Pathway Partitioning -- Respiration in Photosynthetic Cells: Gas Exchange Components, Interactions with Photorespiration and the Operation of Mitochondria in the Light -- Effects of Light Intensity and Carbohydrate Status on Leaf and Root Respiration --…
Antixenosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Behavior -- Antibiosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Biology -- Tolerance - The Effect of Plant Growth Characters on Arthropod Resistance -- Locating Sources of Resistance -- Techniques to Measure Resistance -- Factors Affecting the Expression of Plant Resistance to Arthropods -- Inheritance of Arthropod Resistance -- Const…
In Vitro Androgenesis: Events Preceding Its Cytological Manifestation -- Doubled Haploids: A Powerful Biotechnological Tool for Genetic Enhancement in Oilseed Brassicas -- Double Fertilisation in vitro and Transgene Technology -- Polymorphism of Sexual and Somatic Embryos as Manifestation of Their Developmental Parallelism under Natural Conditions and in Tissue Culture -- Molecular Biology and …
Soil Factors Affecting Nutrient Bioavailability -- Decomposition and Mineralization of Nutrients from Litter and Humus -- Integrated Root Responses to Variations in Nutrient Supply -- Internal Regulation of Nutrient Uptake by Relative Growth Rate and Nutrient-Use Efficiency -- Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Angiosperms in Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Homeostatic Processes for the Opt…
Production and Biological Nitrogen Fixation of Tropical Legumes -- Nitrogen Fixation by Soybean in North America -- The Importance of Nitrogen Fixation to Soybean Cropping in South America -- Production, Regional Distribution of Cultivars, and Agricultural Aspects of Soybean in India -- Soybean Cultivation and BBF in China -- Soil Stress Factors Influencing Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation -- Nodula…
Basics -- The Principle: Identification and Application of Molecular Markers -- Genotyping Tools in Plant Breeding: From Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms -- A Model Crop Species: Molecular Markers in Rice -- From Markers to Cloned Genes: Map-Based Cloning -- Specific Crops -- DNA Markers in Brassica: Use of Genetic Information from Arabidopsis and Dev…
Asaresultofvarioushumanactivities,suchasincreaseinhumanpopulation,decrease in arable land due to soil degradation, urbanization, industrialization and associated increase in the demand for livestock products, dramatic changes are occurring in the global ruminant livestock sector. These changes includeshift inthesize of regional livestock populations and in the types of management and feeding sy…
Lotus japonicus’s a model system -- Lotus-related species and their agronomic importance -- Drought and saline stress -- Methods for studying nodule development and function -- A procedure for in vitro nodulation studies -- Arbuscular mycorrhiza -- Concurrent visualization of gusA and lacZ reporter gene expression -- Embedding root and nodule tissue in plastic (BMM) -- RNA isolation using pha…
General introduction: a personal reflection on the use of liquid media for in vitro culture -- Bioreactors -- Application of bioreactor design principles to plant micropropagation -- Bioreactor design for propagation of somatic embryos -- Practical aspects of bioreactor application in mass propagation of plants -- Simple bioreactors for mass propagation of plants -- Application of bioreactor sy…