Genetics (non-medical)

This book focuses on early germination, one of maize germplasm most important strategies for adapting to drought-induced stress.

This book examines how post-transcriptional mechanisms control endocrine function.

This volume explores the epigenetic alterations and their association with various human cancers.

Epigenetic modification of cellular genomes is a fascinating means of regulating tissue- and cell type-specific gene expression in all developmental stages of the life of an organism.

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Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi integrates work done by pre-eminent scientists, academics, and researchers dedicated to the study of mycorrhizas in laboratories around the world.

Entomology as a science of inter-depended branches like molecular entomology, insect biotechnology, has made rapid progress.

Thanks to the application of new technologies such as whole-genome sequencing,  analysis of transcriptome and proteome of insect pest to agriculture, great progress has been made in understanding the life style, reproduction, evolution and nuisance to crops caused by insect pests such as aphids, planthoppers, and whiteflies.

This book provides an overview of the latest advancements in the field of alien introgression in wheat.

This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques.

Triticale crop species has received substantial research support since the mid-20th century making it a commercial success in many countries, in diverse value propositions.

This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems.

The first part of the book presents the evolution of plants starting from photosynthetic cells to topics like Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, including the evolution of the breeding system.

The sequencing of genomes has been completed for an increasing number of crop species, and researchers have now succeeded in isolating and characterising many important QTLs/genes.

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This book presents 20 selected contributions to the 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2014 in Marseille.

Novel topics compiled in this one-of-a-kind volume provide tantalizing hints for clinical application through future translational research.

Every three years, the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) arranges a Meeting to bring together all of the major International research groups investigating the general topic of oxygen sensing in health and disease, with a prime focus upon systemic level hypoxia and carotid body function.

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This book provides a timely review of the role of histone modifications in epigenetic control of gene expression.

Provides a global view of the recent advances in the biological sciences and the adaption of the pathogen to the host plants revealed using NGS.

This is the fourth updated and revised edition of a well-received book that emphasises on fungal diversity, plant productivity and sustainability.

This brief examines a deterministic, ODE-based model for gene regulatory networks (GRN) that incorporates nonlinearities and time-delayed feedback.

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Through this book, researchers and students will learn to use R for analysis of large-scale genomic data and how to create routines to automate analytical steps.

The book serves as a comprehensive resource for scientists and clinicians studying the role of non-coding RNAs in inflammation (viral infections, wound inflammation), human inflammatory diseases (i.

Aimed at research scientists and biotechnologists, this book is an essential reading for those working with extremophiles and their potential biotechnological application.

After sequencing the human genome a decade ago, researchers have continued their projects, but now to try to better understand how, and when, genes are expressed in health and disease.

G proteins are the key regulators for a wide range of cellular processes in animals and plants.

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This book highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing.

Fungi are an economic very important class of microbes.

Several different transformation techniques have been developed over the years and readily shown to be decisive methods in fungal biotechnology.

The purpose of this book is to assess the potential effects of biotechnological approaches particularly genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment.

This proceeding covers all the collected research data and presentations from the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf.

Calcium plays pivotal role in regulating the physiological as well as developmental processes in plants.

This SpringerBrief gives the latest research on the role of miRNAs in breast cancer metastasis.

Over the past decades, chromatin remodelling has emerged as an important regulator of gene expression and plant defense.

This book includes the most essential contributions presented at the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2013.

The unique responses of plants to combined stresses have been observed at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels.

The work described in this book is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research in systems biology.

The book contains aspects of production, genetics and breeding of Capsicum species with emphasis on fruit quality, yield and its nutritional characteristics among with some specific chapters focusing on breeding and physiological features of potted ornamental Chili and responses to abiotic stress and postharvest of fruits.

New concepts arise in science when apparently unrelated fields of knowledge are put together in a coherent way.

The earth's biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability.

This book presents an overview of the RNA networks controlling gene expression in fungi highlighting the remaining questions and future challenges in this area.

Aberrant expression and function of microRNAs (miRNAs) in cancer have added a new layer of complexity to the understanding of development and progression of the disease state.

Deals with the historical perspectives and the current status of doubled haploid production along with its practical implications in basic and applied research.

Waldinsekten sind ökologisch und ökonomisch von vielfältiger Bedeutung: Sie bestäuben Pflanzen, bauen tote pflanzliche und tierische Substanz ab, sind Nahrung für Wirbeltiere, regulieren Schadorganismen und gestalten ganze Lebensräume.

"Die Heuschrecken der Schweiz" ist ein Exkursionsführer und Nachschlagewerk, in dem erstmals alle Heuschreckenarten der Schweiz umfassend dargestellt werden.

Wegen der schweren Erreichbarkeit von Baumkronen ist bis heute nur wenig über arborikole Ameisen bekannt.