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  • Fungicides - Showcases of Integrated Plant Disease Management from Around the World
    Fungicides - Showcases of Integrated Plant Disease Management from Around the World NEW
    Editor Mizuho Nita
    ISBN 980-953-307-398-4
    328 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 65
    This book comprised of three sections that focus various aspects of fungicide usages and its consequences. In the eight-chapter first section, authors discuss implementation of Integrated Plant Disease Management on a wide array of crops grown in dif ...
  • Sustainable Degradation of Lignocellulosic Biomass - Techniques, Applications and Commercialization
    Sustainable Degradation of Lignocellulosic Biomass - Techniques, Applications and Commercialization NEW
    Editor Anuj K. Chandel and Silvio Silvério da Silva
    ISBN 978-953-51-1119-1
    275 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 69
    This book provides important aspects of sustainable degradation of lignocellulosic biomass which has a pivotal role for the economic production of several value-added products and biofuels with safe environment. Different pretreatment techniques and ...
  • Environmental Change and Sustainability
    Environmental Change and Sustainability NEW
    Editor Steven Silvern and Stephen Young
    ISBN 978-953-51-1094-1
    301 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 144
    Environments around the globe are undergoing human-induced change. Human population growth, rapid urbanization, expanding global economy, and the diffusion of western consumer lifestyles are placing increasing pressure on natural and social systems. ...
  • Evapotranspiration - An Overview
    Evapotranspiration - An Overview NEW
    Editor Stavros G. Alexandris
    ISBN 978-953-51-1115-3
    276 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 148
    Evapotranspiration - An Overview contains recent advances in the physics of evaporation and transpiration from a typical experimental site to large scale areas. It incorporates many years of authors experience with the latest research on the methods ...
  • Current Progress in Biological Research
    Current Progress in Biological Research NEW
    Editor Marina Silva-Opps
    ISBN 978-953-51-1097-2
    385 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 248
    Current Progress in Biological Research presents new insights into key topics from different areas of the biological sciences. Some of the topics covered in the book are antibiotic susceptibility, genomic rearrangement, historical biogeography, bioge ...
  • Autophagy - A Double-Edged Sword - Cell Survival or Death?
    Autophagy - A Double-Edged Sword - Cell Survival or Death?
    Editor Yannick Bailly
    ISBN 978-953-51-1062-0
    511 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 209
    The chapters in this book review the latest advances in the molecular mechanisms of autophagy, highlighting some of the most challenging research topics. The focus is mainly on how this basic cell defense mechanism comes into play in various patholog ...
  • Chromatin Remodelling
    Chromatin Remodelling
    Editor Danuta Radzioch
    ISBN 978-953-51-1087-3
    223 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 308
    The term "chromatin remodelling" is widely used to describe changes in chromatin structure which is controlled by histone-modifying enzymes, chromatin remodelling complexes, non-histone DNA-binding proteins and noncoding RNAs. Many human diseases suc ...
  • The Mediterranean Genetic Code - Grapevine and Olive
    The Mediterranean Genetic Code - Grapevine and Olive
    Editor Danijela Poljuha and Barbara Sladonja
    ISBN 978-953-51-1067-5
    314 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 210
    The book "The Mediterranean Genetic Code - Grapevine and Olive" collects relevant papers documenting the results of research in grapevine and olive genetics, as a contribution to overall compendium of the existing biodiversity for both species with i ...