Tag: Plant

The New Plant Collector The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey


Free Download The New Plant Collector: The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey by Darryl Cheng
English | April 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1419761501 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 41.87 MB
Darryl Cheng, bestselling author of The New Plant Parent, is back with the first book for indoor gardeners who want to step up from basic plant care to creating rewarding plant collections.

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Plant-Pest Interactions From Molecular Mechanisms to Chemical Ecology Chemical Ecology


Free Download Indrakant K. Singh, "Plant-Pest Interactions: From Molecular Mechanisms to Chemical Ecology: Chemical Ecology"
English | ISBN: 9811524661 | 2021 | 484 pages | PDF | 10 MB
As food producers, plants are constantly under attack by insects. Over the course of evolution, plants have not only developed a sophisticated defense apparatus but have also refined biochemical defense mechanisms to protect themselves, thereby maintaining the ecological balance. Plant-pest interactions induce an elaborate array of reactions involving the release of volatile compounds, effector and signaling molecules, trans-membrane proteins, and a variety of enzymes and hormones.

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Plant-Animal Interactions Source of Biodiversity


Free Download Kleber Del-Claro, "Plant-Animal Interactions: Source of Biodiversity"
English | ISBN: 3030668762 | 2021 | 371 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and professors. It discusses a range of topics from the basic structures of plant-animal interactions to their evolutionary implications in producing and maintaining biodiversity. It also highlights innovative aspects of plant-animal interactions that can represent highly productive research avenues, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in a future career in ecology. Written by leading experts, and employing a variety of didactic tools, the book is useful for students and teachers involved in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses addressing areas such as herbivory, trophic relationships, plant defense, pollination and biodiversity.

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Plant and Animal Endemism in California


Free Download Susan Harrison, "Plant and Animal Endemism in California"
English | 2013 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 0520275543 | ASIN: B00CSNHE5Q, B011SJ7IP6 | EPUB | 12,4 mb
California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special powers of its Mediterranean-type climate, and the historic and modern barriers to the wider dispersal of its flora and fauna. Plant and Animal Endemism in California compiles and synthesizes a wealth of data on this singular subject, providing new and updated lists of native species, comparing patterns and causes of both plant and animal endemism, and interrogating the classic explanations proposed for the state’s special significance in light of new molecular evidence. Susan Harrison also offers a summary of the innovative tools that have been developed and used in California to conserve and protect this stunning and imperiled diversity.

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