Desert Plants

1. Biodiversity, Biology and Conservation of Medicinal Plants of the Thar Desert
Jaya Arora, Shaily Goyal, Kishan Gopal Ramawat

2. Potentiality of Hydrocarbon Yielding Plants for Future Energy and Chemicals
Dipul Kalita

3. Biology and Biotechnological Advances in Jatropha curcas – a Biodiesel Plant
Muppala P. Reddy, D. V. N. Sudheer Pamidimarri

4. Biology of Annual Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Desert Regions of China
Xuehua Li

5. Soil Biology in Traditional Agroforestry Systems of the Indian Desert
S. Sundaramoorthy, Santosh Kumar Mehar, Manohar Singh Suthar

6. Aspects of Mycorrhizae in Desert Plants
Martha E. Apple

7. Anatomical Variations in the Woody Plants of Arid Areas
Shumin Yang, Ikuo Furukawa, Zehui Jiang

8. Diversity and Conservation in the Cactus Family
Pablo Ortega-Baes, Silvia Sühring, Jesús Sajama, Ezequiel Sotola, Mariana Alonso-Pedano, Silvia Bravo, Héctor Godínez-Alvarez

9. Reproductive Biology of Some Gum-Producing Indian Desert Plants
Rajesh Tandon, K. R. Shivanna, H. Y. Mohan Ram

10. Reproductive Biology of Cactaceae
María del Carmen Mandujano, Israel Carrillo-Angeles, Concepción Martínez-Peralta, Jordan Golubov

11. Parthenocarpy and Seed Production in Burseraceae
María F. Ramos-Ordoñez, Judith Márquez-Guzmán, Ma. Coro Arizmendi

12. Photosynthesis of C4 Desert Plants
Peixi Su

13. Polyamines and Plant Adaptation to Saline Environments
Vladimir V. Kuznetsov, Nina I. Shevyakova

14. Ecology of Inland Saline Plants
Pawan K. Kasera, Sher Mohammed

15. 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

16. Plant Growth Inhibitors From Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora)
Hiroshi Nakano

17. Genetic Variation in the Tunisian Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
Soumaya Rhouma, Salwa Zehdi-Azouzi, Sonia Dakhlaoui-Dkhil, Ali Ould Mohamed Salem, Ahmed Othmani, Emira Cherif, Mohamed Marrakchi, Mokhtar Trifi

18. Biology and Multiplication of Prosopis species Grown in the Thar Desert
R. Raj Bhansali

19. Biotechnology Advances in Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis)
Muppala P. Reddy, Jitendra Chikara

20. Date Palm Cultivation in the Changing Scenario of Indian Arid Zones: Challenges and Prospects
R. Raj Bhansali

21. Runoff-Rainwater for Sustainable Desert Farming
Ulrich Lüttge

22. Biotechnological Approaches to Aphrodisiac Plants of Rajasthan, India
Neelam Jain, Shaily Goyal, Kishan Gopal Ramawat

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Agriculture, Plant Ecology