Overview
- Available in both print and online
- The online text will be regularly updated to enable the reference to remain a useful authoritative resource
- Contains ten comprehensive volumes, with approximately 20-30 chapters per volume
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Plant Sciences (PLANTSCI, volume 2)
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Table of contents (13 entries)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, plant biology is considered from the perspective of plants and their surrounding environment, including both biotic and abiotic interactions. The intended audience is undergraduate students in the middle or final phases of their programs of study. Topics are developed to provide a rudimentary understanding of how plant-environment interactions span multiple spatiotemporal scales, and how this rudimentary knowledge can be applied to understand the causes of ecosystem vulnerabilities in the face of global climate change and expansion of natural resource use by human societies. In all chapters connections are made from smaller to larger scales of ecological organization, providing a foundation for understanding plant ecology. Where relevant, environmental threats to ecological systems are identified and future research needs are discussed. As future generations take on the responsibility for managing ecosystem goods and services, one of the most effective resources that can be passed on is accumulated knowledge of how organisms, populations, species, communities and ecosystems function and interact across scales of organization. Molecular Biology is intended to provide some of that knowledge, and hopefully provide those generations with the ability to avoid some of the catastrophic environmental mistakes that prior generations have made.
Reviews
“This volume is part of a comprehensive, ten-volume series on current research and perspectives in plant sciences … . Howell (Iowa State Univ.) starts each chapter with an abstract of bulleted points that summarizes the key points in that chapter, allowing the reader to determine quickly which subtopics are covered. … it will certainly be very useful to graduate students and researchers. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty.” (L. M. Baird, Choice, Vol. 52 (12), August, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Iowa State University, Plant Sciences Institute, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Department, Ames, IA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Biology
Editors: Stephen H. Howell
Series Title: The Plant Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7570-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7569-9Published: 01 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7570-5Published: 01 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 415
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Sciences, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Pathology