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Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Feasibilities for flower colour modification

By: T. Mulder-Krieger,Robert Verpoorte

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Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Feasibilities for flower colour modification

By: T. Mulder-Krieger,Robert Verpoorte

To date, several possibilities exist to change the genetics of plants including classical breeding and modern molecular biological approaches such as recombinant DNA techniques and plant trans formation methods. The aim of this publication is to review the feasibilities, offered by the current technologies, to modify flower colours. Due to the great importance of anthocyanins as flower pigments, the main part of this study deals with this class of flavonoids responsible for most red-, purple- and blue colours. Being electron deficient, the flavylium nucleus of the anthocyanins is highly reactive and undergoes - dependent upon pH - readily structural transformations which are coupled with colour changes. A number of mechanisms that stabilizes the coloured - at expense of the colourless structures in plants are described, including acylation, co pigmentation and metal complex formation. Because no plant species possesses the genetic capacity for producing varieties in the full spectrum of colours, man has looked for methods to change the genetic properties of plants. In recent years, conventional flower breeding is more and more being supplemented by genetic engineering techniques. This technology offers the possibility to insert specific genes into the cell genome and to transfer genes most efficiently between different organisms. The common flower pigments, the anthocyanins, have been studied for many years and represent now the best understood group of secondary plant metabolites with respect to (bio)chemistry and genetics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401109060

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9789401109062

Practical Capillary Electrophoresis

By: Robert Weinberger

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Practical Capillary Electrophoresis

By: Robert Weinberger

In the 1980s, capillary electrophoresis (CE) joined high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as the most powerful separation technique available to analytical chemists and biochemists. Published research using CE grew from 48 papers in the year of commercial introduction (1988) to 1200 in 1997. While only a dozen major pharmaceutical and biotech companies have reduced CE to routine practice, the applications market is showing real or potential growth in key areas, particularly in the DNA marketplace for genomic mapping and forensic identification. For drug development involving small molecules (including chiral separations), one CE instrument can replace 10 liquid chromatographs in terms of speed of analysis. CE also uses aqueous rather than organic solvents and is thus environmentally friendlier than HPLC. The second edition of Practical Capillary Electrophoresis has been extensively reorganized and rewritten to reflect modern usage in the field, with an emphasis on commercially available apparatus and reagents. This authoritative and very comprehensible treatment builds on the author's extensive experience as an instructor of short courses for the American Chemical Society and for industry. - Illustrated with detailed diagrams of electrophoretic phenomena - Offers step-by-step methods development schemes - Presents techniques for developing quantitative, robust, and precise methods - Includes an extensive troubleshooting guide - Updates and greatly expands on the first edition-more than 50% of the text is new - Written by an internationally recognized scientist who is an instructor for American Chemical Society short courses on HPCE

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425

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Elsevier

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ISBN 10

0080539343

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9780080539348

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

By: Utkan Demirci,Robert Langer

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Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

By: Utkan Demirci,Robert Langer

The field of microfluidics has in the last decade permeated many disciplines, from physics to biology and chemistry, and from bioengineering to medical research. One of the most important applications of lab-on-a-chip devices in medicine and related disciplines is disease diagnostics, which involves steps from biological sample/analyte loading to storage, detection, and analysis. The chapters collected in this book detail recent advances in these processes using microfluidic devices and systems. The reviews of portable devices for diagnostic purposes are likely to evoke interest and raise new research questions in interdisciplinary fields (e.g., efficient MEMS/microfluidic engineering driven by biological and medical applications).The variety of the selected topics (general relevance of microfluidics in medical and bioengineering research, fabrication, advances in on-chip sample detection and analysis, and specific disease models) ensures that each of them can be viewed in the larger context of microfluidic-mediated diagnostics.

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495

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World Scientific

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9814405523

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9789814405522

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation & Physical Properties

Aromatic Hydroxyketones from Butanone (C4) to Dotriacontanone (C32)

By: Robert Martin,Jean-Pierre Buisson

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Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation & Physical Properties

Aromatic Hydroxyketones from Butanone (C4) to Dotriacontanone (C32)

By: Robert Martin,Jean-Pierre Buisson

An important resource for the synthesis of intermediates of specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Aromatic Hydroxyketones from Butanone to Dotriacontanone provides the reader with exhaustive information covering structure, preparation, physicochemical characteristics, as well as a related bibliography. The handbook is presented in dictionary style, with a logical classification of the ketones, making the information easily available for consultation. The book is aimed at those working in research, development and production applications in various industries (chemistry, pharmacy, cosmetics, paints and perfumes).

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1456

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Springer

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ISBN 10

3319141856

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9783319141855

The Ethnobotany of Eden

Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative

By: Robert A. Voeks

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The Ethnobotany of Eden

Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative

By: Robert A. Voeks

In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these medicinal treasures before they succumb to the corrosive forces of the modern world. A compelling biocultural story, certainly, and a popular perspective on the lands and peoples of equatorial latitudes—but true? Only in part. In The Ethnobotany of Eden, geographer Robert A. Voeks unravels the long lianas of history and occasional strands of truth that gave rise to this irresistible jungle medicine narrative. By exploring the interconnected worlds of anthropology, botany, and geography, Voeks shows that well-intentioned scientists and environmentalists originally crafted the jungle narrative with the primary goal of saving the world’s tropical rainforests from destruction. It was a strategy deployed to address a pressing environmental problem, one that appeared at a propitious point in history just as the Western world was taking a more globalized view of environmental issues. And yet, although supported by science and its practitioners, the story was also underpinned by a persuasive mix of myth, sentimentality, and nostalgia for a long-lost tropical Eden. Resurrecting the fascinating history of plant prospecting in the tropics, from the colonial era to the present day, The Ethnobotany of Eden rewrites with modern science the degradation narrative we’ve built up around tropical forests, revealing the entangled origins of our fables of forest cures.

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University of Chicago Press

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022654785X

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9780226547855

The Earliest Europeans

A Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

By: Robert Hosfield

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The Earliest Europeans

A Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

By: Robert Hosfield

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources. Current research has provided increasingly robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records, but there are ongoing uncertainties as to both the earliest Europeans’ specific survival strategies and behaviours, and the character of their dispersals into Europe. In short, how sustained and ‘successful’ were the individual phases of European occupation by Lower Palaeolithic hominins and what sorts of ‘human’ where they? Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours. Text boxes provide the background on key issues, and the book draws on a range of supporting evidence including technology (e.g. the nature of Lower Palaeolithic stone tools; the evidence for organic tools), hominin life history (e.g. the length of infant dependency; the nature of ‘parenting’; the implications of different mating models; the Social Brain Hypothesis), cognitive studies (e.g. brain scanning research into possible planning capabilities) and potential bias in the archaeological record (e.g. in terms of what is and isn’t preserved). By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to out forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like.

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385

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Oxbow Books

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1785707647

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9781785707643

Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry

By: Robert K. Boyd,Cecilia Basic,Robert A. Bethem

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Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry

By: Robert K. Boyd,Cecilia Basic,Robert A. Bethem

This book provides a serious introduction to the subject of mass spectrometry, providing the reader with the tools and information to be well prepared to perform such demanding work in a real-life laboratory. This essential tool bridges several subjects and many disciplines including pharmaceutical, environmental and biomedical analysis that are utilizing mass spectrometry: Covers all aspects of the use of mass spectrometry for quantitation purposes Written in textbook style to facilitate understanding of this topic Presents fundamentals and real-world examples in a ‘learning-though-doing’ style

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119964393

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9781119964391

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties

Vol.1: Hydroxybenzophenones Vol.2: Hydroxyacetophenones I Vol.3: Hydroxyacetophenones II Vol.4: Hydroxypropiophenones, Hydroxyisobutyrophenones, Hydroxypivalophenones and Derivatives

By: Robert Martin

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Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties

Vol.1: Hydroxybenzophenones Vol.2: Hydroxyacetophenones I Vol.3: Hydroxyacetophenones II Vol.4: Hydroxypropiophenones, Hydroxyisobutyrophenones, Hydroxypivalophenones and Derivatives

By: Robert Martin

In four volumes, Aromatic Hydroxyketones provides detailed information on the physical properties and syntheses of 6,000 hydroxyketones. Each entry includes basic identification information, including the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number, molecule name, molecular formula, and molecular weight. This resource provides a powerful tool for the synthesis of intermediates of specialty polymers, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402097875

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9781402097874

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science (Print)

By: Robert M. Goodman

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Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science (Print)

By: Robert M. Goodman

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science and agriculture. From the fundamentals of plant growth and reproduction to developments in agronomy and agricultural science, the encyclopedia's authoritative content nurtures communication between these academically distinct yet intrinsically related fields-offering a spread of clear, descriptive, and concise entries to optimally serve scientists, agriculturalists, policy makers, students, and the general public.

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1000031586

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9781000031584

Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Feasibilities for flower colour modification

By: T. Mulder-Krieger,Robert Verpoorte

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Feasibilities for flower colour modification

By: T. Mulder-Krieger,Robert Verpoorte

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Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Practical Capillary Electrophoresis

Practical Capillary Electrophoresis

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation & Physical Properties

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation & Physical Properties

The Ethnobotany of Eden

The Ethnobotany of Eden

The Earliest Europeans

The Earliest Europeans

Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry

Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties

Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science (Print)

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science (Print)

Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

Anthocyanins as Flower Pigments

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