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  • Phytoremediation

    Biotechnological Strategies for Promoting Invigorating Environs
    • 1st Edition
    • Rouf Ahmad Bhat + 3 more
    • English
    Phytoremediation: Biotechnological Strategies for Promoting Invigorating Environs focuses on phytoremediation’s history, present and future potential, discussing mechanisms of remediation, different types of pollutant and polluted environs, cell signaling, biotechnology, and molecular biology, including site-directed DNA and the omics related to plant sciences. Sections focus on phytoremediation as an economically feasible and environmentally safe strategy, including its mechanisms from macroscopic to microscopic level, strategies of assisted phytoremediation, the role of omics on innovations on the field, the development of genetically modified plants (GMPs) to deal with pollutants, the future prospects of targeted genetic engineering in phytoremediation and remediation advantages and disadvantages. Other sections in the book explore the phytoremediation of specific environs (water and soil) and specific contaminants that are of major worldwide concern.

  • Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in Biotechnology

    • 1st Edition
    • Prashant Kumar Singh + 2 more
    • English
    Environmental change is affecting the world's agricultural productivity. This is coupled with an increase in population: according to the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs, the global population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. Therefore, the current situation requires that we develop climate-smart technologies to improve crop productivity to sustain the ever-rising global population. Current-day farmers are introducing a considerable amount of agrochemicals to enhance crop productivity. Indiscriminate agrochemical application has altered not only the soil's physic-chemical and biological properties but also affected human health through food chain contamination. Cyanobacteria, under these changing environmental conditions, may help to resolve the problem significantly without changing the natural soil properties. In spite of their well-known stress tolerance potential, most of the cyanobacterial stress management and signaling pathways are yet to be fully characterized. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore cyanobacterial metabolism under stress as well as their regulatory pathways to exploit them for sustainable agriculture. In recent decades, the application of cyanobacteria has attracted scientists because of uniqueness, better adaptability, and synthetic products. Diverse cyanobacterial communities with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, together with their photosynthetic properties, have demonstrated their application under field conditions. Several cyanobacterial species have thus been exploited to enhance soil fertility, mitigate biotic and abiotic stress, and contamination management. Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in Biotechnology has been designed to discuss different aspects of cyanobacterial physiology with the aim of helping to provide a better understanding of advanced cyanobacterial molecular biology and their metabolism to uncover the potential of cyanobacteria in the tailoring of stress smart crops for sustainable agriculture. Chapters include valuable information about the role of cyanobacteria in the evolution of life, cyanobacterial photosynthesis, stress-tolerant cyanobacterium, biological nitrogen fixation, circadian rhythms, genetics and molecular biology of abiotic stress responses.

  • Chemometrics in Spectroscopy

    Revised Second Edition
    • 2nd Edition
    • Howard Mark + 1 more
    • English
    Chemometrics in Spectroscopy, Revised Second Edition provides the reader with the methodology crucial to apply chemometrics to real world data. The book allows scientists using spectroscopic instruments to find explanations and solutions to their problems when they are confronted with unexpected and unexplained results. Unlike other books on these topics, it explains the root causes of the phenomena that lead to these results. While books on NIR spectroscopy sometimes cover basic chemometrics, they do not mention many of the advanced topics this book discusses. This revised second edition has been expanded with 50% more content on advances in the field that have occurred in the last 10 years, including calibration transfer, units of measure in spectroscopy, principal components, clinical data reporting, classical least squares, regression models, spectral transfer, and more.

  • Plant Perspectives to Global Climate Changes

    Developing Climate-Resilient Plants
    • 1st Edition
    • Tariq Aftab + 1 more
    • English
    Plant Perspectives to Global Climate Changes: Developing Climate-Resilient Plants reviews and integrates currently available information on the impact of the environment on functional and adaptive features of plants from the molecular, biochemical and physiological perspectives to the whole plant level. The book also provides a direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of crops resilient to climatic alterations. This book will be beneficial to academics and researchers working on stress physiology, stress proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering, and other fields of plant physiology. Advancing ecophysiological understanding and approaches to enhance plant responses to new environmental conditions is critical to developing meaningful high-throughput phenotyping tools and maintaining humankind’s supply of goods and services as global climate change intensifies.

  • Current research on naturally transmitted Plasmodium knowlesi

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 113
    • Russell Stothard + 1 more
    • English
    Plasmodium Knowlesi, Volume 113 in the Advances in Parasitology series, includes medical studies of parasites of major influence, along with reviews of more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy and life history. Chapters in this update include Taking the strain out of onchocerciasis: a reanalysis of blindness and transmission data does not support the existence of a savanna blinding strain of onchocerciasis in West Africa, Enterocytozoon bieneusi of animals, Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticerco... Genomic analysis reveals predominant clonality and progressive evolution at all evolutionary scales in eukaryotic pathogens, HTLV-I and Strongyloides: the worm lurking beneath, and more.

  • Wound Healing, Fibrosis, and the Myofibroblast

    A Historical and Biological Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • Giulio Gabbiani + 2 more
    • English
    Wound Healing, and the Myofibroblast: A Historical and Biological Perspective is the fruit of an interdisciplinary and international collaboration involving a historian of medicine (Dr. Zampieri), a physician (Dr. Coen), and a researcher (Prof. Gabbiani, world-renowned for his discovery of the myofibroblast). This book aims to draw a concise yet complete description of the conceptual evolution of wound healing, fibrosis and fibrosis-related pathologies from antiquity to present time, as well as commenting on the role of the myofibroblast and the key cell type essential for tissue repair and fibrosis (from its identification in 1971 throughout its 50-years-old history).By viewing this complex and century-long history from different perspectives, the book's authors aim to draw an exhaustive overview, with the hope of inspiring new and fruitful basic and clinical research.

  • Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • Cristian Falup-Pecurariu + 1 more
    • English
    Autonomic dysfunction is one of the most prevalent non-motor symptoms that occurs in Parkinson’s disease. Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease provides up to date information on this important topic, which affects quality of life of these patients. This include a large number of domains: orthostatic hypotension, excessive sweating, dry eyes, constipation, weight loss, increased sensitivity to heat and cold, sexual dysfunction.

  • New Electron Correlation Methods and their Applications, and Use of Atomic Orbitals with Exponential Asymptotes

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 83
    • English
    Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field one that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It features detailed reviews written by leading international researchers. In this volume the readers are presented with an exciting combination of themes.

  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities

    An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions
    • 11th Edition
    • Donald DePamphilis
    • English
    Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Eleventh Edition presents the most current and comprehensive M&A information available. Organized according to the context in which topics normally occur in the M&A process, the book covers M&A environments, M&A processes, M&A valuation and modeling, deal structuring and financing strategies, and alternative business and restructuring strategies. Covering industries worldwide, this new edition illustrates the most germane strategies and tactics in today's marketplace. It includes substantially more ancillary materials than previous editions, including an extensive test bank, chapter summaries, and instructor and student PowerPoint slides. More than 100 new references to relevant academic research published since 2018 make the 11th edition a balanced, comprehensive guide to the complex and dynamically changing world of M&A.

  • Advances in Marine Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 89
    • Jean-Francois Hamel
    • English
    Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 89 updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Chapters in this new release include Bio-concretions of submarine caves and/or on resting stages from plankton and the Resurrection Ecology, Shallow subtidal rocky reefs of the Mediterranean, From an economic crisis to a pandemic crisis: The need for accurate marine monitoring data to take informed management decisions, Backcasting vs. forecasting, about the paradox of Jevons, sustainability, the ecological transition, and the translation of scientific knowledge into policy, Shark biology and conservation, and more.

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