Books in the Focus on Biotechnology series

Offers an account of environmental biotechnology in mature technological applications of soil remediation and cleanup of contaminated sites. Chapters are featured on experience and trends in bioremediation of contaminated soil, life cycle assessment software tools for remediation planning, and more.

Animal biotechnology is a broad umbrella encompassing the polarities of fundamental and applied research including molecular modelling, molecular and quantitative genetics, gene manipulation, development of diagnostics and vaccines and manipulation of tissue or digestion metabolism by growth promoters.

Contains contributions which illustrate the intimate interaction between productive organisms and the processing steps which run from the initial inoculation to the packaged product.

Biotechnology for the Environment: Wastewater Treatment and Modeling, Waste Gas Handling illustrates the current technological applications of microorganisms in wastewater treatment and in the control of waste gas emissions.

Development of novel approaches to characterise micro-organisms would also facilitate the understanding of the inherent metabolic diversity of the microbial world, in terms of adaptation to a wide range of biotopes and establishment of microbial consortia.

Deals with the fundamental aspects of cell immobilisation. This title contains chapters arranged into 4 parts: Materials for cell immobilisation/encapsulation, Methods and technologies for cell immobilisation/encapsulation, Carrier characterisation and bioreactor design, and Physiology of immobilised cells: techniques and mathematical modelling.

This volume represents an excellent description of the hottest topics in the field of phyto- and rhizoremediation. Newest approaches based on methods of molecular biology and genetic engineering are described, as well as plant science achievements.

Signals a turning point: the recognition that this specialized field of plant science must be integrated with engineering principles in order to develop efficient, and large scale applications of these technologies. This title collection of chapters that focus their attention on the interface of plant biotechnologies and engineering technologies.

Animal biotechnology is a broad umbrella encompassing the polarities of fundamental and applied research including molecular modelling, molecular and quantitative genetics, gene manipulation, development of diagnostics and vaccines and manipulation of tissue or digestion metabolism by growth promoters.

Development of novel approaches to characterise micro-organisms would also facilitate the understanding of the inherent metabolic diversity of the microbial world, in terms of adaptation to a wide range of biotopes and establishment of microbial consortia.

Biotechnology for the Environment: Wastewater Treatment and Modeling, Waste Gas Handling illustrates the current technological applications of microorganisms in wastewater treatment and in the control of waste gas emissions.

Divided into two volumes, this work presents an analysis of in vitro and recombinant DNA technologies for the improvement of grain, forage, and tree legumes. It presents the status and prospects of in vitro regeneration and genetic transformation expression and stability of transgenes modification of traits in almost all the important legumes.