Plant Genetic Engineering (Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding)

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Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry by generating transgenic varieties with altered properties. This is likely to change farming practice and reduce the potential negative impact of plant production on the environment. This volume shows the worldwide advances and potential benefits of plant genetic engineering focusing on the third millennium.
The authors discuss the production of transgenic plants resistant to biotic and abiotic stress, the improvement of plant qualities, the use of transgenic plants as bioreactors, and the use of plant genomics for genetic improvement and gene cloning. Unique to this book is the integrative point of view taken between plant genetic engineering and socioeconomic and environmental issues. Considerations of regulatory processes to release genetically modified plants, as well as the public acceptance of the transgenic plants are also discussed.
This book will be welcomed by biotechnologists, researchers and students alike working in the biological sciences. It should also prove useful to everyone dedicated to the study of the socioeconomic and environmental impact of the new technologies, while providing recent scientific information on the progress and perspectives of the production of genetically modified plants.

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Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It has proved to be one of the most critical challenges facing humankind. This book grew out of a two-year exploration conducted by the food security theme of The Rockefeller Foundation focusing on the potential for crop genetic improvement to contribute to food security among rural populations in Africa. It provides a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. It also presents an analysis of current plant breeding and biotechnology strategies for the key crops in Africa including: maize, sorghum, cowpea, rice, and cassava. The book will appeal to plant breeders, biotechnologists, and seed distributors as well as policy-makers in the area of agricultural development.

Biotechnology, Biosafety, and Biodiversity: Scientific and Ethical Issues for Sustainable Development

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Biotechnology, Biosafety, and Biodiversity: Scientific and Ethical Issues for Sustainable Development

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Plant Development and Biotechnology

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ASIN: 0849316146

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Biotechnology revolutionized traditional plant breeding programs. This rapid change produced new discussions on techniques and opportunities for commerce, as well as a fear of the unknown. Plant Development and Biotechnology addresses the major issues of the field, with chapters on broad topics written by specialists. The book applies an informal style that addresses the major aspects of development and biotechnology with minimal references, without sacrificing information or accuracy. Divided into five primary parts, this volume explores how the field emerged from its early theoretical base to the technical discipline of today. It also covers progress being made with genetically engineered plants, providing a snapshot of the field's controversial present. Part III discusses methods for preparing media, creating solutions and dilutions, and accomplishing sterile culture work. It investigates common methods for visualizing and documenting studies, and quantifying responses of tissue culture in research. Part IV delivers the essential foundation of plant tissue culture, introducing the three types of commonly used culture regeneration systems. Part V integrates propagation techniques with other methodologies for the modification and manipulation of germplasm. Part VI concludes with special sections. Subjects include in vitro plant pathology, recent research into genetic and phenotypic variation, the mechanics of commercial plant production, and the importance of clean cultures and problems associated with maintaining in vitro cultures. The final chapter analyzes entrepreneurship in the field and outlines the do's and don'ts to consider when launching an enterprise.

Bioactive Compounds from Natural Products: Isolation, Characterization and Biological Properties

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Bioactive Compounds from Natural Products: Isolation, Characterization and Biological Properties

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ASIN: 0748408908

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Interest in obtaining biologically active compounds from natural sources has recently spiked due to their low toxicity, complete biodegradability, availability from renewable sources, and in most cases, low cost. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources: Isolation, Characterization, and Biological Properties covers general methods and main topics in the research field of bioactive natural products. The book describes general screening methods, modern HPLC hyphenated techniques, and NMR methods in the structural elucidation of compounds and devotes individual chapters to specific topics of research. Surveys on compounds displaying important pharmacological activities are presented in chapters devoted to Mexican medicinal plants, anti-tumor drugs of natural origin, cancer chemopreventive flavonoids, and metabolites displaying anti-HIV, antioxidative, antimalarial, and anti-inflammatory activity. The final chapters are devoted to representative examples of research into marine metabolites: immunomodulating marine glycolipids and surveys of bioactive compounds from marine opisthobranchs and Japanese soft corals. With its focus on modern approaches to the isolation of biologically active natural products, this book encourages interdisciplinary work among chemists, pharmacologists, biologists, botanists, and agronomists with an interest in bioactive natural products.

Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development (Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe)

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Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development (Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe)

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ASIN: 079235480X

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Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development contains the proceedings from the Phytochemical Society of Europe's very successful symposium on this topic, held August 24-27, 1997 in Uppsala, Sweden.
In this volume, leading academic and industrial scientists discuss novel methods for assaying natural products to find new structure-activity relationships. Of key importance in this process is the availability and reliability of specific bioassay methods, but chapters also discuss chemical and biological diversity and how to dereplicate natural product extracts to increase efficiency in lead discovery.
Anti-tumor, HIV-inhibitory, antiprotozoal, anti-infective and immunomodulatory natural products are discussed. Various industrial projects are presented for the first time.
This volume bridges the gap between academic and industrial research and scientists, and should be required reading in drug companies and faculties of pharmacy, as well as serving scientists in pharmacognosy, pharmacology, phytochemistry, natural products and drug discovery.

Biochemical and Physiological Aspects of Ethylene Production in Lower and Higher Plants (Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology)

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Biochemical and Physiological Aspects of Ethylene Production in Lower and Higher Plants (Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology)

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Bioengineering of Crops: Report of the World Bank Panel on Transgenic Crops (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series, 23)

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Bioengineering of Crops: Report of the World Bank Panel on Transgenic Crops (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series, 23)
Henry Way Kendall , Roger Beachy , Thomas Eisner , Fred Gould , Robert Herdt , Peter H. Raven , Jozef S. Schell , and M. S. Swaminathan
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Biologically Active Natural Products: Pharmaceuticals

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Biologically Active Natural Products: Pharmaceuticals

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ASIN: 0849318874

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Biologically Active Natural Products: Pharmaceuticals demonstrates the connections between agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals and explores the use of plants and plant products in the formulation and development of pharmaceuticals. Experts from around the world examine a multitude of topics, including evaluation of extracts from tropical plants for potential anticancer activity and cancer chemopreventive activity; use of Chinese lacquer tree sap products as pharmaceutical intermediates; and new approaches to drug discovery from the rainforest.

Chromosome Engineering in Plants (Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding)

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Chromosome Engineering in Plants (Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding)

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ASIN: 0444882596

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This two-volume work surveys the entire range of general aspects of chromosome research on plants. This first volume is divided into two sections. Section A consists of 11 chapters covering the entire range of general aspects of chromosome research in plants (including a chapter on genetic engineering in crop improvement). Section B is devoted to cytogenetics of cereals and millets (wheat, rye, barley, triticale, oats, maize, rice, pearl millet, and minor millets). More than one chapter is devoted to the same crop to give a detailed treatment of chromosome research (including molecular biology) in these crops.

The second volume deals with cytogenetics of plant materials including legumes, vegetable and oil crops, sugar crops, forage crops, fibre crops, medicinal crops and ornamentals. This work will be useful both as a reference work and a teaching aid to satisfy a wide range of workers. Every chapter has been written by an expert who has been involved in chromosome research on a particular plant material for many years.

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All theoretical and observational topics relevant to the understanding of the thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernova phenomenon are thoroughly and consistently reviewed by a panel including the foremost experts in the field. The book covers all aspects, ranging from the observations of SNe Ia at all stages and all wavelengths to the 2D and 3D modelling of thermonuclear flames in very dense plasmas. Scenarios for close binary evolution leading to SNe Ia are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the homogeneity vs. diversity of SNe Ia and on their use as standard candles to measure cosmological parameters. The book reflects the recent and very significant progress made in both the modelling of the explosions and in the observational field.

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Needed it for class, used it beyond.......2005-08-02

Priciest book I ever needed to buy, but it was well worth it. I split it with my project group, and I recommend you do the same.

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THERMONUCLEAR FUSION IN STARS now includes software.
Interested in thermonuclear fusion? Buy a different book!
Recent Advances in Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology

Thermonuclear Fusion in Stars
James A. Green
Manufacturer: Greenwood Research
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THERMONUCLEAR FUSION IN STARS now includes software........2001-04-05

THERMONUCLEAR FUSION IN STARS by James A. Green has been updated to include STARCAL and CHANDRA software in C/C++ for computing fusion effects in stars. The WINDOWS source code for the STARCAL software has been appended to text, so that students may take advantage of pre-computed table-driven software for polytropic stellar models, bolometric corrections for atmospheric absorption of starlight, and tested algorithms from 10 different astrophysicists for computing p-p fusion and carbon cycle fusion effects. The software includes the effect of electrostatic screening on fusion processes, and the program may be easily applied to any star in the sky. A supernova progenitor report is prepared for stars over the 6.3 solar mass threshold for Type II supernovae, the derivation of which is presented in the text. The probability for a supernova progenitor to burst in this century is computed from formulae for stellar evolution derived in the text, as well as it's relative probability to explode within the progenitor class. STARCAL has been recently used to identify supernova progenitors in the night sky and compute their luminosity curves. In addition to stellar structure theory and thermonuclear process theory, the text presents a derivation of the abundances of the elements and a crunch-bang model for the Big Bang in addition to galaxy formation theory and star formation theory. The minimum masses of stars required to ignite specific nuclear reactions are derived, together with many other useful astrophysical formulae in this domain. The plates have been retouched somewhat in response to customer remarks.

Interested in thermonuclear fusion? Buy a different book!.......2000-04-29

When I bought this book, I was excited, thinking I was going to get a book devoted to the book's title, "Thermonuclear Fusion in Stars". Books devoted to this subject are very few, and thermonuclear energy generation in stars is usually just one chapter in books on stellar evolution and structure. Such chapters often do not go into much detail.

After skimming through the book upon its arrival, I was quite disappointed. The book is a rather motley collection of chapters pertaining to a variety of topics in astronomy, ranging from discussions on the names of the constellations and mythology, to the author's discourses on his views of cosmology (likely not peer-reviewed, and not generally accepted in the scientific community). There is little on stellar thermonuclear fusion, despite the book's title. The more scientific chapters look to be mostly rehashes of material that exists in other books, and dating back to the classic texts of the 60s.

The book is apparently published by the author. The pages are generally poor quality photocopies from a not-too-well typed manuscript, and the figures and photographs are often too small and/or unreadable. I found numerous technical and editorial errors in the text. The bibliography is short, consisting primarily of references to the author's other publications.

For a "scientific" book, I did find the cover refreshing: it features a nice photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, a handsome young man playing the guitar in a scenic outdoors setting, and a pretty girl in a bikini!

Well, here's my bottom line: if you want a good book on stellar astrophysics, including thermonuclear fusion, go buy one of the excellent books available, such as those by Clayton ("Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis"), Kippenhahn & Weigert ("Stellar Structure and Evolution"), or Hansen and Kawaler ("Stellar Interiors"). Indeed, there are quite a few other excellent books about stellar physics that are in print. These books will do a better job of educating you, and they're less expensive than the $80+ you'll pay for Green's book!

Recent Advances in Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology.......1999-10-15

On the nuclear astrophysics side, this book reviews the conventional theory, but makes advances in the presentation of nuclear forces, both in the strong and weak interaction domains. The properties of the strong interaction are derived directly from generalized vector-boson field equations, as are the electroweak field equations. The book shows how to obtain symmetry properties of weak decays from the field equations for the electroweak interaction that unify electromagnetism and the weak interaction. On the astrophysics side, it derives general formulae for the minimum stellar mass to ignite fusion reactions in stars that are perhaps the most rigorous closed-form solutions known. The latest state of the art of this volume derives the supernova minimum mass as 6.23 solar masses, just under the 6.5 solar mass for the progenitor of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The low mass of this progenitor was a bit of mystery until this minimum mass was deduced. There are a number of other advances in stellar structure theory, including the details of the energy transport partition inside stars. Most impacting is probably Chapter 9 on stellar evolution, which includes cosmology. This volume derives Crunch-Bang cosmology from energy conservation rules and manages to derive the cycle time of the oscillating universe in a convincing way at about 218 billion years. Introducing a scheme for computing the maximum energy of a photon that can be generated by a known galactic process yeilds a limit of 120 GeV for observable photons. Since single photons of higher energy are occaisionally observed, we may conclude that we observe relics of other Big Bang events from time to time that originate in exterior oscillating universe systems of galaxies. Also, the book considers the crucial importance of observational time-delay in measurements of the Hubble constant, as supported by observational data from Micheal Rowan-Robinson's COSMOLOGY. The solution H(t) = (2/3)/t is derived as a special case approximating the present situation, where H is the Hubble constant in meters per second per meter, and t is the age is the age of the universe in seconds. However, an observational time-delay L/c must be included for a galaxy at L, so that H(t,L) = (2/3)/(t - L/c). Then when c = HL, we find L = (3/5)ct, so that we can only see (3/5) of the way back to the Big Bang with any space telescope we may construct. That is, the era of galaxy formation will be forever outside of the realm of observation. The book also includes the author's theory of galaxy formation based on the first Big Bang fireball phase transition He++ -> He+, and the theory of star formation in early galaxies with the consequences for galactic evolution. Other review material, including a table of contents, may be found on-line

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