Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Hormones

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Hardbound. This book provides up-to-date coverage at an advanced level of a range of topics in the biochemistry and molecular biology of plant hormones, with particular emphasis on biosynthesis, metabolism and mechanisms of action. Each contribution is written by acknowledged experts in the field, providing definitive coverage of the field. No other modern book covers this subject matter at such an advanced level so comprehensively. It will be invaluable to university libraries and scientists in the plant biotechnology industries.

Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792345878

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Ethylene is a simple gaseous plant hormone produced by higher plants, bacteria and fungi. Thanks to new tools that have become available in biochemistry and molecular genetics, parts of the ethylene biosynthesis, perception and signal transduction reactions have been elucidated. This knowledge has been applied to enhance the quality of a number of agronomically important crops. In Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene, leading figures in the field provide surveys of the current state of ethylene biosynthesis and action, perception and signal transduction pathways, senescence, biotechnological control, and the involvement of ethylene in pathogenesis and stress. Audience: Indispensable to all academic, industrial and agricultural researchers as well as undergraduates and graduates in plant biology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and food science.

Plant Hormone Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Plant Hormone Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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ASIN: 0896035778

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Established investigators from around the world describe in step-by-step detail their best techniques for the study of plant hormones and their regulatory activities. These state-of-the-art methods include contemporary approaches to identifying the biosynthetic pathways of plant hormones, monitoring their levels, characterizing the receptors with which they interact, and analyzing the signaling systems by which they exert their effects. Comprehensive and fully detailed for reproducible laboratory success, Plant Hormone Protocols offers plant biologists an indispensable compendium of today's most powerful methods and strategies to studying plant hormones, their regulation, and their activities.

Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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ASIN: 0792329848
Release Date: 2007-03-23

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Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants grow and develop. While metabolism provides the power and building blocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate them to produce the form that we recognize as a plant. In addition, hormones play a governing role in the process of reproduction.
This book is a description of these natural chemicals: how they are synthesized and metabolized, how they act at both the organismal and molecular levels, how we measure them, and a description of some of the roles they play in regulating plant growth and development. This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed monograph published in 1987 under the title Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development. All chapters have been rewritten to include the latest information on plant hormones, and several totally new chapters have been included, particularly with reference to the molecular biology of plant hormones. The book is a selected collection of newly written, carefully integrated and illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones and the experimental work that is the foundation of this information.
It is directed at advanced students and professionals in the plant sciences: botanists, biochemists and molecular biologists; and those involved with the horticultural, agricultural and forestry sciences. It can serve as a text and guide for graduate level courses on plant hormones or plant growth and development, and as a supplement to courses on plant or comparative development. Scientists in other disciplines who wish to learn more about hormones and their role in plant development will also find this text of value.

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Remotely-sensed images of the Earth's surface provide a valuable source of information about the geographical distribution and properties of natural and cultural features. This fully revised and updated edition of a highly regarded textbook deals with the mechanics of processing remotely-senses images. Presented in an accessible manner, the book covers a wide range of image processing and pattern recognition techniques. Features include:

New topics on LiDAR data processing, SAR interferometry, the analysis of imaging spectrometer image sets and the use of the wavelet transform.
An accompanying CD-ROM with:
- updated MIPS software, including modules for standard procedures such as image display, filtering, image transforms, graph plotting, import of data from a range of sensors.
- A set of exercises, including data sets, illustrating the application of discussed methods using the MIPS software.
- An extensive list of WWW resources including colour illustrations for easy download.

For further information, including exercises and latest software information visit the Author's Website at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.mather/ComputerProcessing3/

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Excellent book.......2006-06-13

Matlab based programs would have been more beneficial because many of them use matlab only.

very good book.......2006-06-13

Easy to understand. It is essential to a researcher. It would have been rated as an excellent book if it includes the Matlab programming and Erdas rather than any other software like MIPS.

I have answers for what-why-how after reading it..........2001-06-28

I bought it just looking at the table of contents at ... website, and I got exactly what I was looking for !! A complete book on image processing/interpretation for remote-sensing imageries. There is even a concise introduction on remote-sensing principles. The book is concisely detailed and have clear how-to-do theoretical/mathematical explanations(often lacking in others) on every topic. And the best point, every section/method is referred to key publicatons for anyone interested in in-depth study of a topic !!!

Excellent book with CD tools as well.......1999-08-30

I checked the book out from my library to read for my thesis, but the book is so good that I want to add it to my own collection. I have used it so much, that I'll need my own copy! The CD that comes with the book is also very good. The programs run very quickly on today's fast PC's. It's a great tool.

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This textbook, pitched at the advanced-undergraduate to beginning-graduate level, focuses on mathematical topics of relevance in contemporary physics that are not usually covered in texts at the same level. Its main purpose is to help students appreciate and take advantage of the modern trend of very productive symbiosis between physics and mathematics. Three major areas are covered: (1) linear operators; (2) group representations and Lie algebra representations; (3) topology and differential geometry. The following are noteworthy features of this book: the style of exposition is a fusion of those common in the standard physics and mathematics literatures; the level of exposition varies from quite elementary to moderately advanced, so that the book is of interest to a wide audience; despite the diversity of the topics covered, there is a strong degree of thematic unity; much care is devoted to detailed cross-referencing so that, from any part of the book, the reader can trace easily where specific concepts or techniques are introduced.

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Wonderful for a calculational refresher/reference.......2006-09-08

(NB. I would give Lam's book 4.5 stars if I could, as there are some minor issues.)

First of all, I bought this book *despite* its being published by World Scientific, a publisher that I consider to have a rather dodgy catalogue. And this book is a pleasant surprise. Having finished a detailed read of it, I expect that I will use it before Nakahara when the rubber has to hit the road.

I bought the book in order to have a single primary calculational reference on the topics it surveys, and worked through the exercises as a refresher and to deal with notation. When I first bought the book, I was incredulous about the author's claim that he used the material in a year-long course for undergraduates, but after working through all but five or so exercises in the last 25 chapters, I find that the vast majority of the exercises can be performed in the book's margins (perhaps by sometimes writing a bit small and using a calculator for numerical matrix manipulations).

That said, they are at a nice level for acquiring basic facility; the emphasis is on calculation, not abstraction and deep understanding. Any exercises the reader has not done elsewhere should be done as they are encountered, and the book needs to be supplemented: either by good lectures or (for the autodidact) more advanced supplements (I would suggest Fulton and Harris for representation theory, and Nakahara for geometry) to provide better insight and foster intuition. Proofs requiring a high degree of abstraction are omitted, which is good for a calculational reference but often leaves motivation and structure more obscure than a Springer "GTM" on the same subject would.

Broadly speaking, one can see the text as comprised from three segments: chapters 1-17, on "the stuff that nearly all practicing physicists will have seen at some point" (though perhaps in different modes of presentation); chapters 18-28, on representation theory; and the remaining chapters, on geometry (with a smattering of topology). The middle section is probably the most demanding, excepting possibly chapters 41-43, which cover characteristic classes and the index theorem. For this there can be no remedy: the subject matter is hard. But Lam makes a gallant effort, including what he can and omitting what he must to keep the book at its level.

Most seniors will be overmatched by its later parts. Though the exercises are generally easy (occasionally some minor subtlety [or an appeal to other sources] is required), the concepts are among the deepest and subtlest mathematics that most physicists (or non-PhD mathematicians) will ever encounter, and Lam is not the place to gain a complete understanding of any of them. On the other hand, the emphasis on calculations, actual coordinates, and (best of all) connections with useful physics make the book very nearly ideal for a student or practitioner who wants to see the rubber hit the road and is prepared to supplement the text.

There are a few misprints, but not many (I have compiled a list of errata and can be reached at schuntsm AT nps DOT edu), and the author's style ensures that most mistakes will be obvious during a careful read. The level of rigor is just right for the intended audience, and the exercises are well-positioned: the book can be read without them, but they are not onerous and can serve to (re)familiarize the reader with the details.

For my stated purposes, I cannot think of a better book. It is concrete and accessible, and includes practical examples from physics. The reader need not be involved with strings to find some benefit from this book.

(I wish there was a complementary book dealing with differential equations, numerical techniques/algorithms and stochastic processes in the same style!)

All in all, this is a wonderful book, well worth the price for the paperback. Don't buy the hardback--just apply some good tape to the covers: they may see a lot of use.

Motivates learning and makes advanced material seem easy.......2006-08-19

Though I have yet to finish the book, I am incredibly pleased with it so far. There's no such thing as a perfect book; Lam succeeds by giving us a book that is a good balance between some extremely detailed books for the patient (e.g. Frankel's "Geometry of Physics") and other books that are good, but often move too quickly for first-timers (e.g. Nakahara).

The book does assume that readers are comfortable with a theorem-proof style (though it is extremely casual here) and it assumes a strong linear algebra/abstract vector space background, but those who qualify will find themselves quickly learning about some rather advanced subjects (Lie algebra theory).

Finally, Lam makes sure to interject chapters that illustrate some applications of the math covered up to that point in the book. Chapters like these will keep physics students (like me) plugged in to the book.

Moonshine, the Monster, and Related Topics: Joint Research Conference on Moonshine, the Monster, and Related Topics June 18-23, 1994 Mount Holyoke College, ... Massachusetts (Contemporary Mathematics)

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Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society
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"One of the great legacies of the classification of the finite simple groups is the existence of the Monster $\ldots$ Work of Borcherds and Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman led to the notion of a vertex (operator) algebra, which was seen to be the same as the chiral algebras used by physicists in conformal field theory$\ldots$ The connections with physics have proven to be invaluable, and it seems likely that another branch of mathematics whose origins are eerily similar to those of moonshine---that is, elliptic cohomology---will turn out to be very relevant too. --- from the Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference held at Mount Holyoke College in June 1994. As perhaps the first conference proceedings devoted exclusively to the subject known as "Moonshine", this work contains something for many mathematicians and physicists.

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Results concerning the monster simple group and other simple groups.

Connections with elliptic cohomology.

Connections with 2-dimensional conformal field theory.

The role of operads.

Connections with modular functions.

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How do we survive?

Elusive

Visual structure in novel form

A Lovely Tale of Photography
Peter Nadas
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A Book of Memories

ASIN: 8090217168

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Fiction. Peter Nadas, born in 1942 in Budapest, is the author of A BOOK OF MEMORIES and THE END OF A FAMILY STORY, which have won him wide acclaim as the outstanding Hungarian writer of his time. A LOVELY TALE OF PHOTOGRAPHY is an hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanitorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than that framed by her camera.

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How do we survive?.......2005-05-05

There is a certain melody, or better yet, absence of it, that speaks to the reader as he starts reading this book. You can't point out what exactly that melody is, but your senses tell you that it deffinitely has to be pesent somewhere. And as you focus yourself at those voices lost in the past, pictures start to flicker in front of your eyes, and you feel like you're sitting in a sofa, and your grandmother is showing you an old familiy album.

You know what kind of albums are those. People you never met, on a murky background, with twisted smiles and years that separate you. They may be your relatives, and you feel some sort of connection or obligation towards them, but essentialy, you couldn't care less about them. But pages continu to flip themselves.

There are no sharp edges of objects in this book, everything is blurred, photographer sees in picture "and picture comes before words", and yet, as it happens with family album, once it is finished, you walk your own way, and forget about it, ready to return again, when someone pulls it out and starts talking...

Peculiar little book, but not of a "grandé" sort...

Elusive.......2000-06-13

"A Lovely Tale of Photography" is the third work of Peter Nadas to be translated into English, following the Hungarian writer's monumental "A Book of Memories" (1997) and "The End of a Family Story" (1998). One might be misled by the slimness of the current volume (120pp) into believing it to be his most accessible work; however, it is truly a complex piece that is the descendant of the previous two. The book is described as "an hallucinatory novella" and to the extent that we are presented with a plot we see the portrait of a female photographer as she suffers through an illness; her life appears to pass as a series of pictures - random images and people, sounds, colors, darkness and light. Nadas continues to confront of notions of time, place, and character, stripping these concepts down to their essences in order to explore them. Yet I would argue that this work more resembles a movie - not a silent movie, but a moving picture whose sound is turned down, such that we know that some element is missing from this world; we strain to hear it, but can only discern the screams and the cries as we watch the pictures fly past our eyes. This trick is successful for its limited purpose, unfortunately we are left yearning for more - we are only presented with hints of a love affair, of the woman's fears and her dreams and we suspect that the truth has somehow eluded us in the silence. Thus, I do not believe this to be Nadas' strongest work, but it is a worthy addition to his previous efforts and certainly valuable to any reader who wishes to join Nadas on his search for meaning.

Visual structure in novel form.......2000-06-10

This book is very well written in an innovative style - small sections of very visually detailed segments - amazing writing of the world as viewed thru a photographer's eyes. The only narrative dislocation this caused was that it took me some time to place the story in time sufficiently to give the action context and social context is essential to following the story. I enjoyed the book - will probably reread it - but at the end of the book, I still cared nothing about the characters - this may be intentional on the part of the author as it is consistent with the photographer's inability to deal with the world outside the photograph of it.

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