Microbiology (non-medical)

The 8th International Symposium on Microbial Growth on C1 Compounds was held at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA, 27 August-1 September, 1995.

Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the classical etiological agent of diphtheria and the type strain of the genus Corynebacterium.

This book has been designed to summarize current, essential information for every one of the world's 700+ hard tick species.

Over the past century, the majority of chemical and energy needs of our industrial society has originated from fossilized carbon sources (coal, crude oil, natural gas).

This book describes the role of heat shock proteins in the life cycle of malaria parasites.

Plant innate immunity is a potential surveillance system of plants and is the first line of defense against invading pathogens.

Researchers in the field of ecological genomics aim to determine how a genome or a population of genomes interacts with its environment across ecological and evolutionary timescales.

This book contains a collection of critical reviews on the expression of biologically functional proteins in Leishmania and Trypanosoma, which was written by renowned researchers on this field.

More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth.

This book presents and summarizes the new thoughts, new methods and new achievements that have emerged in the biotechnology of lignocellulose in recent years.

Growth in the pharmaceutical market has slowed down - almost to a standstill.

Microbial infection is increasingly seen as a problem as we begin to run out of antibiotics.

This volume is an indispensable addition to the multidisciplinary coverage of the science of the Mediterranean Sea.

In a time of rapid climatic, industrial and technological changes in molluscan shellfish producing and exporting regions, it is of the utmost importance to keep a keen eye on developing trends.

This book contemplates the structure, dynamics and physics of virus particles: From the moment they come into existence by self-assembly from viral components produced in the infected cell, through their extracellular stage, until they recognise and infect a new host cell and cease to exist by losing their physical integrity to start a new infectious cycle.

Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life?

Many Microorganisms and some macro-organisms can live under extreme conditions.

Biological disease management tactics have emerged as potential alternative to chemical application for containing crop diseases.

Biological management of diseases of crops is influenced by the nature of interactions between the pathogens and other organisms and the plants.

"e;Modern Solid State Fermentation: Theory and Practice"e; covers state-of-the-art studies in the field of solid state fermentation (SSF).

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This book contains an extensive collection of critical reviews, from leading researchers in the field of regulated protein degradation.

This volume details the exploration, collection, characterization, evaluation and conservation of microbes for sustainable utilization in the development of the global as well as national economies, e.

The existence of life at high temperatures is quiet fascinating.

Phytoplankton responses to human impact at different scales provides a state-of-the-art review of changes in the phytoplankton assemblages determined by human alterations of lakes and rivers.

Iron is essential for the growth of most bacteria because it serves as a cofactor for vital enzymes and for the components of the electron transport chain.

Functions of Natural Organic Matter in Changing Environment presents contributions from the 16th Meeting of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS 16) held in Hangzhou, China on September 9-14, 2012.

This book is designed to be a long term career reference.

"e;HPV and Cancer"e; is a concise read that covers all aspects of the Human Papilloma Virus as it relates to human cancers.

This volume, The Science of Algal Fuels (volume 25 of COLE), contains 26 chapters dealing with biofuels contributed by experts from numerous countries and covers several aspects of algal products, one being "e;oilgae from algae,"e; mainly oils and fuels for engines.

Iron plays a key role in biology as essential cofactor of numerous proteins.

Metabolic engineering has been developed over the past 20 years to become an important tool for the rational engineering of industrial microorganisms.

A renaissance of virus research is taking centre stage in biology.

This completely updated fifth edition of Bacterial Fish Pathogens is a comprehensive discussion of the biological aspects of the bacteria which cause disease in farmed and wild fish.

This book summarizes the latest advances in sponge science through a concise selection of studies presented at the VIII World Sponge Conference.

This book is the result of 14 years of collecting Entolomataceae in the native forests of Tasmania, Australia.

Prevention of infectious diseases by vaccination is one of the most significant achievements of modern medicine.

Systems Metabolic Engineering is changing the way microbial cell factories are designed and optimized for industrial production.

The tropical plant family Pandanaceae comprises three genera, Freycinetia, Pandanus and Sararanga.

Bacterial infections cause substantial morbidity and mortality in cancer patients.

This volume includes contributions by the leading experts in the field of yeast aging.

Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties including antimicrobial properties for many centuries.

Cyanobacteria have existed for 3.

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been used as a biopesticide in agriculture, forestry and mosquito control because of its advantages of specific toxicity against target insects, lack of polluting residues and safety to non-target organisms.

Non-thermal (cold) plasmas at atmospheric pressure have recently found many breakthrough applications in biology, medicine, and food security.

The US is currently well ahead of the rest of the world in the development and application of SB and its principles especially as they pertain to basic medical research and development.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins.

Although interactions between nanoparticles and microorganisms in the environment are unavoidable and commonplace, it is still not clear what potential effects they may have.

Microbes and their biosynthetic capabilities have been invaluable in finding solutions for several intractable problems mankind has encountered in maintaining the quality of the environment.