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Tran, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan (Eds) Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan (Eds) Physiological Mechanisms and Improvement of Crops in the Improvement of Crops in the Adaptation Strategies in Plants Era of Climatic Changes Era of Climatic Changes Under Changing Environment Volume 1 Volume 1 Volume 2 Features Contents Nearly 70% of people suffering from hunger live 7 Written by a diverse group of internationally Citrus Rootstocks for Improving the Horticultural in rural areas, therefore the most relevant work in known scholars 7 Latest results, techniques, Performance and Physiological Responses under plant science is on increasing agricultural produc- and methods of plant mechanism and adaptation Constraining Environments.- Role of Silicon in tivity. 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Respiratory Pathway and Residual Respiration in Research Abiotic Stress Responses. Fields of interest Product category Plant Sciences; Plant Physiology; Plant Breeding/ Fields of interest Contributed volume Biotechnology Plant Sciences; Plant Physiology; Plant Breeding/ Biotechnology Target groups Research Target groups Research Product category Contributed volume Product category Contributed volume Due November 2013 Due December 2013 Due October 2013 2014. X, 418 p. 30 illus., 19 in color. Hardcover 2014. 300 p. Hardcover 2013. X, 608 p. 68 illus., 42 in color. Hardcover 7 $209.00 7 approx. $209.00 7 $209.00 ISBN 978-1-4614-8829-3 ISBN 978-1-4614-8823-1 ISBN 978-1-4614-8590-2 9<HTMERB=eiicjd> 9<HTMERB=eiicdb> 9<HTMERB=eifjac> 152 News 9/2013 Life Sciences P. Ahmad, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, India; U. P. Albuquerque, Universidade Federal Rural de N. M. Allewell, University of Maryland, College M. R. Wani, Anantnag College, Srinagar, India (Eds) Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; L. V. Cruz da Cunha, Park, MD, USA; L. O. Narhi, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; Oaks, CA, USA; I. Rayment, University of Wisconsin - Physiological Mechanisms and R. F. Lucena, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, Madison, Madison, WI, USA (Eds) Adaptation Strategies in Plants Brazil; R. R. Alves, Universidade Estadual da Paraiba, Molecular Biophysics for the Under Changing Environment Campina Grande, Brazil (Eds) Methods and Techniques Life Sciences Volume 2 in Ethnobiology and This volume provides an overview of the develop- Features ment and scope of molecular biophysics and 7 Written by a diverse group of internationally Ethnoecology in-depth discussions of the major experimental methods that enable biological macromolecules to known scholars 7 Latest results, techniques, Contents and methods of plant mechanism and adaptation be studied at atomic resolution. Selection of Research Participants.- Methods to stress research 7 Climate change discussion and Techniques Used to Collect Ethnobiological related to this important subject Features Data.- Participatory Methods in Ethnobiologi- 7 Provides an overview of major research themes Contents cal and Ethnoecological Research.- Oral History and research strategies in contemporary molecular Biochemical and Molecular Approaches for in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology.- Procedures biophysics 7 Introduces new investigators to Drought Tolerance in Plants.- Heavy-Metal At- for Documentary Analysis in the Establishment major areas of biophysics 7 Explains the goals of tack on Freshwater Side: Physiological Defense of Ethnobiological Information.- Use of Visual biophysical research, while offering the tools avail- Strategies of Macrophytes and Ecotoxicological Stimuli in Ethnobiological Research.- Methods in able for investigation, the relevance of biological Ops.- Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Research of Environmental Perception.- Methods research to other fields, and future opportunities Stress in Plants: Biosynthesis, Regulation and for Data Collection in Medical Ethnobiology.- In- in the field Function.- Major Phytohormones under Abiotic troduction to Botanical Taxonomy.- Analysis of Stress.- Nitric Oxide: Role in Plants under Abiotic Vegetation in Ethnobotanical Studies.- Techniques Contents Stress.- Brassinosteroids: Improving Crop Produc- for Collecting and Processing Plant Material and Introduction: Molecular Biophysics and the Life tivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Ethylene: Role their Application in Ethnobotany Research.- Sciences.- Structural, Physical, and Chemical in Plants under Environmental Stress.- Scenario An Introduction to Zoological Taxonomy and Principles.- Part I. 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