Biotechnology

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

This book describes the historical importance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.

Microbial applications encompass areas including biotechnology, chemical engineering, and alternative fuel development.

Microbial applications encompass areas including biotechnology, chemical engineering, and alternative fuel development.

This book covers state-of-the-art development in microfluidics-enabled soft manufacturing (MESM), ranging from fundamentals to applications.

This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being 'respectable' has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty years.

This interdisciplinary book covers the fundamentals of optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities, light-matter interaction, and biomolecular structure with a focus on applications in biosensing.

This book focuses on the discoveries in M.

Microencapsulation has become a promising technology for new applications in fields like drug delivery, biosensing, biomaterials, catalysis, intelligent microstructures and microsystems, as well as in the field of consumer goods.

Biorefineries compiles the basic science and technologies used to convert terrestrial and aquatic biomass into essential molecular compounds and polymeric materials.

Biohydrogen is considered the most promising energy carrier and its utilization for energy storage is a timely technology.

Biotechnology is the technical application that uses living organisms or biological systems to make products that have a profound impact on agriculture, environment, and human health.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of practical applications of neuroprosthesis based on functional electrical stimulation for restoration of motor functions lost by spinal cord injury and discusses the use of brain-computer interfaces for their control.

Process Technology provides a general overview about chemical and biochemical process technology.

The field of nanotechnology for targeted therapy initiated more than decade ago has grown fast and interest is increasing.

Medical Physics covers the applied branch of physics concerned with the application of concepts and methods of physics to diagnostics and therapeutics of human diseases.

Medical Physics covers the applied branch of physics concerned with the application of concepts and methods of physics to diagnostics and therapeutics of human diseases.

Biotechnology is the technical application that uses living organisms or biological systems to make products that have a profound impact on agriculture, environment, and human health.

Biohydrogen is considered the most promising energy carrier and its utilization for energy storage is a timely technology.

Process Technology provides a general overview about chemical and biochemical process technology.

Microencapsulation has become a promising technology for new applications in fields like drug delivery, biosensing, biomaterials, catalysis, intelligent microstructures and microsystems, as well as in the field of consumer goods.

Biorefineries compiles the basic science and technologies used to convert terrestrial and aquatic biomass into essential molecular compounds and polymeric materials.

With the high interest in renewable resources, the field of algal biotechnology has undergone a huge leap in importance in recent years.

Personalized health care to manage diseases and optimized treatment is crucial for everyone to maintain health quality.

This book describes how the genome sequence contributes to our understanding of allopolyploidisation and the genome evolution, genetic diversity, complex trait regulation and knowledge-based breeding of this important crop.

Separation operations are crucial throughout the process industry with respect to energy consumption, contribution to investments and ability to achieve the desired product with the right specifications.

Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms.

This book provides an introduction to the basic science and technologies for the conversion of biomass (terrestrial and aquatic) into chemicals and fuels, as well as an overview of innovations in the field.

This book puts forward a new model of acculturation combining psychological, sociolinguistic and identity theories to study Turkish immigrants across the globe.

With the high interest in renewable resources, the field of algal biotechnology has undergone a huge leap in importance in recent years.

This well-established textbook on biocatalysis provides a basis for undergraduate and graduate courses in modern organic chemistry, as well as a condensed introduction into this field.

This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country.

In order to feed the world, global agriculture will have to double food production by 2050.

This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper's critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa.

One of the most profound paradigms that have transformed our understanding about life over the last decades was the acknowledgement that microorganisms play a central role in shaping the past and present environments on Earth and the nature of all life forms.

This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from starting material to processes and products including market demands.

For humankind, the most irreducible idea is the concept of life itself.

This book presents and integrates innovative ways in which the disciplines of school, clinical, and counseling psychology conceptualize and approach mental health assessment, prevention, and intervention for promoting child and youth well-being.

This contributed volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and subject-based reviews on the current status of active ingredients, sustainable use, biodiversity and conservation of certain endangered medicinal plants.

Increasing interest has been emerging in the last decade in the field of signal recognition and transduction.

Volume I provides an in-depth discussion of the most recent developments of crucical biosensor components.

The Berne Symposium invited leading scientists of risk assessment research with transgenic crops on an international level in order to enhance the discussion regulators and members of the biotech industry.

There is an urgent need for guidelines for monitoring of genetically modified higher plants, GMHP.

Die Anwendung von Gentechnik bei Pflanzen ist in Europa nach wie vor umstritten.

From the basic science to potential and approved clinical applications the most recent data in the rapidly growing field of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are summarized in this topical volume.

Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (AM) is the most common mycorrhizal type involved in agricultural systems, and the most widespread plant root symbiosis.

Modern analytical biotechnology is focused on the use of a set of enabling platform technologies that provide contemporary, state-of-the-art tools for genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, drug discovery, screening, and analysis of natural product molecules.