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Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry. This work discusses the production of transgenic plants resistant to biotic and abiotic stress, the use of transgenic plants as bioreactors, and the use of plant genomics for genetic improvement and gene cloning.

Brassica crop species and their allies are important sources of edible roots, stems, leaves, buds and inflorescences, as well as of edible or industrial oils, condiments and forage. This book combines and presents both the basic and applied biological aspects of the Brassica species.

The field of statistical physics has undergone a spectacular development in years. This book covers topics that include DNA migration, wetting, chemical waves, granular media, molecular motors, biological pattern formation and motion, as well as practical problems such as heart diagnosis, internet traffic jamming, oil recovery and econophysics.

This comprehensive reference covers advancements in two types of CCC machines: the high speed CCCs without rotary seals and with coiled spools and centrifugal partition chromatographs (CPC) with rotary seals and interconnected channels.

The geometry of power exponents includes the Newton polyhedron, normal cones of its faces, power and logarithmic transformations. This work demonstrates the efficiency of the calculus with regard to several complicated problems from Robotics, Celestial Mechanics, Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics.

Proposes that usage-based charging schemes are essential to generate the incentives necessary for efficient operation of multiservice networks. The development of network technology is enabling sophisticated new services and applications which demand new charging models. The same technology provides the means to operate the right charging schemes.

Presents a checklist for EU sustainable landscape management, which is intended to serve both as an analytical tool of reference as well as a design tool for local, regional and European policy making on sustainable developments. This work includes organic agriculture to find out how organic agriculture contributes to the rural landscape.

Deals with quantum coherence and decoherence.

Since the sense of vision plays a primary role in animal biology, the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vision have a high degree of sensitivity and versatility. The aims of visual transduction research are to determine which molecules participate, and understand how they act to produce the electrical responses of photoreceptor cells.

Data fusion is a rapidly developing technology which involves the combination of information supplied by several NDT (Non-Destructive Test) sensors to provide a more complete understandable picture of structural integrity. This text provides an introduction to data fusion processes.

For the past 3.8 billion years, the geochemistry of the Earth's surface - its atmosphere, waters and exposed crust - has been determined by the presence of biota. This book traces the origin and impact of life on the geochemistry of the Earth's surface, with special emphasis on the human impact on global biogeochemical cycles.

Covers experimental and theoretical advances in the different forms of nanosilicon. This book discusses the applications of nanosilicon to single electron transistors, as photonic material, chemical and biological sensors at molecular scale, and silicon nanowire devices.

Deals with the authors' work on annulation using -oxoketene dithioacetals, a synthetic method that provides useful routes to an impressively wide range of fused heterocycles. This book includes chapters arranged by increasing heterocycle ring size that review advances in the field of heterocyclic chemistry with a focus on synthesis and reactions.

Provides an overview of ESIS Technical Committee 4's activities since the mid-1980s. This work describes a range of tests.

Thin-plated structures are used in building construction, automobile, aircraft, shipbuilding and other industries because of such factors as high strength-weight ratio, development of new materials and processes, and availability of efficient analytical methods. This book talks about the developments and trends in design of thin-walled structures.

Covers a variety of topics including terpene synthesis, amino acid synthesis, and combinatorial methods for generation of structural diversity. This title offers a review of representative syntheses and synthetic strategies for the introduction of cyclobutane into target molecules. It discusses the number of rings contained in the natural product.

Contains the papers presented at the eighth in IFAC's conference series on Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability. This title includes topics such as social aspects of technology transfer, managing the introduction of technological change, ethical aspects, and technology and environmental stability.

Addresses the analysis, modelling and control of traffic and transportation systems. This encyclopedia is suitable for professional and academic scientists and engineers in various disciplines concerned with the movement of people and materials.

Presents a comprehensive collection of reports which cover the field of educational technology around the world. This encyclopedia covers conceptual frameworks, technical developments, the design and distribution of instructional resources, the organization and professionalization of educational technology, and practical problems of classroom use.

Includes proceedings that contain the papers presented at the 16th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) held in Sydney, Australia in December 2000. These papers fall in the areas of classical control theory, computer architecture, real-time computer networks, and formal methods for real-time systems.

Suitable for civil, mining and petroleum engineers and geologists, this title answers many questions such as - Is Classification reasonably reliable? Can it be successful in crisis management of geohazards? Can a single Classification system be general for all rock structures? And is Classification a scientific approach?

Acronycine, a potent antitumor agent, was discovered in the bark of the small Australian Rutaceous tree, Acronychia baueri Schott. This work presents a survey of the isolation, structure determination, methods of synthesis, and the biological properties of acronycine, as well as an account of natural and synthetic analogues of acronycine.

Intends to bring together scientific understanding of wetting behaviour that has been gained from theoretical models and quantitative experimental observations. This book considers materials such as liquid metals or inorganic glasses in contact with solid metals or ceramics at temperatures of 200-2000oC.

Presents reviews on research on alkaloids. This book describes forty-six alkaloids from fifteen species of the genus Thalictrum, as well as 116 alkaloids of known structure from thirty-six species and subspecies of the genus. It also discusses isolation and structure elucidation, analysis, biosynthesis, cell culture, and pharmacology.

Offers an overview of the developments in the study of environmental systems. This encyclopedia covers subjects such as: agricultural systems; atmospheric processes and air quality; ecosystems; environmental chemistry; geology, soil processes and geophysics; hydrology, fluid dynamics and water quality; marine processes; and meteorology.

The rapid growth of biotechnology and drug design, based on rational principles of biopolymer interactions, has generated many developments in the field of biophysical chemistry. This series presents overviews of these developments and other topical areas that are attracting interest in the field.

Tells how the traditional boundaries of cell chemistry and physiology are being erased by molecular biology. This book deals with the chemistry of actin and myosin and contains chapters on cell motility, ATP synthesis in muscle, and contraction in smooth and skeletal muscle.

Focuses on protein translocation across membranes (Biochemical analyses of components comprising the protein translocation machinery of E Coli; and protein translocation genetics). This book also focuses on how proteins assemble into the inner membrane of E Coli.

Illustrates the extent to which the traditional distinction between biochemical and physiological processes is being obliterated by molecular biology. This work looks at the revolution in cell and molecular biology that is leading to core knowledge that provides an outline of the integrative and reductionist approach.

An introduction to the study of cell chemistry and physiology. This volume is not intended to be encyclopedic in nature but rather a general survey of the subject with an emphasis on those topics that are useful to an understanding of cell biology, and those that are important in the teaching of modern medicine.