In horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants' reproductive physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables, the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant physiology, including plants' reproductive systems, are important to the production of food, fibers, medicine, cosmetics, and even fuels. This volume presents many new studies on plants' reproductive systems, including new research on sperm cells in plant reproduction; the effect of herbivory on plant reproduction; disturbances to functional diversity; plant genes, hormones, DNA; and much more.

CONTENTS: A Plant Germline-Specific Integrator of Sperm Specification and Cell Cycle Progression • Effects of Herbivory on the Reproductive Effort of 4 Prairie Perennials • Identification of Flowering Genes in Strawberry, a Perennial SD Plant • Changes in Tree Reproductive Traits Reduce Functional Diversity in a Fragmented Atlantic Forest Landscape • Genetic Subtraction Profiling Identifies Genes Essential for Arabidopsis Reproduction and Reveals Interaction Between the Female Gametophyte and the Maternal Sporophyte • Arabidopsis WRKY2 Transcription Factor Mediates Seed Germination and Postgermination Arrest of Development by Abscisic Acid • DNA Methylation Causes Predominant Maternal Controls of Plant Embryo Growth • Gibberellin Acts through Jasmonate to Control the Expression of MYB21, MYB24, and MYB57 to Promote Stamen Filament Growth in Arabidopsis • Expressions of ECE-CYC2 Clade Genes Relating to Abortion of Both Dorsal and Ventral Stamens in Opithandra (Gesneriaceae) • A Comparative Analysis of Pollinator Type and Pollen Ornamentation in the Araceae and the Arecaceae, Two Unrelated Families of the Monocots • Life History Traits in Selfing Versus Outcrossing Annuals:Exploring the 'Time-Limitation' Hypothesis for the Fitness Benefit of Self-Pollination • Functional Diversity of Plant–Pollinator Interaction Webs Enhances the Persistence of Plant Communities • How to Be an Attractive Male:Floral Dimorphism and Attractiveness to Pollinators in a Dioecious Plant • Pollen Development in Annona cherimola mill. (Annonaceae):Implications for the Evolution of Aggregated Pollen • more • Index

This new book includes a selection of topics in the field of fisheries science. The impact of climate change on tropical fish, studies on the reproductive and mating habits of specific fish, hibernation of Antarctic fish, the molecular makeup of specific fish, and much more are discussed.

CONTENTS: Impact of Climate Change on the Relict Tropical Fish Fauna of Central Sahara:Threat for the Survival of Adrar Mountains Fishes, Mauritania • Selection of Reference Genes for Expression Studies with Fish Myogenic Cell Cultures • Comparative Chromosome Mapping of Repetitive Sequences. Implications for Genomic Evolution in the Fish, Hoplias malabaricus • Communities of Gastrointestinal Helminths of Fish in Historically Connected Habitats:Habitat Fragmentation Effect in a Carnivorous Catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco from Seven Lakes in Flood Plain of the Yangtze River, China • Theoretical Analysis of Pre-Receptor Image Conditioning in Weakly Electric Fish • Defining Global Neuroendocrine Gene Expression Patterns Associated with Reproductive Seasonality in Fish • Assortative Mating Among Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Populations Is Not Simply Predictable from Male Nuptial Color • Hibernation in an Antarctic Fish:On Ice for Winter • Evolutionary History of the Fish Genus Astyanax Baird & Girard (1854) (Actinopterygii, Characidae) in Mesoamerica Reveals Multiple Morphological Homoplasies • Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Fish Revisited:Prevalence, a Single Sex Ratio Response Pattern, and Possible Effects of Climate Change • Red Fluorescence in Reef Fish:A Novel Signalling Mechanism? • The Molecular Basis of Color Vision in Colorful Fish:Four Long Wave-Sensitive (LWS) Opsins in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Are Defined by Amino Acid Substitutions at Key Functional Sites • Plasticity of Electric Organ Discharge Waveform in the South African Bulldog Fish, Marcusenius pongolensis:Tradeoff Between Male Attractiveness and Predator Avoidance? • A Fish Eye Out of Water:Ten Visual Opsins in the Four-Eyed Fish, Anableps anableps • more • Index

Fisheries management and conservation draws on fisheries science in order to find ways to protect fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible. Modern fisheries management often involves regulating when, where, how, and how much fishermen are allowed to harvest to ensure that there will be fish in the future. This work covers an array of topics on fisheries management and conservation, including chapters on illegal fishing, recovery of endangered fish, management effectiveness of fisheries, harmful alien fish invasions in river systems, and much more.

CONTENTS: Beyond Marine Reserves:Exploring the Approach of Selecting Areas Where Fishing Is Permitted, Rather Than Prohibited • Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing • Fish Communities in Coastal Freshwater Ecosystems:The Role of the Physical and Chemical Setting • Recovery of a U. S. Endangered Fish • Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries • Intense Habitat-Specific Fisheries-Induced Selection at the Molecular Pan I Locus Predicts Imminent Collapse of a Major Cod Fishery • Analysing Ethnobotanical and Fishery-Related Importance of Mangroves of the East-Godavari Delta (Andhra Pradesh, India) for Conservation and Management Purposes • Lack of Cross-Scale Linkages Reduces Robustness of Community-Based Fisheries Management • A Step Towards Seascape Scale Conservation:Using Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) to Map Fishing Activity • Rapid Effects of Marine Reserves via Larval Dispersal • Fishery-Independent Data Reveal Negative Effect of Human Population Density on Caribbean Predatory Fish Communities • Fishers' Knowledge and Seahorse Conservation in Brazil • Fish Invasions in the World's River Systems:When Natural Processes Are Blurred by Human Activities • Integrated Ecosystem Assessment:Lake Ontario Water Management • Index