Highlighting the complexity and applications of plant bioactive metabolites in organic and medicinal chemistry, this book overviews plant biodiversity as a source of new drugs and drug discovery strategies.[...]

Completely revised, expanded and updated new edition of popular book Covers all the latest developments in a succinct and user-friendly format Expansion of author base to include Hugo Campos, based at agricultural company Monsanto Essential reading for all upper level students studying plant bree[...]

To respond to the increasing need to feed the world's population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants. The strategies used to produce these are increasingly base[...]

The latest edition of this highly successful textbook introduces the key techniques and concepts involved in cloning genes and in studying their expression and variation.
The new edition features:
Increased coverage of whole-genome sequencing technologies and enhanced treatment of bioinformat[...]

Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predi[...]

Transposable elements, or transposons, make up a significant proportion of the genetic material found in a plant genomes. Now recognized for their ability to illuminate the evolving nature of plants and their day-to-day function, transposable elements are a key component of molecular and genetic res[...]