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Desert Plants

Biology and Biotechnology

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. K.G. Ramawat

    1. Botany Dept., M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India

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  • Presents various aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scientific input aimed at understanding and improving the utility of these plants
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. General Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Biodiversity, Biology and Conservation of Medicinal Plants of the Thar Desert

      • Jaya Arora, Shaily Goyal, Kishan Gopal Ramawat
      Pages 3-36

    3. Potentiality of Hydrocarbon Yielding Plants for Future Energy and Chemicals

      • Dipul Kalita
      Pages 37-56

    4. Biology and Biotechnological Advances in Jatropha curcas – a Biodiesel Plant

      • Muppala P. Reddy, D. V. N. Sudheer Pamidimarri
      Pages 57-71

    5. Biology of Annual Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Desert Regions of China

      • Xuehua Li
      Pages 73-89

    6. Soil Biology in Traditional Agroforestry Systems of the Indian Desert

      • S. Sundaramoorthy, Santosh Kumar Mehar, Manohar Singh Suthar
      Pages 91-120

    7. Aspects of Mycorrhizae in Desert Plants

      • Martha E. Apple
      Pages 121-134

    8. Anatomical Variations in the Woody Plants of Arid Areas

      • Shumin Yang, Ikuo Furukawa, Zehui Jiang
      Pages 135-155

    9. Diversity and Conservation in the Cactus Family

      • Pablo Ortega-Baes, Silvia Sühring, Jesús Sajama, Ezequiel Sotola, Mariana Alonso-Pedano, Silvia Bravo et al.
      Pages 157-173

  3. Reproductive Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 176-176
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    2. Reproductive Biology of Some Gum-Producing Indian Desert Plants

      • Rajesh Tandon, K. R. Shivanna, H. Y. Mohan Ram
      Pages 177-195

    3. Reproductive Biology of Cactaceae

      • María del Carmen Mandujano, Israel Carrillo-Angeles, Concepción Martínez-Peralta, Jordan Golubov
      Pages 197-230

    4. Parthenocarpy and Seed Production in Burseraceae

      • María F. Ramos-Ordoñez, Judith Márquez-Guzmán, Ma. del Coro Arizmendi
      Pages 231-239

  4. Ecophysiological Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 242-242
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    2. Photosynthesis of C4 Desert Plants

      • Peixi Su
      Pages 243-259

    3. Polyamines and Plant Adaptation to Saline Environments

      • Vladimir V. Kuznetsov, Nina I. Shevyakova
      Pages 261-298

    4. Ecology of Inland Saline Plants

      • Pawan K. Kasera, Sher Mohammed
      Pages 299-320

    5. Ecophysiology of Prosopis Species From the Arid Lands of Argentina: What Do We Know About Adaptation to Stressful Environments?

      • Pablo E. Villagra, Alejandra Vilela, Carla Giordano, Juan A. Alvarez
      Pages 321-340

    6. Plant Growth Inhibitors From Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora)

      • Hiroshi Nakano
      Pages 341-352
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About this book

Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Botany Dept., M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India

    K.G. Ramawat

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