Hock and Erich (2005) - Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition

Title : Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition
Editors : Bertold Hock and Erich F. Elstner
Publisher : Marcel Dekker, New York
Pages : 664 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 0929-1873

Description :

In order to keep track of all the compounds and pathogens affecting plant metabolism and development, you would need to spend all your waking hours combing periodicals and the Internet in dozens of languages, as new toxins via pollutants and migratory or mutant pathogens are being discovered every day.
Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition starts with a basic overview of the plant as a complex living organism. The first chapters introduce plant structure and organization. Starting with the cell as the smallest elementary unit, the emphasis is on plant-specific features with respect to their susceptibility to environmental contaminants.
Hock and Elstner, who between them have published over 500 original papers on plants and plant disease, called upon experts from across the world to contribute to this essential text. The book analyzes processes central to plant metabolism, including uptake, distribution, and secretion of toxic material, and focuses on the recognition and prevention of damage associated with environmental pollutants. It studies diseases caused by viruses, subviral organisms, phytoplasmas, fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Learn about Pathology in Plants as an Integral Interconnected Facet of their Environment
The text is designed to enable you to classify and target specific forms of plant damage. Equally important, it never loses sight of the princple that plants are not isolated organisms, but rather exist as participants in complex environments, which must be taken into account when studying the delivery and impact of toxins.
Supplying more than 1500 current references, Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition is required reading for all plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; botanists; agronomists; agriculturists; horticulturists; biochemists; foresters; plant growers; and upper level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Shoji et al. (1993) - Volcanic Ash Soils - Genesis, Properties and Utilization

Title : Volcanic Ash Soils: Genesis, Properties and Utilization (Developments in Soil Science 21)
Authors : Sadao Shoji, Masami Nanzyo, and R.A Dahlgren
Publisher : Elsevier Science Ltd (1 June 1994)
Pages : 313 pages
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0444897992
ISBN-13 : 978-0444897992

Description
Volcanic eruptions are generally viewed as agents of destruction, yet they provide the parent materials from which some of the most productive soils in the world are formed. The high productivity results from a combination of unique physical, chemical and mineralogical properties. The importance and uniqueness of volcanic ash soils are exemplified by the recent establishment of the Andisol soil order in Soil Taxonomy. This book provides the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of volcanic ash soils in a single volume. It contains in-depth coverage of important topics including terminology, morphology, genesis, classification, mineralogy, chemistry, physical properties, productivity and utilization. A wealth of data (37 tables, 81 figures, and Appendix) mainly from the Tohoku University Andisol Data Base is used to illustrate major concepts. Twelve color plates provide a valuable visual-aid and complement the text description of the world-wide distribution for volcanic ash soils. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for soil scientists, plant scientists, ecologists and geochemists interested in biogeochemical processes occurring in soils derived form volcanic ejecta.

Ashraf et al. (2009) - Salinity and Water Stress - Improving Crop Efficiency

Title : Salinity and Water Stress - Improving Crop Efficiency
Series: Tasks for Vegetation Science, Vol. 44
Editor : Ashraf, M., Ozturk, M., Athar, Habib-ur-Rehman (Eds.)
Publisher : Springer (2009)
Pages : 232 pages
Language : English
ISBN 978-1-4020-9064-6 
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9065-3

Description
Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.
Presenting recent research findings on salt stress, water stress and stress-adapted plants, this book offers insights into new strategies for increasing the efficiency of crops under stressful environments. The strategies are based on conventional breeding and advanced molecular techniques used by plant physiologists, and are discussed using specific case studies to illustrate their potential. The book emphasizes the effects of environmental factors on specific stages of plant development, and discusses the role of plant growth regulators, nutrients, osmoprotectants and antioxidants in counteracting their adverse affects.
Synthesising updated information on mechansisms of stress tolerance at cell, tissue and whole-plant level, this book provides a useful reference text for post graduate students and researchers involved in the fields of stress physiology and plant physiology in general, with additional readership amongst researchers in horticulture, agronomy, crop science, conservation, environmental management and ecological restoration.

Lorenzo (2011) - Wood : Types, Properties, and Uses

Title : Wood : Types, Properties, and Uses
Editor : Lorenzo F. Botannini
Publisher : Nova Science Pub. Inc. (March 30, 2011)
Pages : 257 pages
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1616688378
ISBN-13 : 978-1616688370

Description :
Wood is the most accessible and renewable material used by humankind during its history. Today, the consumption of wood exceeds all other known materials. The industry of various products made of wood grows continuously.
This book reviews research on hydrothermal treatment and modification of wood in the drying and impregnation process; the decomposition of coarse woody debris as an important component of the carbon cycle and biodivesity of forest ecosystems; and the potential of agroforestry as a carbon sequestration strategy.
Also discussed is the importance of fossil woods, types of preservation, and their significance in reconstructing the palaeo-climatology and paleo-environment of a region as well as the limitation in identifying the fossil woods.

Colin and Quevauviller (1998) - Monitoring of Water Quality

Title : Monitoring of Water Quality : The Contribution of Advanced Technologies
Editors : Colin and Quevauviller 
Publisher : Elsevier (21 July 2008)
Pages : 283 pages 
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0080433405
ISBN-13 : 9780080433400

Description :
For utilities, equipment manufacturers concerned with water quality, environmental regulators, departments of civil engineering, environmental engineers, environmental chemists and ecologists.

Meunier (2005) - Clays

Title : Clays
Author : Alan Meunier
Publisher : Springer; 2005 Edition (January 13, 2005
Pages : 477 pages
Language : English
ISBN-10: 3540216677
ISBN-13: 978-3540216674 

Description :
This monograph presents the fundamentals of the mineralogy and geology of clays. The chemical or isotopic composition and the crystalline structure of clays is based on some relatively simple laws. Abundant illustrations help to understand the subject and can be used in courses. The organization of the book follows a logical structure. From the representation of the structure of minerals, the determination of their crystalline state by using X-ray diffractometer measurements (and other techniques) the thermodynamic and kinematic conditions of their formation is reconstructed. Then the genesis and alteration of the clays at their natural occurrences is discussed. In the last chapter it is stressed that clay minerals can form in variety of different environments: meteorites, lavas, subduction zones for example. The book is aimed for graduate students and scientists (geologists, geographers, engineers, environmental and soil scientists) who want to get a comprehensive introduction in the topic.

Mahy dan Marc (2010) - Desk Encyclopedia of General Virology

Title : Desk Encyclopedia of General Virology

Editors : Marc H.V. van Regenmortel and Brian W.J. Mahy
Publisher : Academic Press; 1 edition (21 May 2010)
Pages : 663 Pages
Language : English
ISBN-10: 0123751462
ISBN-13: 978-0123751461 

Description :

This volume, derived from Encyclopedia of Virology, provides an overview of the development of virology during the last ten years. Entries detail the nature, origin, phylogeny and evolution of viruses. It then moves into a summary of our understanding of the structure and assembly of virus particles and describes how this knowledge was obtained. Genetic material of viruses and the different mechanisms used by viruses to infect and replicate in their host cells are highlighted. The volume is rounded out with an overview of some major groups of viruses with particular attention being given to our current knowledge of their molecular biology.

The most comprehensive single-volume source providing an overview of virology to non-specialists

Bridges the gap between basic undergraduate texts and specialized reviews

Concise and general overviews of important topics within the field will help when preparing for lectures, writing reports, or drafting grant applications

Peng and Jincai (2007) - Engineering Geology for Underground Rocks

Title : Engineering Geology for Underground Rocks
Author : Suping Peng and Jincai Zhang
Publisher : Springer; 2007 edition (July 25, 2007)
Pages : 336 Pages
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 3540732942
ISBN-13 : 978-3540732945

Description :
Engineering geology for underground rocks is a sub-discipline of engineering geology for describing and solving geological engineering problems encountered in underground mining, petroleum and civil engineering. It covers rock mechanics for underground rocks, rock hydraulics, wellbore mechanics, mine geology and mine hydrogeology. This book clearly and systematically explains underground engineering geology principles, methods, theories and case studies, depicts engineering problems in underground rock engineering and how to study and solve them. It specially emphasizes mechanical and hydraulic couplings in rock engineering for wellbore stability, mining near aquifers and other underground structures where inflow is a problem. Using the methods and models given in this book, the reader is able to analyse underground geological engineering problems and also for the design of underground structures. Professionals and students in engineering geology, geological, mining, petroleum, civil engineering, rock mechanics, and mine geology will find this an essential reference.

Ronald and Don Crawford (1996) - Bioremediation - Principles and Applications

Title : Bioremediation - Principles and Applications
Editors : Ronald L. Crawford and Don L. Crawford 
Series : Biotechnology Research Series ; 6
Series Editor: James Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996
Pages : 406 pages
Language : English
ISBN 10 : 0521470412
ISBN 13 : 9780521470414

Description
Industrial and agricultural activity throughout this century has led to considerable contamination of soil and groundwater resources by hazardous chemicals. The technique of bioremediation uses living organisms--usually bacteria and fungi--to remove pollutants from soil and water with minimal disturbance to these environments. This approach, which is potentially more cost-effective than traditional techniques such as incineration of soils and carbon filtration of water, requires an understanding of how organisms transform chemicals, how they survive in polluted environments, and how they can be used in the field. This book examines these issues for many of the most serious and common environmental contaminants, presenting the most recent position on the application of bioremediation to polluted soil and water.

Gullan dan Cranston (2010) - The Insects - An Outline of Entomology - 4th Edition

Title : The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th Edition
Author : Penny J. Gullan and Peter S. Cranston  
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell (January 2010)
Pages : 590 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 978-1-4443-3036-6

Description
This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating and comprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals that represent over half of the planet's biological diversity. In this new fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features of insect structure, function, behavior, ecology and classification, placed within the latest ideas on insect evolution. Much of the book is organised around major biological themes - living on the ground, in water, on plants, in colonies, and as predators, parasites/parasitoids and prey. A strong evolutionary theme is maintained throughout. The ever-growing economic importance of insects is emphasized in new boxes on insect pests, and in chapters on medical and veterinary entomology, and pest management. Updated 'taxoboxes' provide concise information on all aspects of each of the 27 major groupings (orders) of insects.