Biotechnology and plant protection in forestry science
By: editors, S.P. Raychaudhuri, Karl Maramorosch.
Contributors: Raychaudhuri, S. P. 1915-; Maramorosch, Karl.
Publisher: Science Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Enfield, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Forest products -- Biotechnology.; Forestry biotechnology.; Biotechnology.; Forest conservation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: Taxol: a review / Walter C. Shortle and Rakesh Minocha; Micropropagation and in vitro flowering of temperate and tropical woody bamboos / Johan Gielis; Phytoplasma diseases of forest and urban trees and shrubs in Canada and East Asia: biology, genomic diversity and management / C. Hiruki; The exploitation and utilization of glycyrrhiza / Chao Zhongyi ... [et al.]; Prospects of recent biotechnological advances in improvement of medicinal plants / Manojkumar M. Reddy and B.S. Nadagoudar; Biological control of weeds in relation to the maintenance of stable and productive ecosystems / Ronald E. Wall and Siraj Hasan; Mushroom cultivation and their protection in forests / S.P. Raychaudhuri; Extraction of natural pigments from edible forest and agricultural crops / Chao Zhongye, Jun Li and Ze Sun; Vegetation damage due to air pollution caused by the 1984 industrial accident in Bhopal / S.K. Ghosh, D.B. Boralkar and R.C. Trivedi; Biological control of forest pests in Romania / George Mihalache and Mircea Ciuhrii; Pine wilt disease, history, biological and biochemical mechanism of rapid wilting and its control / Hachiro Oku; Butternut canker: an international concern / V.M.G. Nair; Ecologically disturbed forests linked to new emerging human diseases / Karl Maramorosch.