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Books in Agricultural and biological sciences

The Agricultural and Biological Sciences collection advances science-based knowledge for the improvement of animal and plant life and for secure food systems that produce nutritious, novel, sustainable foods with minimal environmental impact. Food Science titles include not only those products from agriculture but all other aspects from food production to nutrition, health and safety, chemistry to security, policy, law and regulation. Biological Sciences address animal behaviour and biodiversity, organismal and evolutionary biology, entomology, marine biology and aquaculture, plant science and forestry.

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  • Fundamentals of transport phenomena in porous media

    Based on the proceedings of the first International Symposium on the Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, 23-28 February, 1969
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Advances in Ecological Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • Advances in Marine Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Advances in Agronomy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Cambial Growth, Root Growth, and Reproductive Growth

    • 1st Edition
    • T.T. Kozlowski
    • English
    Growth and Development of Trees, Volume II: Cambial growth, Root Growth, and Reproductive Growth describes the important features of growth and development of trees and other woody plants during their life cycles. This nine-chapter book highlights the significant changes that take place in vegetative and reproductive growth as woody plants progress from juvenility to adulthood and, finally, to a senescent state. The first four chapters cover the growth of tree cambium, which is a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem. These chapters examine the variation, control, and measurement of cambial growth. The next two chapters look into the growth mechanism of specialized and modified root systems, such as aerial, grafted, knee, and nodulated roots, root buttresses, mycorrhiza, and pneumatophores. These chapters also discuss the distribution and growth characteristics of roots of woody plants. Other chapters explore the significant changes and features during flowering and fruit, cone, and seed development. The last chapter considers some aspects of internal and external control of reproductive growth at critical stages of development. Some practical methods for stimulating fruit and seed production by trees are also provided. This book will be of great value to arborists, foresters, horticulturists, plant ecologists, plant physiologists, plant anatomists, tree breeders and geneticists, plant pathologists, entomologists, soil scientists, meteorologists, and landscape architects. It is also intended for upper level undergraduate and graduate students.

  • Advances in Marine Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • Advances in Botanical Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Advances in Ecological Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

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