This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes. The account of the history of such changes and turmoil in India and abroad starts in the prehistoric period, long before the emergence of “Rigveda”, the first human written work. The book describes the writings of Aristotle and …
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Agroecosystem Design -- Chapter3: The Agroecological Matrix -- Chapter4: Agrotechnologies -- Chapter 5: Productive Intercropping -- Chapter6: Feed Systems and Facilitative Intercrops -- Chapter7: Complex Agroecosystems -- Chapter8: Risk -- Chapter9: Landscape Agroecology -- Chapter10: Advanced Economics -- Chapter11: Macro-Challenges -- Chapter12: Summary.Thi…
A Method of Collection, Preservation and Identification of Marine Zooplankton -- Seasonal composition and diversity of copepods from Muthupet mangrove wetland ecosystem, Southeast coast of India -- DNA barcoding of copepods -- A method of Bio-efficacy Potential of Zooplankton (Copepod) for the Control of Vector Mosquitoes -- Techniques in collection, preservation and morphological identificatio…
An introduction to Plankton -- Methods of Collection, Preservation and Taxonomic Identification of Marine Phytoplankton -- Study on Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Analysis of Phytoplankton -- Replacement of Fishmeal with Arthospira (Spirulina) platensis and its Use in Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii Juvenile Production -- A Method of Bio-Efficacy Potential of Microalgae (Phytopl…
Chapter 1: An Insight into Mycorrhiza Involved in Building Soil Health (Swami) -- Chapter 2: Integrated Soil Fertility Management (Yadav) -- Chapter 3: Mulching: An option to Improve Sustainable Soil Health (Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 4: Biofertilizers -- Chapter 5: Microbiome of rhizospheric soil and vermicompost and their applications in soil fertility, pest and pathogen management for sustai…
Computer-Generated Plants - Introduction -- Plants - Botanical Description -- Some Mathematics -- Plants as Mathematical Objects -- Procedural Modeling - Programming of Plants -- Rule-Based Modeling - Single Plants are 'Emerging' -- Rule-Based Object Production - Interactive Modeling -- Modeling Terrain - The Basis -- Modeling Vegetation - A Landscape Evolves -- Rendering - Creating 'Virtual Re…
This book addresses the need to disseminate scientific knowledge of the complex world of spice plants to a wide audience of interest. It considers the economic usage of spices in several forms, as an ingredient for adding flavor, as a pot herb and as an additive for condiments such as ketchup, and mustard. Designed as a work of reference, it offers an easy to use systematic listing of internati…
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…
Section A -- Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) -- Somatic Embryogenesis and Genetic Transformation in Pinus radiata -- Douglas - Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) -- Omorika Spruce (Picea omorika) -- Somatic Embryogenesis in Picea glauca -- Protocol of Somatic Embryogenesis: Black Spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) -- Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) -- Protocol of Somatic Embryogenesis of Pinus…
Review -- A Life History Between Science and Philosophy -- Genetics -- Recombination: RNA — A Powerful Tool for Recombination and Regulated Expression of Genes -- Mutation: Sugar Signaling Mutants in Arabidopsis -- Cell Biology: The Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - A Genetic Model Organism -- Extranuclear Inheritance: Mitochondrial Genetics and Biogenesis -- Population Genetics: Biodive…