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Whether you want to cultivate the classic English rose or grow a crop of climbing French beans, choose plants with confidence with this handy, pocket-sized guide. It recommends over 3,000 trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, bedding plants, fruits and vegetables for every garden situation. Over 1,500 colour photographs and descriptions of AGM plants - all readily available from nurseries and garden centres - will ensure your garden flourishes all year round. ... Read more

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A useful book.
Useful book. Good photography. Can recommend it. Size is good too and you can carry it with you. Has reference material. ... Read more

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David Joyce looks at a range of garden situations - dry sunny beds, rock gardens or shady borders - and shows how an understanding of the growing conditions and an informed choice of plants is the first step to a natural looking garden' ... Read more

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Plants are superb synthesizers of organic compounds, producing an extensive range of products from the simple building blocks of carbon dioxide, water and inorganic ions.These secondary products are widely used in commerce, particularly the food and pharmaceutical industries.Recent advances in the techniques of plant biotechnology and genetic engineering have increased the potential of plant cell cultures as an important source of these compounds. Researchers are now beginning to understand the factors that control the expression and regulation of genes involved in the synthesis, transport, storage and metabolism of natural products.This volume contains contributions from eminent researchers who provide an up-to-date review of current work in this field and detail the exciting advances now being made. ... Read more

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Based on a British Mycological Society Symposium held in September 1988, this book provides a timely review of the increasingly diverse ways in which fungi are being used to improve plant growth and examines the reasons for the rapid advancement in their commercialization. Reflecting the increasing interest in biocontrol, a significant proportion of the book considers fungi as biocontrol agents, examining their specific use in the control of weeds, parasitic insects, nematodes, and plant pathogenic fungi, as well as covering more general commercial and environmental aspects. Relevant techniques in molecular biology are described and the use of mutualistic symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi for the improvement of plant growth are also included. This book will be useful to research workers, advanced students and teachers of mycology, plant pathology and crop protection. ... Read more

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Plants convert inorganic nitrogen into amino acids, the building blocks for proteins. They also make a wide range of other nitrogen compounds to help protect themselves from pests and diseases. An understanding of these compounds can therefore help in devising better crop protection and production methods. This volume contains essays by scientists who have studied aspects of plant nitrogen nutrition and amino acid biosynthesis. There are chapters on protein amino acids, nonprotein amino acids, betaines, glutathione, polyamines, and other secondary metabolites derived from amino acids. The results of these studies will be of interest to graduate students and professionals in biochemistry and botany. ... Read more

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The subject of this volume is Phytophthora, the organism responsible for many plant diseases, most notably potato blight.This wide-ranging book presents the results of a symposium, and incorporates chapters on the history of potato blight, host-pathogen reactions, systematics and intraspecific variation, molecular and genetic studies, and the development of effective control methods. ... Read more

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Coupled with biomechanical data, organic geochemistry and cladistic analyses utilizing abundant genetic data, scientific studies are revealing new facets of how plants have evolved over time. This collection of papers examines these early stages of plant physiology evolution by describing the initial physiological adaptations necessary for survival as upright structures in a dry, terrestrial environment. The Evolution of Plant Physiology also encompasses physiology in its broadest sense to include biochemistry, histology, mechanics, development, growth, reproduction and with an emphasis on the interplay between physiology, development and plant evolution.

* Contributions from leading neo- and palaeo-botanists from the Linnean Society
* Focus on how evolution shaped photosynthesis, respiration, reproduction and metabolism.
* Coverage of the effects of specific evolutionary forces -- variations in water and nutrient availability, grazing pressure, and other environmental variables ... Read more

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Post-translational modification of proteins, or what occurs after a protein has been synthesized by the cell, are now known to play a fundamental role in regulating the activity, location and function of a wide range of proteins. In plant cells work on different types of post-translational modifications has progressed largely along independent lines. This book brings research workers together to allow an exchange of ideas, and reflects a diversity of interest while also revealing common ground. An introductory chapter reviewing recent progress in the field is followed by reviews of protein phosphorylation in bacteria and animals, which provide a useful perspective on this subject in plants. Consideration is then given to plant protein kinases and the processes they control. Acylation and glycosylation, and their functions in protein targeting and folding are reviewed, along with the roles of glycoproteins in plant development and of ubiquitination in plant senescence. ... Read more

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Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation play key roles in many aspects of plant growth, including control of cell division, pathways of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, and signal transduction. This book is the first attempt to cover all aspects of this rapidly expanding area of researchin a single volume. It includes work from key groups at the forefront of research in this area, with studies at the biochemical, molecular, and cell biological levels. ... Read more

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This book serves the urgent need to review the exciting developments and increasing research interest in this area, placing these within the context of our broader understanding of carbohydrate metabolism in higher plants. Plant Carbohydrate Biochemistry provides an integrated collection of definitive assessments, and synthesizes the disparate information appearing in primary research publications. The contributors to the book are established plant biochemists and physiologists chosen as much for their lucid exposition as for their scientific eminence. ... Read more

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How far have the whole complex series of interactions between plants and animals influenced the evolutionary progression of each group? The topics dealt with here range from the fossil evidence for the earliest assault of the arthropods on the first land plants, to biochemical warfare between plant and herbivore, as each group has been driven to respond to the innovations of the other. Vertebrates and insects have, in their different ways, undergone major modifications of their structure, and particularly their mouthparts and gut, to cope with a vegetarian diet. But equally, the impact of browsing and gazing has forced higher plants to modify their programme of growth to cope with losing parts of the whole. This may have been one of the main forces favouring a flexible modular growth programme, rather than a determinate one. This collection of papers, together with the discussion that they provoked, is taken from a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held in February 1991.It records the state of development of one of the fast-growing areas of biology and brings together such diverse fields as biochemistry, palaeontology, cell biology, mammal and insect behavioural studies, plant development and pollination biology. ... Read more