Blakeslee: the Genus Datura
Author: Amos Geer Avery
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 344
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Blakeslee
Author: Amos G. Avery
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 289
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume is an account of the broad program of genetic investigations on the genus Datura carried on by A. F. blakeslee and his associates over period of more than forty years. The significance of that program lies not only in the contributions it made to our Knowledge of heredity but in its demostration of the fruitful results that can be obtained by studying the genetics of a single organism from many diferent points of view where each supplements the rest. No other organism, not even Drosophila, has involved so many aspects of biology in its genetic investigation as has Datura. Not only has its genetics, in the narrower sense, been examined, but is cytology, morphology, anatomy, physiology, embryology, geographical distribution, and evolutionary history have contributed to an understanding of its genetic constitution and behavior.
Perspectives on Genetics
Author: James Franklin Crow
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780299166045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than ten years, the distinguished geneticists James F. Crow and William F. Dove have edited the popular "Perspectives" column in Genetics, the journal of the Genetics Society of America. This book, Perspectives on Genetics, collects more than 100 of these essays, which cumulatively are a history of modern genetics research and its continuing evolution.
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
Author: Christian Rätsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005-04-25
Total Pages: 3143
ISBN-13: 1594776628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants • Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances • Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality • Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrations In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful plants--those known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness--have traditionally been regarded as sacred. In The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Christian Rätsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, and preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants. He discusses their ritual and medicinal usage, cultural artifacts made from these plants, and works of art that either represent or have been inspired by them. The author begins with 168 of the most well-known psychoactives--such as cannabis, datura, and papaver--then presents 133 lesser known substances as well as additional plants known as “legal highs,” plants known only from mythological contexts and literature, and plant products that include substances such as ayahuasca, incense, and soma. The text is lavishly illustrated with 797 color photographs--many of which are from the author’s extensive fieldwork around the world--showing the people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world’s sacred psychoactives.
Hallucinogens
Author: Richard R. Laing
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2003-04-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780124339514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHallucinogens: A Forensic Drug Handbook is a comprehensive reference for everyone involved in the identification, investigation, and forensic analysis of hallucinogenic drugs. The text begins with a review of the history of these drugs and their abuse, and then takes an in-depth look at the many different types of hallucinogens, their chemical make-up, how they affect users, how they are manufactured and distributed, and how they can be detected and analyzed. Hallucinogens covers the most commonly abused drugs such as LSD, MDMA ("Ecstasy"), and PCP ("Angel Dust"), as well as many lesser-known chemical substances that cause similar effects. Chapters have been contributed by leading analysts and investigators around the world, and are highlighted with numerous illustrations. This unique handbook will serve is a cross-disciplinary source of information for forensic toxicologists, law enforcement officers, and others involved in the fight against drugs. * Brings together comprehensive information on hallucinogenic drugs in one convenient source * Covers everything from abuse of these drugs to pharmacology, effects, forms, manufacturing methods, distribution, and forensic analysis * Contains numerous illustrations, chemical structures, and analytic spectra for each drug * Includes contributions from many of the world's leading investigators and analysts
Cytogenetics Of Aneuploids
Author: Gurdev Khush
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0323156290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCytogenetics of Aneuploids deals with the cytogenetic aspects of aneuploidy in plants, emphasizing the trisomics, monosomics, and nullisomics and cytogenetics of substitution lines as well as alien additions and substitutions. An account of aneuploidy in animals and man is also given. This volume is organized into 12 chapters and begins with an overview of terminology and chromosomal formulas, along with a brief history of the cytogenetics of aneuploids as a field of enquiry. The next chapters review the entire literature on trisomics, their sources, cytology, transmission rates, genetics, morphology, anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry. The discussion then shifts to monosomics and nullisomics, including their sources and cytology as well as breeding behavior, morphology, and genetic studies. Other uses of monosomics and nullisomics are considered. The following chapters deal with intervarietal substitutions and alien additions and substitutions, emphasizing different methods of producing substitution lines and their utility in genetic analysis and practical plant breeding programs. The book concludes by describing special features of aneuploidy in animals and highlighting specific cases of aneuploidy in the animal kingdom. This book will be of interest to plant breeders and geneticists.
Wound Healing
Author: Vlad Alexandrescu
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9535126784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutstanding scientific advances over the last decades unceasingly reveal real complexity of wound-healing process, astonishing in its staged progression, as life is unfolding itself. This natural course of tissue repair seems to bear thousands of overlapping molecular and macroscopic processes that nowadays only start to unfold to our knowledge. The present volume collecting recent scientific references proposes to readers a two-folded audacious goal. First, an updated design of intimate cellular mechanisms is entailed in tissue regeneration that emanates from the first section of the book. Next, a multidisciplinary therapeutic perspective that focuses on macroscopic healing throughout the second part of this work adds clinically integrated observation. Practical diagnostic and treatment information is appended in each chapter that may equally help experienced clinicians or dedicated students and researchers in broadening essential breaking points of their work. It is the wish of all multidisciplinary experts who gather prominent author's panel of this volume to incorporate latest medical reports and compel limits of current understanding for better tissue regeneration, limb salvage, and improved quality of life of our patients.
Brill's Companion to Aphrodite
Author: Amy C. Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9047444507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite’s Identity’; ‘Aphrodite's Companions and Relations’; ‘The Spread of Aphrodite’s Cults’ and ‘The Reception of the Goddess.’ Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods—from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess
Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition
Author: Ram J. Singh
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-11-18
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1315356996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCytogenetics plays an important role in understanding the chromosomal and genetic architecture of plant species. Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition follows the tradition of its predecessors presenting theoretical and practical aspects of plant cytogenetics. Chapters describe correct handling of plant chromosomes, methods in plant cytogenetics, cell division, reproduction methods, chromosome nomenclature, karyotype analysis, chromosomal aberrations, genome analysis, transgenic crops, and cytogenetics in plant breeding. This new edition begins with a brief introduction on the historical aspect of cytogenetics and flows directly into handling of plant chromosomes by classical and modern cytological techniques, classical Mendelian Genetics, brief description of cell division, and chromosome identification by karyotype analysis. The comprehension of cytogenetics is incomplete without information on the role of aneuploidy in associating a gene on a particular chromosome, and the book covers these methodologies as a primary topic. Covering classical to modern cytogenetics, the book presents to the reader the crucial role of cytogenetics in improving crops.
Cytogenetics
Author: P. K. Gupta
Publisher: Rastogi Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9788171337378
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