Annual Plant Reviews – Nitorgen Metabolism in Plants in the Post–genomic Era V42 (Annual Plant Reviews)
The field of plant nitrogen metabolism continues to be a compelling focus for basic research activities because there is a strong demand for immediate solutions, particularly in key areas, such as improving plant nitrogen use efficiency, which are crucial to future agricultural sustainability and the future economic success of agriculture. The 13 reviews which comprise this excellent and carefully edited new volume bring together the expertise and enthusiasm of an international team of leading r...
Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology (Soil Biology, #14)
Microbiologists and soil scientists will find this study compelling reading. It focuses on the role of bacterial, fungal and plant secondary metabolites in soil ecosystems. Our understanding of the biological function of secondary metabolites is surprisingly limited, considering our knowledge of their structural diversity and pharmaceutical activity. This book reviews functional aspects of secondary metabolite production, with a focus on interactions among soil organisms.
Enzymes in Action Green Solutions for Chemical Problems (Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 1, #33)
Enzymes in Action is a timely survey of a modern development in organic chemistry. It is clear that bioreagents demand that organic chemists think in a different way. If they do so, they will open up new avenues of exciting, new chemistry that will permit problems to be solved in an elegant way. The first section covers the concepts necessary to understand enzymes in molecular operations. The second section covers heteroatom enzyme chemistry, with considerable attention being given to t...
Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2003)
Calculations for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: A Guide to Mathematics in the Laboratory
4 Water Sources ........................................ 149 Criteria ............................................. 149 Major types .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . Summary ............................................ 152 5 Water Treatment ...................................... 155 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 . . . . . . . . . . . . Materials ............................................ 155 Treat...
The use of biologically derived polymers is emerging as an important component of sustainable economic development. Technical lignins, derivatives from naturally occurring lignin polymers in woody plants, are generated commercially in large quantities -- up to 70 million tons world-wide annually. Besides being burned as fuels, only a small percentage of these lignins are used for various applications because technical lignins present relatively unpredictable structural characteristics and are th...
The study of polymers by electron microscopy (EM) needs special techniques, precautions and preparation methods, including ultramicrotomy. General characteristics of the different techniques of EM, including scanning force microscopy, are given in this hands-on book. The application of these techniques to the study of morphology and properties, particularly micromechanical properties, is described in detail. Examples from all classes of polymers are presented.
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography of Peptides and Proteins
by Colin T. Mant and Robert S. Hodges
Containing articles by internationally renowned scientists, this book covers the use of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) techniques for a range of applications. The authors present practical approaches along with clear principles that are easily accessible to the method developer as well as the scientist. They discuss major HPLC analytical modes including size exclusion, ion-exchange, reverse-phase, hydrophobic interactions, immunoaffinity, and more. Highlights of the second edition...
Our jobs and families; the deluge of e-mails, texts, and calls; the constant pinch on our time and money; the screaming match of politics and the threat of terrorism and war--there is no doubt about it, we are completely stressed out. Most of the time, we just shrug it off, but as neuropsychiatrists Gregory L. Fricchione, Ana Ivkovic, and Albert Yeung gently remind us in this book: stress can be really, really bad for our health. In fact, persistent stress is directly linked to chronic ailments...
Rewritten and extended, this new edition reflects the progress that has been made during the last few years in that particular field. The book informs about the structures, metabolisms, modes of action and uses of pesticides in crop protection. The pesticides treated include chemicals against insects, mollusks, threadworms, fungi and weeds.
Grape Seed Oil
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Human health as well as aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are threatened from increa sing levels of environmental radiation of various sources, many of them of anthropoge nic causality: large areas of the former Soviet Union suffer from radioactive pollution, in particular after the Chemobyl accident; the increase in the incidence of UVB radiati on at the Earth's surface as a result of a progressive depletion of stratospheric ozone is a global problem that requires international concerted ac...
Studien über die proteolytischen Enzyme der Hefe und ihre Beziehung zu der Autolyse
by Karl Gustav Dernby
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Fisheries genetics researchers will find invaluable the thirty-eight peer-reviewed contributions in this book, presented at the 20th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium "Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates," held in May 2002 in Juneau, Alaska. Looming over concerns of lost fisheries stocks and persistent erosion of genetic variability are predictions of global warming, which may further tax genetic resources. One consequence is an increased reliance on genetic applications to many aspe...
Computational Approaches to Protein Function Prediction (Wiley Series in Bioinformatics)
by Gaurav Pandey, Vipin Kumar, Michael Steinbach, and Chad L. Meyers
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of automated protein function prediction. It covers many techniques for solving this problem by computational means and discusses the most important principles underlying these techniques. By clearly describing a wide variety of automated techniques for protein function prediction and summarizing the main concepts behind these techniques, this book greatly reduces the time and effort required to understand the problem of protein function p...
Amyloid, Prions, and Other Protein Aggregates, Part B (Methods in Enzymology)
by Indu Kheterpal
Biochemistry of Sulfur (Biochemistry of the Elements, #6)
by Ryan J Huxtable
There can be few elements with a biochemistry as coherent as that of sulfur. This important element is crucial to myriad aspects of metabo lism, catalysis, and structure. The plurality of functions in which sulfur is involved derives squarely from the numerous oxidation states in which it may exist, some having great stability, some being capable of ready redox interconversions, and yet others having great instability. As a result, the flux of sulfur from the geosphere through the various kingd...
Sugar and Sugar Derivatives: Changing Consumer Preferences
Sugarcane enjoys a prominent position among agro-industrial crops and is commercially grown in 115 tropical and subtropical countries around the world. However, fluctuations in sugar prices have forced the sugarcane industry worldwide to broaden its revenue base by moving from single-commodity manufacturing to a range of value-added products. Utilizing the by-products in an innovative manner to create value-added products is the new course of action for sugar-producing countries. For many y...
Antifreeze Proteins Volume 2
This second volume, written in four parts, offers the reader a thorough review on molecular, structural and applied aspects of antifreeze proteins. The first part treats the structure-function relationship and the physicochemical properties of antifreeze proteins; the second part provides insight into molecular mechanisms affected by antifreeze proteins; the third part presents some of the potential applications in various professional sectors and in the last part the book content is summarized...
Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution