Biotechnology

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of the most up-to-date research in the genomics, transcriptomics, and breeding of pine species across Europe, North America, and Australia.

This work is the first compilation of comprehensive deliberations on botany, cytogenetics and sex determination, genetic resources and diversity, classical breeding, molecular markers and genome sequence resources, and application of omics technology including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics resources in the multipurpose medicinal plant seabuckthorn.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a 'ground' for the further development of quantitative approaches.

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to 3D printing and biofabrication and covers the recent advances in additive manufacturing for tissue engineering.

The book covers the microbiological, environmental and biotechnological aspects of alkane production.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to the prevention, management of injury, risk factor mitigation, and rehabilitation in track and field athletes.

This book reviews collagen-based biomaterials that have been applied broadly to tissue engineering and local drug delivery applications and lays out a landscape for developing a multifunctional biograft material from collagen polymers.

Concise chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide spectrum of topics on lipid and membrane formation in microbes (Archaea, Bacteria, eukaryotic microbes).

This contributed volume sheds new light on waste management and the production of biofuels.

This textbook introduces readers in an accessible and engaging way to the nuts and bolts of protein expression and engineering.

There is a growing interest in unmet needs for the development of a new discipline in drug discovery and in university education on polypharmacology.

This book presents novel techniques, current trends, and cutting-edge technologies in energy and biochemical processes.

This single volume brings together both theoretical developments in the field of motor control and their translation into such fields as movement disorders, motor rehabilitation, robotics, prosthetics, brain-machine interface, and skill learning.

This volume is a monograph of the genus Diplusodon (Lythraceae), written by the world authority on this plant group.

This book gives a comprehensive overview on the various aspects of Trichoderma, a filamentous fungus ubiquitously present in soil.

This book provides a fresh, updated perspective of the current status and perspectives in genetic improvement of a diverse array of tropical crops.

This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods.

A unique feature of this book is its focus on nanotechnological solutions for the production of bioenergy and biofuels.

This book presents, in 26 chapters, the status quo in epigenomic profiling.

This volume focuses on the prospects of the conversion of biomass into biofuels including ethanol, butanol, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, syn-gas and other useful products.

This reference work presents the origins of cells for tissue engineering and regeneration, including primary cells, tissue-specific stem cells, pluripotent stem cells and trans-differentiated or reprogrammed cells.

This book reviews recent advances in the emerging field of computational network biology with special emphasis on comparative network analysis and network module detection.

This contributed volume compiles the latest improvements in the field of biotechnology.

The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria and archaea (SRBA) is impressive and new isolates are being reported continuously.

This pioneering book focuses on Neotropical endophytic fungi, providing a comprehensive overview of their diversity, ecology, and biotechnological applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

Proteomics, like other post-genomics tools, has been growing at a rapid pace and has important applications in numerous fields of science.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the Third Italian National Conference on Sensors, held in Rome, Italy, from 23 to 25 February 2016.

The series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry presents critical reviews on present and future trends in the research of heterocyclic compounds.

This book covers the current states of microbial and related technologies that have been developed for the efficient production of chemicals, fuels and materials by integrating strain and enzyme development, fermentation processes, and downstream processes.

This textbook integrates the classic fields of mechanics-statics, dynamics, and strength of materials-using examples from biology and medicine.

This book gives insights into the agricultural policies in several countries located in different continents.

This book discusses the main stem cell niches under distinct pathophysiological conditions.

This Brief focuses on the cancer therapy available till date, from conventional drug delivery to nanomedicine in clinical trial.

This book reviews the current knowledge on tunable hydrogels, including the range of different materials and applications, as well as the existing challenges and limitations in the field.

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application.

This book offers an ecosystem-oriented overview of the diversity, ecological role, and biotechnological applications of marine fungi as well as an in-depth introduction to the marine environment, fungal classification, and ecological principles.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the deadliest threats to global public health.

"e;Regions of memory"e; are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal.

This book fills the need for a simplified text covering western blotting protocols aimed not just at high school and college students, but the researcher with little to no experience in these techniques.

The book uniquely covers all aspects of anaerobic biodegradation of the environmentally important hydrocarbons.

Fall-induced hip fracture is an epidemic health risk among elderly people.

Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power.

This book narrates the development of various biomimetic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors, such as pressure, flow, acceleration, chemical, and tactile sensors, that are inspired by sensing phenomena that exist in marine life.

This book discusses the role of probiotics and prebiotics in maintaining the health status of a broad range of animal groups used for food production.

This book uses qualitative research methods to examine why students in an Indian context are being identified as having learning disabilities on criteria that are largely drawn from the context of the Global North.

This book provides an overview of the advances on nanostructured celullose from different obtaining forms: natural plants and bacterial microorganisms.

This book covers information on the economics; botany, taxonomy, and origin; germplasm resources; cytogenetics and nuclear DNA; genetic improvement efforts of scion cultivars; genetic and genomic improvement efforts of rootstocks; genetic and physical mapping; genomic resources; genome and epigenome; regulatory sequences; utility of whole-genome sequencing and gene editing in trait dissection; flowering and juvenility; cold hardiness and dormancy; fruit color development; fruit acidity and sugar content; metabolomics; biology and genomics of the microbiome; apple domestication; as well as other 'omics' opportunities and challenges for genetic improvement of the apple.

This book presents current trends and developments in the rapidly growing field of biomimetics.