Plant Environment Interaction. 2011. pls. figs. illus. XII, 234 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Plants play a crucial and critical role in the maintenance of globalecological balance and in the operation of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen andwater cycles of the biosphere, vital for agriculture and for the sustenance of life on earth. All over the world, distruction of plantsis beginning to turn the ordinary seasonal weather into economic andecological disasters. The book deals with 16 contributions to this subject. Chapters included are: High temperature stress response in crops / Response of cyanobacteriato UV radiation / Assessment ofquaternary vegetation and climate of Kumaun Himalaya and Kaleidoscopicbehaviour of Spirulina under different culture conditions, etc.