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Springer
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2009-02-27
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Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in populations and how these risks vary in relation to intensity and duration of exposure and other factors like genetic susceptibility. As such, it is the basic science upon which...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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Endophytic fungi are common and diverse in plants. Yet the nature of their interactions with host plants, and how these interactions cascade upward to communities and ecosystems, is largely unknown. In the first book of its kind, Gregory P. Cheplick and Stanley H. Faeth...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-02-23
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Plant Molecular Breeding Plant Molecular Breeding Edited by H. John Newbury The last few years have seen an explosion of new information and resources in the areas of plant molecular genetics and genomics. As a result of developments such as high throughput...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-18
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Biological Sciences Series
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Wood is the most versatile raw material available to man. It is burned as fuel, shaped into utensils, used as a structural engineering material, converted into fibres for paper production, and put to newer uses as a source of industrial chemicals. Its quality results...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-18
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Biological Sciences Series
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The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught.The text places human evolution in the context of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-18
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Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 8 In the last few years, the new analytical tools associated with molecular biology, biochemistry, spectroscopy, microscopy, immunology, genomics and proteomics have been employed to investigate plant cell wall structure and function,...
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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 10 The cytoskeleton is a dynamic filamentous structure composed of at least actin and microtubule networks. Actin and microtubules are no different structurally from their animal and fungal counterparts. However, the strategies of 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 11 Plant diseases are destructive and threaten virtually any crop grown on a commercial scale. They are kept in check by plant breeding strategies that have introgressed disease resistance genes into many important crops, and by the...
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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 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
Parution :
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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Marine systems vary in their sensitivities to perturbation. Perturbation may be insidious – such as increasing eutrophication of coastal areas – or it may be dramatic – such as a response to an oil spillage or some other accident. Climate change may occur incrementally...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-12
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Biological Sciences Series
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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...
Editeur :
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
Parution :
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 ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
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