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This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology in plant sciences, particularly its potential to improve food and agricultural systems, through innovative, eco-friendly approaches, and as a result to increase plant productivity. Topics include various aspects of...
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Springer
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2016-10-13
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Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of mimicry research has been on defence in animals, but there is now also a highly-developed and rapidly-growing body of research on floral mimicry in plants. This has coincided...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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This essential
volume comprehensively discusses redox-active therapeutics, focusing
particularly on their molecular design, mechanistic, pharmacological and
medicinal aspects. The first section of the book describes the basic
aspects of the chemistry and biology...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book explores the major cytokines, such as IL-1 and IFN-?, with respect to the regulation of their gene expression and protein production in specific immune cell types. It discusses both healthy physiological settings and in pathological situations in which the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-12
Collection :
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease control (by vaccination, immunostimulation, probiotics, prebiotics, plant products, and...
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Springer
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2016-10-12
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This book provides two thousand multiple choice questions on human anatomy and physiology, separated into 40 categories. The answer to each question is accompanied by an explanation. Each category has an introduction to set the scene for the questions to come. However...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-11
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Dieser Band nimmt sie mit auf eine spannende Reise in Bildern und Texten. Spektakuläre, großformatige Fotos auf Doppelseiten mit einem Erklärungstext machen die Leser neugierig auf das, was die Evolution im Bereich des Fliegens hervorgebracht hat: von der pflanzlichen...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-10
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This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of bamboos.Bamboo is a versatile group of plants, capable of providing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-10
Collection :
Tropical Forestry
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This brief introduces the structural and functional characterization of this important group of proteins. The content of each chapter is aimed at the non-specialist so that key concepts, methodologies and applications can be presented in a "snapshot" style volume....
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-08
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This book presents basic concepts, methodologies and applications of biotechnology for the conservation and propagation of aromatic, medicinal and other economic plants. It caters to the needs and challenges of researchers in plant biology, biotechnology, the medical...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-08
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This book describes essential principles of and approaches to monitoring and modeling algal blooms. Freshwater algal blooms have become a growing concern worldwide. They are caused by a high level of cyanobacteria, particularly Microcystis spp. and Cylindrospermopsis...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-08
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Dieses essential widmet sich der Umweltgeschichte als Darstellung des Verhältnisses von Menschen zu ihrer Umwelt in historischer Perspektive. Die Autoren behandeln auf der Basis exemplarisch ausgewählter Abbildungen relevante Fragen und Problemfelder der...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2016-10-07
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Das Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen umfasst die Mehrzahl der in den deutschsprachigen Gebieten Europas vorkommenden wirbellosen Tiere, für die bereits Trivialnamen existieren. Darüber hinaus ist eine Vielzahl wichtiger globaler Arten aufgeführt. Die Namen der hier...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Frank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today’s most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic, the book provides a brief history of species concepts from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more recent oceanic island influences....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This book explores key applications of phage biotechnology and reviews recent advances in phage display technologies. The applications covered were selected on the basis of their significance and representativeness in the field.
The small size and enormous...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-04
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The present book intends to provide an update on immunosenescence and how deficiencies in the immune system contribute to a higher susceptibility to infections, decline in organ function, reduced vaccination responses, age-related disease and the ageing process itself,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-03
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The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. The fertile soils of river deltas provided early human civilizations with a means of farming crops and obtaining seafood from the highly productive marshes and shallow...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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This book is oriented towards post-graduates and researchers with interest in proteomics and its applications in clinical biomarker discovery pipeline. Biomarker discovery has long been the research focus of many life scientists globally. However, the pipeline starting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-30
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