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    • Wheat Wild Relatives

      • 1st Edition
      • March 17, 2025
      • Mohd. Kamran Khan + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern developments in the utilization of Wild Wheat Relatives (WWR) and related neglected species for wheat crop improvement, specifically focusing on environmental constraints. The book comprehensively discusses different wheat wild relatives, including major genus Triticum and Aegilops and their utilization in mitigating different environmental constraints using agronomic, physiological, and molecular approaches. Chapters provide insights into the advancement in the deployment of wheat genetic resources, including wild relatives and neglected species for crop improvement towards environmental issues.Wheat is a major staple food crop that has largely been focused for fulfilling the food requirements of world population during the Green revolution. Since then, it has come to cover more agricultural land than any other commercial crop. Continuously changing climatic conditions have drastically affected wheat production, with yields largely limited by environmental constraints. Theses production losses caused by crop vulnerability to climate change may be resolved by using wheat wild relatives that are closely related to cultivated genotypes and known for their beneficial traits.

    • Primer Design

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 57
      • June 10, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Primer Design, Volume 57 in the Methods in Microbiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Methods on discriminating between bacterial strains, Primers to PCR and qPCR techniques, and more.

    • Translational Gastroenterology

      • 1st Edition
      • April 18, 2025
      • Adam E.M. Eltorai + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Translational Gastroenterology covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. Readers will learn important concepts, including case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trials, and reliability study. Medical researchers will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in gastroenterology, and know what is needed in collaboration. Further, this title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts. The practical, straightforward approach helps the aspiring investigator navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation.The book provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in gastroenterology, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every medical researcher or gastroenterologist who has ever had a good clinical idea but not the knowledge of how to test it.

    • Starchy Crops Waste Valorization

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Marney Pascoli Cereda + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Starchy Crops Waste Valorization: Recovery and Treatment, the fifth volume in the Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin series, provides information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas with South American origin. The book presents collecting information about products that are generally considered as waste and can therefore cause serious pollution problems in starch-processing industries. Edited by experts with a solid background in starch extraction research, the books in this series are aimed at anyone involved in research and development, new technology processes, quality control, and legislation. The Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin book series brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas that have South American origin. As the final volume in the series, Starchy Crops Waste Valorization: Recovery and Treatment enables stakeholders to valorize waste by transforming it into by-products that can reach the market and reduce processing costs. It also explains how to reduce or eliminate problems of environmental contamination. Residues covered are of two types: crop residues and industrial residues.

    • Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables

      • 1st Edition
      • March 20, 2025
      • Milan Kumar Lal + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables provides comprehensive information on the morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses of various underground vegetable crops to abiotic stress and the strategies for managing these crops under these conditions.Climate changes pose major challenges to the productivity and yield of crops, particularly horticultural crops that bear their edible parts underground. Underground vegetable crops are highly nutritious, non-cereal plant species grown in various agro-ecological zones and play a significant role in feeding both people and animals around the world as well a providing industrial products. To address the range of challenges created by climate changes, it is crucial to understand the physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of crops to abiotic stress and the potential mechanisms of resistance and mitigation.Presented in two parts, 'Stress Responses' and 'Stress Mitigation', Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables offers a detailed exploration of reactions of different underground vegetable crops to abiotic stress, along with effective management strategies for cultivating these crops. This book is an essential resource for researchers, students, crop growers, and all stakeholders in the field of crop sciences who are interested in improving the yield and productivity of these vital crops.

    • Cholinergic Involvement in Neurodegenerative Diseases

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 211
      • May 9, 2025
      • A. Claudio Cuello
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cholinergic Involvement in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Volume 211 reviews cholinergic function in the brain as it relates to Neurodegenerative disorders. Coverage includes Alzheimer’s, dementia, Down Syndrome, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, and more. In addition, the anatomy of the cholinergic system is described as well as the distribution and function of receptors.

    • Cheese

      • 5th Edition
      • June 20, 2025
      • Paul L.H. McSweeney + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cheese: Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the chemical, biochemical, microbiological, and physico-chemical aspects of cheese, taking the reader from the rennet and acid coagulation of milk to the role of cheese and related foods in addressing public health issues. This updated revision, the most comprehensive work on the science of cheese, addresses the basic definition of cheese, along with the diverse factors that affect its quality. Understanding these fermented milk-based food products is vital to a global audience.Divided in two volumes, this book contains by far the most comprehensive coverage of the scientific aspects of this important dairy product, covering all aspects of cheese manufacture and ripening from the standpoint of basic science (vol 1). In addition, coverage is included of all major families of cheese (vol 2).

    • Recent Advances in Hemodynamics and Blood Mimetics

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2025
      • João Mário Rodrigues Miranda + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Recent Advances in Hemodynamics and Blood Mimetics is a comprehensive compilation of recent developments in biofluid mechanics and biomimetics, covering topics such as numerical modeling, biomedical applications of microfluidics, biomimetic flows, biomedicine applications, and organ-on-chip technology. The book explores blood hemodynamics at different scales, including application to diseases, the relationship between blood biomechanics and rheology, the mimetization of blood properties at arterial and capillary level, including the study of blood mechanical and flow properties, flow and surface properties of blood cells, and mimetization of these same properties in fluid/particle systems.These concepts are applied to the development of organ-on-chip to improve the replication of biological processes in the human body. The book organizes recent knowledge on hemodynamics and blood mimetics and is representative of the different lines of research in the field, showing an integrated view of blood biomechanics encompassing all scales to create a valuable resource where different research lines can be found and their principles understood.

    • Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) – Virus research at the highest level of biosafety and biosecurity

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 122
      • July 23, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Virus Research, Volume 122 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including HERVs in cancer stem cells, Nomenclature for vertical, Modelling of vertically transmitted viruses, Vertical transmission of tomato viruses, and more.

    • Integrated Pathy

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2025
      • Acharya Balkrishna
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Integrated Pathy: Re-envisioning Healthcare and Wellness Using India as a Case Study brings together the best holistic treatments tailored to improve patient care. The book focuses on health and healing rather than disease and treatment. Instead of following the fragmented approach of modern and contemporary line, or more specifically, the allopathic regime of treatments, the book views patients as a complete entity inclusive of minds, spirits, and bodies, and includes these dimensions in diagnosis and treatment to provide a custom healing regime. Attention is paid to inherent lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, quality of rest, sleep, and the nature of relationships.Reader... will find a fresh perspective on revitalizing traditional indigenous practices and the reliability and efficacy of so-called traditional and alternative therapies, both of which will undoubtedly contribute to the advancement of the ecosystem of research in this field.

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