The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants

The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants

Put Theory into Practice

The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants

Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants

Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants

This book explores the risks and benefits of crops that are genetically modified for pest resistance, the urgency of establishing an appropriate regulatory framework for these products, and the importance of public understanding of the issues.

Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants

Sanitation

Sanitation

Finally, an up-to-date guide to cleaning and disinfection for the food preparation and processing industries. It discusses a host of examples from various food industries as well as topics universal to many industries, including biofilm formation, general sanitizing, and clean-in-place systems. Equally, the principles related to contamination, cleaning compounds, sanitizers and cleaning equipment are addressed. As a result, concepts of applied detergency are developed in order to understand and solve problems related to the cleaning and disinfection of laboratories, plants and other industrial environments where foods and beverages are prepared.

Sanitation

Combustion Ash Residue Management

Combustion Ash Residue Management

Combustion Ash and Residue Management gives engineers in both Coal-Fired and Waste-to-Energy Plants the information they need to use the residues from the combustion process for beneficial purposes, or dispose of it safely.

Combustion Ash Residue Management

Hydroponics for the Home Gardener

Hydroponics for the Home Gardener

Hydroponics for the Home Gardener is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to growing organic, healthy vegetable, herbs and house plants without soil.

Hydroponics for the Home Gardener

Phospholipases in Plant Signaling

Phospholipases in Plant Signaling

This volume focuses on recent advances in the biochemical and molecular analysis of different families of phospholipases in plants and their roles in signaling plant growth, development and responses to abiotic and biotic cues.

Phospholipases in Plant Signaling

The Italians Blushing Gardener

The Italians Blushing Gardener

Kira Banks far prefers plants to people. After a heartbreaking affair, she lives alone in the beautiful Bella Terra Valley. But when restless billionaire Stefano Albani helicopters into the estate, Kiras peaceful existence is shattered for ever Notoriously charming but guarded, Stefano is fascinated by cautious, hidden Kira: this seduction will be unforgettable!

The Italians Blushing Gardener

Toxin

Toxin

What do the following have in common: the promise of Botox as the key to everlasting youthful looks; E. coli O157 hamburger disease; a mysterious illness which killed 35 heroin users in 2000; and the assassination by poisoned umbrella-tip of a Bulgarian dissident in the 1970s? The answer is that all of these are caused by toxins, the powerful biological poisons released by bacteria and some plants.In Toxin, Alistair Lax reveals the panoply of ways in which bacterial toxins overcome the defences of our cells. He explains how they work, how they are so successful in causing major diseases, the terrible human impact they have had, and how apparently ‘new’ diseases arise from them. He also discusses how we can combat toxins, and how we can harness their actions for beneficial purposes. Enlivened by the very human story of the persistence, rivalries, and insights from which modernmicrobiology grew, Toxin is the first widely accessible account of this exciting and important topic.

Toxin