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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The book describes how plant biomass can be used as renewable feedstock for producing and further processing various products. Particular attention is given to microbial processes both for the digestion of biomass and the synthesis of platform chemicals, biofuels and secondary products.
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Lignocellulose Conversion
Enzymatic and Microbial Tools for Bioethanol Production
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Bioethanol has been recognized as a potential alternative to petroleum-derived transportation fuels. Even if cellulosic biomass is less expensive than corn and sugarcane, the higher costs for its conversion make the near-term price of cellulosic ethanol higher than that of corn ethanol and even more...
by Luisa Gouveia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
This Brief provides a concise review of the potential use of microalgae for biofuel production. The following topics are highlighted: the advantages of microalgae over conventional biofuel-producing crops; technological processes for energy production using microalgae; microalgal biomass production...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This new edition provides a comprehensive look at the molecular genetics and biochemical basis of fungal biology, covering important model organisms such as Aspergilli while also integrating advances made with zygomycetes and basidiomycetes.
This book groups a total of 15 chapters authored by expert...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. It illustrates some fundamental discoveries about these eukaryotic microbes with regard to the overall structure of their genomes, their lifestyles and the molecular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book is the second volume on this topic within the series. With unique properties, nanomaterials are rapidly finding novel applications in many fields such as food, medicine, agriculture and pollution. Such applications include to treat cancer, nanosensors to detect food contamination, nanomaterials...
Dr. Mary's Monkey
How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing...
Chikungunya and Zika Viruses
Global Emerging Health Threats
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Chikungunya and Zika Viruses: Global Emerging Health Threats is the go-to resource for both historical and current information on this important virus that is rapidly increasing its global range. Epidemics since 2005 have spread from Africa and Asia, and through Europe, and an ongoing epidemic has...
Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox
Progress in Understanding Drug Resistance and Development of New Antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Antibiotic resistance, once a term appreciated only by microbiologists, has become a common topic in the popular press. Stuart Levy, one of the contributors to this collection, bears some of the responsibility for increasing public awareness with the publication of his book "The Antibiotic Paradox"...
by Jürgen Kranz
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Comparison is a powerful cognitive research tool in science since it does "across studies" to evaluate similarities and differences, e.g. across taxa or diseases. This book deals with comparative research on plant disease epidemics. Comparisons are done in specifically designed experiments...
Nano-Antimicrobials
Progress and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
There is a high demand for antimicrobials for the treatment of new and emerging microbial diseases. In particular, microbes developing multidrug resistance have created a pressing need to search for a new generation of antimicrobial agents, which are effective, safe and can be used for the cure...
The Rise of Yeast
How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, the examination of which, with a little care, tends to open up such very considerable issues as does yeast." Huxley was right. Beneath the very foundations...
Natural Defense
Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved to...
Lichen Secondary Metabolites
Bioactive Properties and Pharmaceutical Potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
This revised and extended edition provides in-depth insights into the benefits and untapped potential of lichen-derived bioactive compounds. The whole spectrum of these compounds’ biological and medical functions, from antibiotic to antiviral and anti-carcinogenic properties, is presented. In addition,...