Modern botany is a broad, multidisciplinary subject with inputs from most other areas of science and technology. Research topics include the study of plant structure, growth and differentiation, reproduction, biochemistry and primary metabolism, chemical products, development, diseases, evolutionary relationships, systematics, and plant taxonomy. Dominant themes in 21st century plant science are molecular genetics and epigenetics, which study the mechanisms and control of gene expression during differentiation of plant cells and tissues. Botanical research has diverse applications in providing staple foods, materials such as timber, oil, rubber, fibre and drugs, in modern horticulture, agriculture and forestry, plant propagation, breeding and genetic modification, in the synthesis of chemicals and raw materials for construction and energy production, in environmental management, and the maintenance of biodiversity.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Live Imaging of embryogenic structures in Brassica napus microspore embryo cultures highlights the developmental plasticity of induced totipotent cells
- Chapter 2
Quantitative methods in microscopy to assess pollen viability in different plant taxa
- Chapter 3
Comparative analyses of angiosperm secretomes identify apoplastic pollen tube functions and novel secreted peptides
- Chapter 4
Developmental basis for flower sex determination and effects of cytokinin on sex determination in Plukenetia volubilis (Euphorbiaceae)
- Chapter 5
In silico and expression analyses of fasciclin‑like arabinogalactan proteins reveal functional conservation during embryo and seed development
- Chapter 6
Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties
- Chapter 7
Effects of IBA on rooting ability of Cinnamomum bodinieri citral type micro‑shoots from transcriptomics analysis
- Chapter 8
GmNAC06, a NAC domain transcription factor enhances salt stress tolerance in soybean
- Chapter 9
Production of recombinant colicin M in Nicotiana tabacum plants and its antimicrobial activity
- Chapter 10
Targeted generation of polyploids in Hydrangea macrophylla through crossbased breeding
- Chapter 11
Effect of drought length on the performance of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var capitata) in the forest-savannah transition zone,Ghana
- Chapter 12
Living with floating vegetation invasions
- Chapter 13
Adaptive physiological and biochemical response of sugarcane genotypes to high-temperature stress
- Chapter 14
On the spore ornamentation of the microsoroid ferns (microsoroideae, polypodiaceae)
- Chapter 15
Phylogenetic analysis of plant multi‑domain SEC14‑like phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins and structure–function properties of PATELLIN2
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Plant Sciences
Patricia Corral-Martínez
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Lorenzo Ascari
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
María Flores-Tornero,
Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Ana Marta Pereira
Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Tomasz Sakowicz
Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lod, , Lodz, Poland
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