Biochemistry

This book provides state-of-the-art reviews, current research on and the prospects of lignin production, biological, thermal and chemical conversion methods, and lignin technoeconomics.

This book serves to highlight the seamless integration of the sciences leading to sustainable technologies.

This book summarizes the development of highly tolerant cultivars via plant breeding, genomics, and proteomic approaches.

Bananas and plantains are among the most important food and cash crops in the world.

This book focuses on the evolution of plant viruses, their molecular classification, epidemics and management, covering topics relating to evolutionary mechanisms, viral ecology and emergence, appropriate analysis methods, and the role of evolution in taxonomy.

Since ancient times, plants have been used as a prime natural source of alternative medicines and have played an important role in our lives.

Global yields of legumes have been relatively stagnant for the last five decades, despite the adoption of conventional and molecular breeding approaches.

Bioreactor Technology in Food Processing brings peculiarities, specificities, and updates on bioreactors and bioprocesses related to food and beverage production.

Metabolitos secundarios, actividad biologica y etnobotanica de plantas de Santa Marta es una obra que reune aspectos relacionados con la quimica de productos naturales vegetales de especies de la ciudad de Santa Marta (Magdalena).

Desde hace unas décadas existen algunas señales que amenazan el actual modelo económico basado en la petroquímica.

Actualmente la educación superior, dentro del contexto de la globalización, se está orientando hacia el sistema de créditos en el que el trabajo autónomo e independiente del alumno es un aspecto fundamental para la formación académica y profesional.

Estos apuntes de clase recogen la experiencia de muchos anos de catedra y de la busqueda de modelos de aprendizaje para una ciencia tan compleja como la bioquimica.

This volume in the series is devoted to Africa, a continent that possesses a vast treasure of medicinal plants and has produced some exclusive materials for the world market.

This book describes the latest molecular insights needed to understand the chemical and biological (CB) agents and their associated biotechnologies.

This book discusses the latest findings on the physiological and pathological functions of transient receptor potential canonical/classical (TRPC) proteins in the brain.

Taurine 10 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XX International Taurine Meeting held in Seoul, Korea in May 2016.

This book provides a state-of-the-art report on our current understanding of aquaporins and the future direction of the field.

This book is about protein structural bioinformatics and how it can help understand and predict protein function.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of enzyme engineering, from fundamental principles through to the state-of-the-art in research and industrial applications.

The role of vitamin A in living organisms has been known throughout human history.

This book presents the scientific evidence for the role of vitamin C in health and disease and offers new guidance on vitamin C intake in humans.

This proceedings volume results from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment (BRITE)'.

The volume focuses on the genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics of a single cell, especially lymphocytes and on understanding the molecular mechanisms of systems immunology.

This interdisciplinary volume collates research work on kinesins and cancer.

The present work offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of crystallographic, analytical, and computational methods used in modern drug design and development.

This book provides a clearly structured introduction to hydrogen biology and medicine.

Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources.

Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources.

Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject.

This book systematically summarizes the ideas and technologies used in urine proteome analysis.

This book will focus on the differentiation and regulation of subsets of CD4+ T cells.

This book focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the signal transduction pathway of ethylene, its interaction with other hormones and its roles in biological processes.

This book provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the molecular and cell biology of abscisic acid (ABA) metabolism, transport and signal transduction, covering our current understanding of ABA as well as research trends.

The functional characterization of a key enzyme in the phosphatidylinositol (PI) signaling pathway in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the focus of the research summarised in this thesis.

The mechanisms and physiological functions of urea transporters across biological membranes are subjects of long-standing interests.

This book examines information processing performed by bio-systems at all scales: from genomes, cells and proteins to cognitive and even social systems.

This volume covers both the basic concepts and theory of bio-macromolecules under pressure and the various frontiers in high-pressure bioscience and biotechnology.

For many years, the authors have investigated the adaptive role of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in different animals, including the representatives of homothermic and poikilothermic organisms that inhabit regions with contrasting thermal conditions.

The bioactive compounds of plants have world-wide applications in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and food industry with a huge market.

The book is intended to be a resource for students as well as scientists in education and for the general public to learn about proteomics and genomics.

This book delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment.

This book, for the first time, comprehensively assembles and analyzes a large body of information on the role of the fundamental mechanism of the protein biosynthesis pathway, translation, in cancer biology.

Harnessing the sun's energy via photosynthesis is at the core of sustainable production of food, fuel, and materials by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria.

Nature endows us with a treasure chest of Green Gold full of amazing 'redox-active' substances which interfere with numerous biological processes in our own body, in animals, bacteria, fungi and plants.

This volume is a continuation of Volume 1 following the previously published Editorial.

The fascinating machinery that life uses to harness energy is the focus of this volume of the Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration series.

This book will focus on new molecular interactions and novel activities and the associated diseases that have been recently discovered from the studies of eukaryotic and mammalian aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

This textbook aims to describe the fascinating area of eukaryotic gene regulation for graduate students in all areas of the biomedical sciences.

The book describes in detail the authors' current understanding of the models that incorporate the concepts andtechniques of synthetic chemistry, chemical engineering, synthetic biology andbioengineering.

This book provides state-of-the-art reviews, current research and prospects of producing hydrogen using bio, thermal and electrochemical methods and covers hydrogen separation, storage and applications.