Biotechnology

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 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.

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 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.

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.

This book examines the commercial role of various microbial polysaccharides and recent advances in their production.

This book concerns with the analysis of the impact of globalization on international migration from a distinct international political economy perspective.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on domestication, genetic and genomic resources, breeding, genetic diversity, molecular maps & mapping of important biotic stress as well as nutritional quality traits, genome sequencing, comparative genomics, functional genomics and genetic transformation.

This textbook provides an overview on current cell culture techniques, conditions, and applications specifically focusing on human cell culture.

This book covers the latest advances, applications, and challenges in orthopedic biomaterials.

This volume describes the contributions made by women scientists to the field of agricultural biotechnology, the most quickly adopted agricultural practice ever adopted.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments achieved in the field of chemo/enzymatic cascades with topics spanning from design (in vitro and in vivo) to kinetic- and process modelling as well as process control.

This book provides a comprehensive look at one-dimensional (1D) mesoporous inorganic nanomaterials.

This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

Global industrial growth has resulted in numerous pollutants being introduced into the environment.

This book provides the first comprehensive state-of-the-art research on tree (dendritic) fluid flow and heat transfer.

This book addresses the pertinent issues that will need to be considered by those interested in physical security problems of the future.

This book addresses essential principles of research according to the scientific method for medical imaging technology research.

This book presents an in depth study of different aspects of pesticide use in food production.

This book celebrates the dawn of the rye genomics era with concise, comprehensive, and accessible reviews on the current state of rye genomic research, written by experts in the field for students, researchers and growers.

This book provides an overview on the basics in insect molecular biology and presents the most recent developments in several fields such as insect genomics and proteomics, insect pathology and applications of insect derived compounds in modern research.

Natural compounds obtained from plants represent a tremendous global market due to their use as food additives, cosmetics, in agriculture and in pharmaceuticals.

Biological control has become an attractive alternative strategy for the control of plant diseases to reduce the excessive use of agrochemicals and its health hazards.

This book highlights the latest discoveries about the nitrogen cycle in the soil.

This book is the first attempt for in-depth compilation of current knowledge on cisgenic crops and their  potential prospects as a sustainable substitute for the controversial genetically modified crops.

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.