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Systems Biology of Metabolic and Signaling Networks

Energy, Mass and Information Transfer

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Systems Biology represents a new paradigm aiming at a whole-organism-level understanding of biological phenomena, emphasizing interconnections and functional interrelationships rather than component parts. The study of network properties, and how they control and regulate behavior from the cellular...
Cover of Regulators and Effectors of Small GTPases, Part E: GTPases Involved in Vesicular Traffic
by John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon, W. E. Balch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001

Small GTPases play a key role in many aspects of contemporary cell biology: control of cell growth and differentiation; regulation of cell adhesion and cell movement; the organization of the actin cytoskeleton; and the regulation of intracellular vesicular transport. This volume and its companions...
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Applied Plant Cell Biology

Cellular Tools and Approaches for Plant Biotechnology

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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

The aim of this volume is to merge classical concepts of plant cell biology with the recent findings of molecular studies and real-world applications in a form attractive not only to specialists in the realm of fundamental research, but also to breeders and plant producers. Four sections deal with...
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Plant Bioinformatics

Decoding the Phyta

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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

This book: (i) introduces fundamental and applied bioinformatics research in the field of plant life sciences; (ii) enlightens the potential users towards the recent advances in the development and application of novel computational methods available for the analysis and integration of plant -omics...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

“Diagnostics in Plant Breeding” is systematically organizing cutting-edge research reviews on the development and application of molecular tools for the prediction of plant performance. Given its significance for mankind and the available research resources, medical sciences are leading the area...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

Legumes in the Omic Era provides a timely review of recent advances in legume genomics research and application.In this post-genomic era enormous amount of biological information is available which could be of huge potential use for crop improvement applications. This aspect of genomics assisted plant...
Cover of Demystifying Cancer Biology: What cancer actually is and the science behind its 'success'
by Mhairi Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

Demystifying Cancer Biology is a mini-textbook with a difference – written in clear, easy-to-understand language, this eBook will break down the barriers to understanding the complex world of the cellular and molecular biology of cancer.  Cancer biology is a highly specialized subject area...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

This work encapsulates the uses of miRNA across stem cells, developmental biology, tissue injury and tissue regeneration. In particular contributors provide focused coverage of methodologies, intervention and tissue engineering. Regulating virtually all biological processes, the genome’s...
Cover of Cellular Effects of Heavy Metals
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

The term “heavy metals” is used as a group name of toxic metals and metalloids (semimetals) causing contaminations and ecotoxicity. In strict chemical sense the density of heavy metals is higher than 5 g/cm3. From biological point of view as microelements they can be divided into two major groups....
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Methods in Molecular Biophysics

Structure, Dynamics, Function

by Igor N. Serdyuk, Nathan R. Zaccai, Joseph Zaccai
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007

Our knowledge of biological macromolecules and their interactions is based on the application of physical methods, ranging from classical thermodynamics to recently developed techniques for the detection and manipulation of single molecules. These methods, which include mass spectrometry, hydrodynamics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

Ribonucleases are a ubiquitous and functionally diverse group of enzymes that have a common ability to cleave RNA. Either through scission of internal phosphodiesters, or removal of nucleotides from RNA 5’ or 3’ ends, ribonucleases perform essential roles in gene expression and regulation, genome...
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Plant Genetic Engineering

Towards the Third Millennium

by A.D. Arencibia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000

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....
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by Geoffrey A. Cordell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1999

Alkaloids are a major group of natural products derived from a wide variety of organisms, which are used as medicinal and biological agents. This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more than forty years, The...
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Macroevolution

Explanation, Interpretation and Evidence

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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

This book is divided in two parts, the first of which shows how, beyond paleontology and systematics, macroevolutionary theories apply key insights from ecology and biogeography, developmental biology, biophysics, molecular phylogenetics and even the sociocultural sciences to explain evolution in...
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