Sunlight, air, water, and minerals help keep plants alive. But do you know how much water is needed for a seed to sprout? Or what a plant will do to find the light it needs? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help readers explore key science concepts.

Product Description: Plants use resources, i.e. carbon, nutrients, water and energy, either for growth or to defend themselves from biotic and abiotic stresses. This volume provides a timely understanding of resource allocation and its regulation in plants, linking the molecular with biochemical and physiological-level processes...read more

The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the diverse bacterial species of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB). The use of these bio-resources for the enhancement of crop productivity is gaining worldwide importance."Bacteria in Agrobiology: Stress Management" covers the major aspects on PGPR in amelioration of both abiotic and biotic stresses. PGPR mediated in priming of plant defense reactions, nutrient availability and management in saline and cold environment, hormonal signaling, ACC deaminase and its role in ethylene regulation under harsh conditions are suitably described.

Product Description: Simple text and color photographs depict how six types of plants grow, develop, and are used in the real world.

Product Description: Auxin is an important plant hormone that controls numerous aspects of development and physiology, including responses to light, tissue patterning, and organogenesis. It forms concentration gradients across various tissues throughout the plant and exerts its effects by binding to auxin binding proteins and regulating transcription of distinct sets of target genes...read more

Product Description: Little Science Stars is a fabulous 10 book series designed to give children the best start in science. Concise text combines with fantastic photography and illustrations, to create books that will challange children to figure things out for themselves...read more

Product Description: The study of plant growth processes, once the exclusive province of anatomists, has become multi-disciplinary, with major contributions being made by biochemists, ecophysiologists, and molecular biologists. This overview of trends in the field includes papers from specialists in all of the disciplines...read more

Explains where plants grow, how seeds turn into plants, and what plants need to grow properly.

Product Description: Easy-to-follow directions and pictures illustrate experiments that help readers better understand the needs of plants.

Product Description: Here, an extremely experienced team of authors from five different continents provides a timely review of progress in the use and exploitation of soil bacteria to improve crop and plant growth. They present novel ideas on how to grow better, more successful crops, in an environmentally sound way, making this invaluable reading for those working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and agricultural industries...read more

Product Description: What is a tropism? How do plants use hormones? What happens in a meristem? What do plants need to grow? How do they make their own food? What happens when they die? 'Plant Growth' provides the answers you want.

Evidence grows daily of the changing climate and its impact on plants and animals. Plant function is inextricably linked to climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. On the shortest and smallest scales, the climate affects the plant’s immediate environment and so directly influences physiological processes. At larger scales, the climate influences species distribution and community composition, as well as the viability of different crops in managed ecosystems. Plant growth also influences the local, regional and global climate, through the exchanges of energy and gases between the plants and the air around them. Plant Growth and Climate Change examines the major aspects of how anthropogenic climate change affects plants, focusing on several key determinants of plant growth: atmospheric CO2, temperature, water availability and the interactions between these factors. The book demonstrates the variety of techniques used across plant science: detailed physiology in controlled environments; observational studies based on long-term data sets; field manipulation experiments and modelling. It is directed at advanced-level university students, researchers and professionals across the range of plant science disciplines, including plant physiology, plant ecology and crop science. It will also be of interest to earth system scientists.

'An examination of the phenomena and scientific principles behind plant growth'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Tropisms, the defined vectorial stimuli, such as gravity, light, touch, humidity gradients, ions, oxygen, and temperature, which provide guidance for plant organ growth, is a rapidly growing and changing field. The last few years have witnessed a true renaissance in the analysis of tropisms...read more

Introduces important facts about plants --such as how they grow and derive nutrients from the environment--using charts and graphs to illustrate and highlight key points.

Explains how plants grow from seeds, develop into plants with leaves and flowers, and make the food they need to live.

Product Description: Spiraling Through Life with Fast Plants: An Inquiry-Rich Manual was developed to help high school teachers meet high school science standards by teaching inquiry-based science. It contains over 25 explorations in germination, growth and development, flowering, pollination, fertilization, and embryogenesis...read more

Product Description: Volume 72 is wholly dedicated to the topic of plant hormones. Although Vitamins and Hormones is normally dedicated to mammalian hormone action, this volume is unique to plants and their actions through receptors. The genetic aspects and the receptorology are reminiscent of the mammlian systems...read more

Product Description: Promoting an understanding of the role of the environment in plant growth and development, this unique plant science book offers its readers much more than the traditional focus topics of analyzing the industries and surveying important crops...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book is divided into three parts that are logically connected. The first part defines the principal characteristics of the subterranean world and describes the microorganisms that live there as well as the environmental constraints they are subjected to...read more

Easy rhyming text describes how plants grow and respond to seasonal changes.

One of a series of books which explores plants, their structures, life processes, adaptation, classification and uses. It includes key science discoveries through time and project ideas to reinforce scientific concepts.

Explains, in simple text and illustrations, the growth and development of plants, including how animals spread seeds, why flowers are important, and what happens to plants in winter.