Microbiology (non-medical)

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This Brief aims at providing a general understanding of the rationale - scientific as well as political - behind EU policy and related risk management decisions in the area on non-animal food imports.

This monograph provides an overview of beneficial plant-bacterial interactions in a straightforward and easy-to-understand format, and includes a wealth of unique illustrations elaborating every major point.

Arthropod borne diseases cause enormous morbidity and mortality in most countries, mostly in those situated in tropical areas, but also in temperate regions.

This book offers a clear description of all the balsamic vinegars and/or similar products produced in the world, their differences in composition, quality and use.

This volume examines all facets of the complex biology of Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies, which play an essential role in the pathophysiology of allergic diseases and immunity to parasites.

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

This book describes the various applications of microorganisms in improving plant growth, health and the efficiency of phytochemical production.

The present book discusses in detail the nature and bioactive properties of lichen secondary metabolites.

A discussion of the chemical compounds produced by organisms living under extreme conditions that may have potential as drugs or leads to novel drugs for human use.

Extremophiles are known to thrive under harsh environmental conditions.

The book presents current affairs of Sporotrichosis as emergent disease with emphasis on the potential factors associated with genetic polymorphisms in Sporothrix complex.

The book describes the products produced by carboxydotrophic bacteria and their biotechnological applications.

This book reviews the mechanisms, patterns, and processes that regulate prokaryotic diversity through different habitats in the context of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses, principles, and theories.

This two-volume work covers the molecular and cell biology, genetics and evolution of influenza viruses, the pathogenesis of infection, resultant host innate and adaptive immune response, prevention of infection through vaccination and approaches to the therapeutic control of infection.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with a wide overview of the main healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria and fungi able to grow as biofilm.

Today synthetic dyes are used extensively in the textile dyeing, paper printing, color photography, pharmaceuticals, food and drink, cosmetic and leather industries.

This work describes the current knowledge of biochemical mechanisms regulating initiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli, which focuses on the control of activity of the DnaA protein.

Cheese is a significant part of European culture and its production, both industrial and artisanal, is a significant economic activity.

This volume provides a modern look on the age-old influenza infection and the preventive role of anti-influenza shots.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with a wide overview of the main healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria and fungi able to grow as biofilm.

This book is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed.

The type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathway is well recognized as a pathway activated by viral infections.

Malaria remains an alarming emergency in developing countries.

The use of microbial plant protection products is growing and their importance will strongly increase due to political and public pressure.

Hakan Wallander is a professor in Soil Biology and the reader is guided through the fascinating world below ground.

This book provides a comprehensive description of phosphate solubilizing microorganisms and highlights methods for the use of microphos in different crop production systems.

The dramatic worldwide increase in agricultural and industrial productivity has created severe environmental problems.

Milton Taylor, Indiana University, offers an easy-to-read and fascinating text describing the impact of viruses on human society.

This collection of papers includes some of the presentation given at the International congress of Plant Pathology held in Beijing in 2013 in the session of Recent Development in Postharvest Pathology.

The functional analysis of plant-microbe interactions has re-emerged in the past 10 years due to spectacular advances in integrative study models.

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This book provides salient information on all aspects of influenza/flu viruses affecting animals and humans.

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

This volume focuses on the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and its analogs in the induced sequestration of lymphocytes in secondary lymphoid organs or in the microenvironment of tissues involved in infection or autoimmune disease.

The book compiles an update information about the state of bioremediation in emerging Latin American countries.

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

The world population will grow more rapidly during the few coming years.

This book discusses the commercialization of biofuels and the Brazilian government policies for the promotion of renewable energy program in Brazil, which could be a learning module for several countries for implementing biofuels policy to improve their socioeconomic status and make them energy independent.

This book covers the state-of-the-art of modern MALDI (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization) and its applications.

Groundbreaking research over the last 10 years has given rise to the hologenome concept of evolution.

This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax.

This book provides a concise review of the thermo-physical phenomena which regulate heat and moisture transportation in Nearly Zero Energy Buildings envelopes, and their relationship with the growth of biological organisms.

Iron Acquisition by the Genus Mycobacterium summarizes the early evidence for the necessity of iron in mycobacteria and the discovery of the mycobacterial siderophores mycobactin, carboxymycobactin, and exochelin.

Microbes for Legume Improvement comprises 21 chapters and provides comprehensive information on concepts of microbial technology for the improvement of legumes grown in different agro-ecosystems.

Once considered exceptional rarities, extremophiles have become attractive objects for basic and applied research ranging from nanotechnology to biodiversity to the origins of life and even to the search for extraterrestrial life.

The filoviruses (Lake Victoria marburgvirus and the ebolaviruses) are etiological agents of severe hemorrhagic fevers with extraordinary high case-fatality rates for humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and probably other animals.

Significant zoonotic diseases have appeared with increasing frequency in recent years.

This book will help beekeepers understand the fundamentals of beekeeping science.

This book describes emerging and established industrial processes of biomining technologies used for the recovery of metals of economic interest from, e.