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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13 Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamental intermediary metabolic pathways. Over the last...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Annual Plant Reviews
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New research tools have revealed many surprising aspects of the dynamic nature of lipids and their participation in processes such as recognition, intra- and inter-cellular signalling, deterrence and defence against pathogens, membrane trafficking and protein function....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Biological Sciences Series
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This is the first volume to provide comprehensive coverage of the biology of water use efficiency at molecular, cellular, whole plant and community levels. While several works have included the phenomenon of water use efficiency, and others have concentrated on an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Biological Sciences Series
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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 12 A fundamental feature of developmental biology is that of the establishment of polarity. It can be described at different levels - polarity of the organism, polarity in tissue patterning and organ development, and polarity of the cell....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 14 It is difficult to over-state the importance of plant pigments in biology. Chlorophylls are arguably the most important organic compounds on earth, as they are required for photosynthesis. Carotenoids are also necessary for the survival...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 16 Intercellular communication in plants plays a vital role in the co-ordination of processes leading to the formation of a functional organism. The signalling systems must function at a local level to co-ordinate events of cellular...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-12
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Voor veel mensen, vooral ouderen, is dement worden een schrikbeeld. Je geheugen verliezen, op den duur je partner en kinderen niet meer herkennen, opgenomen worden in een verpleeghuis; je moet er niet aan denken. Leven met dementie is geschreven voor iedereen die zich...
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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2009-02-12
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Beeinflusst unser Verhalten die Gesundheit? Liegt unser Schicksal in den Genen? Wie funktioniert der Lotus-Effekt? Antworten auf diese Fragen finden Sie in diesem reich bebilderten Buch. In 15 spannenden Beiträgen erzählen Biologen Wissenswertes aus den verschiedenen...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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This guidebook is one of the first to give a comprehensive treatment of the basics, aims and methods of biological soil decontamination. It first presents the characteristics of contaminated soils and then moves on to the basics of the microbial degradation of toxic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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Begon, Townsend, and Harper's Ecology has long been regarded as the definitive textbook on all aspects of ecology. This new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, from the first principles of ecology to the current state of the ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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The first comprehensive and most recent overview of the topic, this ready reference and handbook reviews current knowledge of TAAs, their subclasses, and pinpoints their application areas in medicine. In addition, it emphasizes target identification procedures, the need...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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The relevance of genetic analysis and the need of its automation have rapidly increased during the last years not only in molecular biology and medicine but particularly in fields outside these 'classical' areas of application. In forensic medicine and criminology,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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Lake Baikal is the oldest, deepest and most voluminous lake on Earth, comprising one fifth of the World’s unfrozen fresh water. It hosts the highest number of endemic animals recorded in any freshwater lake. Until recently it remained enigmatic why such a high diversity...
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Springer
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2009-02-07
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Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
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Rapid Infectious Diseases is the fourth book to appear in theRapid series. Each book is designed for short revision covering key facts in a simple and memorable fashion, using well-thought out mnemonics to aid recall This new text provides students in the run-up to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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Rapid
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Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction to all areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiological control of behavior to the learning, development, and function of behavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is also covered...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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A ‘textbook’ plant typically comprises about 85% water and 13.5% carbohydrates. The remaining fraction contains at least 14 mineral elements, without which plants would be unable to complete their life cycles. Understanding plant nutrition and applying this knowledge...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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Biological Sciences Series
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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 17 Conventionally, architecture relates to buildings, embracing both art and science, and specifying both form and function. In scope, this closely matches the study of plant architecture. From an artistic perspective, we might marvel at the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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Annual Plant Reviews
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The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works.The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return...
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Abacus
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2009-02-05
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Principles of Human Evolution presents an in-depth introduction to paleoanthropology and the study of human evolution. Focusing on the fundamentals of evolutionary theory and how these apply to ecological, molecular genetic, paleontological and archeological approaches...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-05
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Megaplasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements in the size range of 100 kb and larger. They are found in physiologically and phylogenetically diverse groups of bacteria and archaea. By definition, megaplasmids are not essential for the viability of their hosts under...
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Springer
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2009-01-29
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Microbiology Monographs
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