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This book comprising 13 chapters, is the second of the four books
planned for a series on Progress in Mycological Research. The
chapters provide an overview of the progress and shifts that have
taken place towards the understanding of the Systematics and
Evolution of Fungi with the availability of modern tools and
techniques. Most major groups of fungi such as the Chytridiomycota,
Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota have been attempted to be
covered. Advances in morphological and molecular taxonomy of highly
toxigenic Fusarium species and understanding the phylogeny of the
alternarioid hyphomycetes have also been dealt with in their
respective chapters. Methods used in fungal evolutionary biology,
their theory, examples and potential applications, and proteomics
research for rapid diagnosis to invasive candidiasis have been
reviewed in two different chapters. The ways in which molecular
biologists and morphosystematists can develop synergy between them
has been elaborated in the introductory chapter.
Biological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow
'underestimated'. It is even quite difficult to speak of biological
literature for this period at all: biology (apart from medicine)
did not represent, indeed, a specific 'subgenre' of scientific
literature. Nevertheless, writings as disparate as Philo of
Alexandria's Alexander, Plutarch's De sollertia animalium or Bruta
ratione uti, Aelian's De Natura Animalium, Oppian's Halieutika,
Pseudo-Oppian's Kynegetika, and Basil of Caeserea's Homilies on the
Creation engage with zoological, anatomic, or botanical questions.
Poikile Physis examines how such writings appropriate, adapt,
classify, re-elaborate and present biological knowledge which
originated within the previous, mainly Aristotelian, tradition. It
offers a holistic approach to these works by considering their
reception of scientific material, their literary as well as
rhetorical aspects, and their interaction with different
socio-cultural conditions. The result of an interdisciplinary
discussion among scholars of Greek studies, philosophy and history
of science, the volume provides an initial analysis of forms and
functions of biological literature in the imperial period.
There has been considerable interest in berries recently, as their
health-related, culinary, and biological properties have driven new
initiatives in berry breeding and production. Breakthroughs in
molecular technologies allow genomics-enabled approaches to augment
research efforts. This volume documents the basic botany and
culture of four major berry crops and then follows the scientific
milestones that have ushered these systems into the modern genomics
era. Leading researchers in each crop system detail the recent
findings in genetics, genomics, and breeding that seek to improve
sustainable cultivation, fruit quality, and availability.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In order to
function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical
compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a
large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function,
and these chemicals have multiple practical uses in the human world
as well, with applications to agriculture, forestry, and
horticulture. This book presents an important collection of
research and studies on the physiology of photosynthesis.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This volume
includes the latest research into the diseases that affect
non-vascular plants. The chapters bring to light the most recent
studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease
cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease
resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals,
pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases. The
information provided here helps readers to stay current with this
field's ongoing research and ever-developing knowledge base.
Plant Regeneration from Seeds: A Global Warming Perspective
comprehensively reviews the effects caused by climate change on
global plant regeneration, growth and seed germination. Initial
chapters discuss specific geographical regions such as steppes, the
artic, boreal and alpine zones, dry and tropical forests and
deserts. Subsequent chapters explore special seed-related topics
like fire, soil seed banks, crops, weed emergence, and invasive
species Written by leaders in the field of seed germination and
plant growth, this is an essential read for researchers and
academics interested in plant growth, plant regeneration, seed
germination and the effects of these in relation to climate change.
Plant diseases are a serious threat to food production. This unique
volume provides the fundamental knowledge and practical use of
B.subtilis as a promising biocontrol agent. In order to replace
chemical pesticides, one possibility is microbial pesticides using
safe microbes. Bacillus subtilis is one of several candidates.
Screening of the bacterium, the application of plant tests,
clarification of its suppressive mechanism to plant pathogens and
engineering aspects of suppressive peptides production are
presented here. The author illustrates how B. subtilis is far more
advantageous than, for example, Pseudomonas in biocontrol and can
be considered as an useful candidate. Features: Bacterium B.
subtilis suppresses many plant pathogens and is a biocontrol agent
to replace chemical pesticides The book presents the bacterium's
suppressive mechanism to plant pathogens, and engineering aspects
of suppressive peptides production Biological control of plant
disease plays an important role in sustainable agricultural
production practices and is expected to replace agricultural
chemicals
This volume looks at the importance of medicinal plants and their
potential benefits for human health, providing insight with
scientific evidence on the use of functional foods in the treatment
and management of certain diseases. Divided into four sections, the
volume covers the assessment and identification of medicinal
plants, the role of medicinal plants in disease management, the
ethnobotany and phytochemistry of medicinal plants, and novel
applications of plants. Assessment of Medicinal Plants for Human
Health: Phytochemistry, Disease Management, and Novel Applications
sheds light on the potential of certain plants and will be of value
to faculty and advanced-level students of natural products, food
science, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, and biochemistry. It will
also be of interest to researchers in the area of drug discovery
and development.
WILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction 2022 Spur Award
Winner 2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year New
Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist in Cover Design Honorable
Mention in the At-Large NFPW Communications Contest The Forgotten
Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was
driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the
West-alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa
Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town's
first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill
Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant
species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished artist.
Although she became an acknowledged botanical expert and lecturer,
Sara's considerable contributions to scientific knowledge were
credited merely as "J.G. Lemmon & wife." The Forgotten Botanist
chronicles Sara's remarkable life, in which she and JG found new
plant species in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Mexico and
traveled throughout the Southwest with such friends as John Muir
and Clara Barton. Sara also found time to work as a journalist and
as an activist in women's suffrage and forest conservation. The
Forgotten Botanist is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered
who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is
one of resilience, determination, and courage-and is as relevant to
our nation today as it was in her own time.
Dramatic advances in computing power enable simulation of DNA
sequences generated by complex microevolutionary scenarios that
include mutation, population structure, natural selection, meiotic
recombination, demographic change, and explicit spatial
geographies. Although retrospective, coalescent simulation is
computationally efficient-and covered here-the primary focus of
this book is forward-in-time simulation, which frees us to simulate
a wider variety of realistic microevolutionary models. The book
walks the reader through the development of a forward-in-time
evolutionary simulator dubbed FORward Time simUlatioN Application
(FORTUNA). The capacity of FORTUNA grows with each chapter through
the addition of a new evolutionary factor to its code. Each chapter
also reviews the relevant theory and links simulation results to
key evolutionary insights. The book addresses visualization of
results through development of R code and reference to more than
100 figures. All code discussed in the book is freely available,
which the reader may use directly or modify to better suit his or
her own research needs. Advanced undergraduate students, graduate
students, and professional researchers will all benefit from this
introduction to the increasingly important skill of population
genetic simulation.
This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan
Landscapes. Solutions are needed to meet the demand of the citizens
of a renewed metropolitan region landscape. It opens up discussions
about possible toolkits for strategic actions based on
understanding the territory from geographical, urban,
architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy
perspectives. This book intends to promote the Metropolitan
dwelling quality, ensuring human well-being proposing a discussion
on the resilient articulation of the interface space among the
city's infrastructure, agriculture, and nature. This book results
from the Symposium: Metropolitan Landscapes that MSLab of the
Politecnico di Milano and ETSA (Sevilla) organized at the IALE 2019
Conference (Milan, July 2019) to manage radical territory
transformation with a strategic vision. The widespread growth of
urban areas indicates the importance of building resilient
sustainable cities capable of minimizing climate-change impact
production. The Symposium aimed to discuss the Urban Metabolism
approach considering the combination of Landscapes set in a single
Metropolitan Ecosystem. Accordingly, new design strategies of
transformation, replacement or maintenance can compose Urban-Rural
Linkage patterns and a decalage of different landscape contexts.
Ecological interest in environmental sustainability, compatibility,
and resilience is not tied exclusively to the balance between
production and energy consumption. Thus, it is the integration over
time and at several scales of the urban and rural landscapes and
their inhabitants that nourish the Metropolitan Bioregion.
Moreover, the Metropolitan Landscape Book's research hypothesis is
the need for a Glossary, strengthening the basis of understanding
Metropolitan Landscape's complexity. This book's topic is
particularly relevant to Landscape Urbanism, Architecture, Urban
disciplines Scholars, Students and Practitioners who want to be
connected in a significant way with Metropolitan Discipline's
research field.
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