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Pseudomonas volume 5 is intended to collect new information on the genomics of saprophytic soil Pseudomonas, as well as functions related to genomic islands. Pseudomonas are ubiquitous inhabitants and this volume explores life styles in different settings and sheds further insights on the wide metabolic potential of this microbe for the removal of pollutants and production of added-value products. This volume also explores how Pseudomonas responds and reacts to environmental signals, including detection of cell density. This fifth volume covers the following topics: - Genomics - Physiology and metabolism - Databases - Gene regulation - Pathogenesis - Catabolism and biotransformations. Pseudomonas volume 5 will be of use to researchers working on these bacteria, particularly those studying virulence, genomics, physiology, biotechnology, biotransformations, etc. Advanced students in biology, medicine and agronomy will also find this volume a valuable reference during their studies.

Pseudomonas. --- Molecular microbiology. --- Microorganisms --- Molecular bacteriology --- Microbiology --- Molecular biology --- Pseudomonadaceae --- Molecular aspects --- Bacteriology. --- Microbiology. --- Biotechnology. --- Genetic engineering. --- Proteomics. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Applied Microbiology. --- Genetic Engineering. --- Proteins --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Medical microbiology.

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In the past, insecticide development has been guided mostly by chemo-rational and bio-rational design based on understanding of the physiology and ecology of insects and crops. A limitation in each new class of compounds is the evolution of resistance in populations of key pests, which ultimately leads to control failures. This phenomenon and the desire to produce more selective and biorational compounds serve as the driving force to develop advanced technologies for insecticide design. Among the highlights of this book are the use of nanotechnology to increase potency of available insecticides, the use of genetic engineering techniques for controlling insect pests, the development of novel insecticides that bind to unique biochemical receptors, the exploration of natural products as a source for environmentally acceptable insecticides, and the use of insect genomics and cell lines for determining biological and biochemical modes of action of new insecticides.

Insecticides. --- Insecticides --- Mechanism of action. --- Pesticides --- Agriculture. --- Biochemistry. --- Nanotechnology. --- Environmental management. --- Genetic engineering. --- Animal physiology. --- Biochemistry, general. --- Environmental Management. --- Genetic Engineering. --- Animal Physiology. --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Physiology --- Composition

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Written by leading international experts in the field of plant metabolic engineering, this book discusses, mainly, applications of plant metabolic engineering. Metabolic engineering, which is part of second generation biotechnology, has made several contributions at basic level as well as at conceptualising products ever since its emergence in the early 1980s. Applications resulting from metabolic engineering are expected to play a very important role in future for plant breeding, e.g. for improved resistance or improved traits concerning health promoting constituents, and production of fine chemicals such as medicines, flavors and fragrances. Considering the tremendous progress that has been made since our first book in the year 2000 urgency was felt to bring together cutting edge research in plant metabolic engineering in applied aspects as a handy reference book. This book has been predominantly dedicated to applied research of metabolic engineering, and a part of it has been allotted for fundamental research that has potential applications. This book is a unique source of information for all those involved with plants as chemical factories of fine chemicals and also to more experienced scientists who work on transgenic plants, besides, senior researchers, graduate students, post-doctroral students, teachers and students as well.

Plants --- Plant biotechnology. --- Plant physiology. --- Biochemical engineering. --- Metabolism. --- Bio-process engineering --- Bioprocess engineering --- Biochemistry --- Biotechnology --- Chemical engineering --- Botany --- Physiology --- Crop biotechnology --- Crops --- Agricultural biotechnology --- Plant metabolism --- Metabolism --- Plant physiology --- Effect of anaerobiosis on --- Biochemistry. --- Botany. --- Agriculture. --- Chemistry. --- Genetic engineering. --- Biochemistry, general. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Chemistry/Food Science, general. --- Genetic Engineering. --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Transgenic organisms --- Physical sciences --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition --- Plant science. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Floristic botany

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Rice has been chosen as the model cereal for functional genomics by the international scientific community not only because it is a major global food crop but also because of its small genome, the ease with which it can be transformed, its well understood genetics with detailed genome physical maps and dense molecular markers, and the existence of great similarities in gene sequence, gene structure, gene order and gene function among all the cereals and grasses. Genes identified in rice as being important agronomically are also important in other cereals, and any understanding of rice genes is directly applicable to other cereals. Rice Functional Genomics - Challenges, Progress and Prospects covers the whole spectrum of rice functional genomics. The contributed chapters reflect the collective wisdom of more than 70 leading scientists working in this emerging and fascinating area of science. In addition to overviews of the current status of genome sequencing and annotation, various chapters describe the tools and resources being developed worldwide such as expressed sequence tags (ESTs), full-length cDNAs, gene expression profiles (transcriptome, proteome and metabolome), chemical- and radiation-induced mutants, TILLING resources, insertional knockout mutants (T-DNA, transposon and retrotransposon) and activation tags. Exploitation of naturally occurring alleles, Oryza map alignments, gene targeting by homologous recombination and gene silencing by RNAi as well as the application of functional genomics tools for crop improvement and the power of comparative genomics are covered in separate chapters. Various bioinformatics tools and resources pertinent to rice functional genomics are also described and discussed. It is hoped that scientists involved in all aspects of rice research will find this book useful as it spans the divide between molecular biology and plant improvement. About the Editor: Narayana M. Upadhyaya is currently a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia and leads the group working on Rice Functional Genomics. Previously, he pioneered research into the sequencing of the Rice Ragged Stunt Oryzavirus (RRSV) genome and produced RRSV genome-based synthetic resistance gene constructs while working on a Rockefeller Foundation-funded Rice Biotechnology project (1990-1997) which involved international collaboration. He has been the principal investigator in the bilateral science and technology collaborative research with China (1997-2000). He was instrumental in developing and setting up the rice transformation facility at CSIRO Plant Industry not only for RRSV research but also for other research projects where rice has been used as a model system. He has developed the T-DNA double right border (DRB) vector technology for generating selectable marker-free (SMF) transgenic plants. Since then he has developed a research project on "Rice Functional Genomics" (funded by Australia’s RIRDC and the NSW Centre for Agricultural Genomics) aimed at determining the function of rice genes using an insertional mutagenesis approach. The tools and resources being developed in the group are internationally competitive and as a result CSIRO Plant Industry has become an active member of the International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium. Dr. Upadhyaya has 50 refereed papers, 11 invited presentations and over 50 conference presentations to his credit.

Rice --- 575.113 --- 631.52 --- 633.18 --- 631.52 Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Lowland paddy --- Lowland rice --- Oryza sativa --- Paddy (Plant) --- Padi --- Palay --- Oryza --- 633.18 Rices. Oryza --- Rices. Oryza --- 575.113 Gene. Genetic apparatus. Genome --- Gene. Genetic apparatus. Genome --- Genome mapping --- Molecular genetics --- Genome mapping. --- Molecular genetics. --- Biochemistry. --- Plant genetics. --- Botany. --- Genetic engineering. --- Food science. --- Biochemistry, general. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plant Sciences. --- Genetic Engineering. --- Food Science. --- Science --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Genetics --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition --- Plant science. --- Food—Biotechnology. --- Floristic botany

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Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings' relationship to the organic world. Bamford also exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness do depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. Her innovative analysis includes a discussion of the advent of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Genetic engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Ethnobiology --- Ethnoecology --- Human body --- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Anga (Papua New Guinean people) --- Hamday (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kamea (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kapau (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinea people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papuan people) --- Watut (Papua New Guinean people) --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Social aspects --- Psychology. --- Agriculture. --- Ethnobiology. --- Ecology --- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) --- Gulf District (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- assisted reproductive technologies. --- biodiversity. --- biologists. --- biology. --- biotechnology. --- cloning. --- environmental impacts. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic research. --- genetically modified organisms. --- gmos. --- human condition. --- human genome mapping. --- human impact. --- human relationships. --- melanesia. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- organic life. --- papua new guinea. --- physiological. --- reproduction. --- reproductive technologies. --- sex and culture. --- sexual reproduction. --- social science. --- western ideas.