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- Fungicides - Showcases of Integrated ...
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Mizuho Nita
ISBN 980-953-307-398-4
328 pages, May, 2013
Downloads: 79
- 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 Lignocell ...
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Anuj K. Chandel and Silvio Silvério da Silva
ISBN 978-953-51-1119-1
275 pages, May, 2013
Downloads: 79
- 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
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Steven Silvern and Stephen Young
ISBN 978-953-51-1094-1
301 pages, May, 2013
Downloads: 158
- 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. ...
- Agricultural Science
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Godwin Aflakpui
ISBN 978-953-51-0567-1
252 pages, April, 2012
Downloads: 3649
- This book covers key areas in agricultural science, namely crop improvement, production, response to water, nutrients, and temperature, crop protection, agriculture and human health, and animal nutrition. The contributions by the authors include mani ...
- Current Progress in Biological Research
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Marina Silva-Opps
ISBN 978-953-51-1097-2
385 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 253
- 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 ...
- Chromatin Remodelling
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Danuta Radzioch
ISBN 978-953-51-1087-3
223 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 312
- 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 Mechanisms of DNA Replication
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David Stuart
ISBN 978-953-51-0991-4
485 pages, February, 2013
Downloads: 811
- DNA replication is a fundamental part of the life cycle of all organisms. Not surprisingly many aspects of this process display profound conservation across organisms in all domains of life. The chapters in this volume outline and review the current ...
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Imran Ahmad Dar and Mithas Ahmad Dar
ISBN 978-953-307-468-9
630 pages, December, 2011
Downloads: 4546
- We are increasingly faced with environmental problems and required to make important decisions. In many cases an understanding of one or more geologic processes is essential to finding the appropriate solution. Earth and Environmental Sciences are by ...
- Viral Replication
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German Rosas-Acosta
ISBN 978-953-51-1055-2
144 pages, February, 2013
Downloads: 697
- This book provides a collection of in-depth reviews broadly related to the mechanisms of viral replication as applied to various viruses of critical relevance for human or animal disease. Specifically, this book contains six different chapters: 1) In ...
- Abiotic Stress Response in Plants - ...
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Arun Shanker and B. Venkateswarlu
ISBN 978-953-307-672-0
346 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 5269
- Plants, unlike animals, are sessile. This demands that adverse changes in their environment are quickly recognized, distinguished and responded to with suitable reactions. Drought, heat, cold and salinity are among the major abiotic stresses that ad ...
- Antimicrobial Agents
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Varaprasad Bobbarala
ISBN 978-953-51-0723-1
422 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 2011
- This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing antibacterial agents with clinical practicality and alternatives to synthetic antibacterial agents through detailed reviews of diseases and their control using alternative approaches. The ...
- Plants and Environment
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Hemanth KN. Vasanthaiah and Devaiah Kambiranda
ISBN 978-953-307-779-6
272 pages, October, 2011
Downloads: 4604
- Changing environmental condition and global population demands understanding the plant responses to hostile environment. Significant progress has been made over the past few decades through amalgamation of molecular breeding with non-conventional bre ...
- Abiotic Stress - Plant Responses and ...
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Kourosh Vahdati and Charles Leslie
ISBN 978-953-51-1024-8
410 pages, March, 2013
Downloads: 541
- "This book is not intended to cover all known abiotic stresses or every possible technique used to understand plant tolerance but, instead, to describe some of the widely used approaches to addressing such major abiotic stresses as drought, salinity, ...
- Mycotoxin and Food Safety in Develop ...
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Hussaini Anthony Makun
ISBN 978-953-51-1096-5
268 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 313
- This book provides information on the incidence of fungi and mycotoxins in some African countries, the health implications and possible intervention control strategies for mycotoxins in developing countries and in Africa in particular. It will theref ...
- Evapotranspiration - An Overview
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Stavros G. Alexandris
ISBN 978-953-51-1115-3
276 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 158
- 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 ...
- Economic Effects of Biofuel Production
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Dr.-Ing. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes
ISBN 978-953-307-178-7
452 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 4506
- This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic. Readers will find themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, ...
- Tropical Forests
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Padmini Sudarshana, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao and Jaya R. Soneji
ISBN 978-953-51-0255-7
388 pages, March, 2012
Downloads: 3035
- The astounding richness and biodiversity of tropical forests is rapidly dwindling. This has severely altered the vital biogeochemical cycles of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen etc. and has led to the change in global climate and pristine natural ecosyst ...
- Environmental Biotechnology - New Ap ...
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Marian Petre
ISBN 978-953-51-0972-3
301 pages, February, 2013
Downloads: 718
- Taking into consideration the outstanding importance of studying and applying the biological means to remove or mitigate the harmful effects of global pollution on the natural environment, as direct consequences of quantitative expansion and qualitat ...
- Organic Pollutants - Monitoring, Ris ...
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M. Nageeb Rashed
ISBN 978-953-51-0948-8
229 pages, January, 2013
Downloads: 749
- Organic pollutants cause several environmental problems if discharged to air or water body. The occurrence of organic pollutants in the ecosystem, their risk and removal methods are very important issues .This book deals with several aspects of orga ...
- Carbohydrates - Comprehensive Studie ...
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Chuan-Fa Chang
ISBN 978-953-51-0864-1
558 pages, November, 2012
Downloads: 1217
- It is my great honor and pleasure to introduce this comprehensive book to readers who are interested in carbohydrates. This book contains 23 excellent chapters written by experts from the fields of chemistry, glycobiology, microbiology, immunology, b ...