Desert Plants : Biology and Biotechnology - Ramawat, Kishan Gopal; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
General Biology -- Biodiversity, Biology and Conservation of Medicinal Plants of the Thar Desert -- Potentiality of Hydrocarbon Yielding Plants for Future Energy and Chemicals -- Biology and Biotechnological Advances in Jatropha curcas - a Biodiesel Plant -- Biology of Annual Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Desert Regions of China -- Soil Biology in Traditional Agroforestry Systems of the Indian Desert -- Aspects of Mycorrhizae in Desert Plants -- Anatomical Variations in the Woody Plants of Arid Areas -- Diversity and Conservation in the Cactus Family -- Reproductive Biology -- Reproductive Biology of Some Gum-Producing Indian Desert Plants -- Reproductive Biology of Cactaceae -- Parthenocarpy and Seed Production in Burseraceae -- Ecophysiological Studies -- Photosynthesis of C4 Desert Plants -- Polyamines and Plant Adaptation to Saline Environments -- Ecology of Inland Saline Plants -- Ecophysiology of Prosopis Species From the Arid Lands of Argentina: What Do We Know About Adaptation to Stressful Environments? -- Plant Growth Inhibitors From Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) -- Biotechnological Studies -- Genetic Variation in the Tunisian Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) -- Biology and Multiplication of Prosopis species Grown in the Thar Desert -- Biotechnology Advances in Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) -- Date Palm Cultivation in the Changing Scenario of Indian Arid Zones: Challenges and Prospects -- Runoff-Rainwater for Sustainable Desert Farming -- Biotechnological Approaches to Aphrodisiac Plants of Rajasthan, India.
Keywords: Plant physiology; Plant science; Botany; Physical geography; Plant breeding; Plant anatomy; Plant development; Agriculture; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Physical Geography; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Agriculture