To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  Microbiology

Biochemistry of Microbial Degradation

Edited By: C Ratledge
584 pages
Biochemistry of Microbial Degradation
Click to have a closer look
  • Biochemistry of Microbial Degradation ISBN: 9780792322733 Hardback Dec 1993 Out of stock with supplier: order now to get this when available
    £85.99
    #30081
Price: £85.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

This work brings together a number of accounts of the mechanisms whereby microorganisms are able to degrade a wide variety of compounds. These compounds range from petroleum-derived materials, which continue to predominate in questions of environmental contamination and pollution, to the degradation of the major natural materials that microorganisms may encounter in all types of habitat. Both aerobic and anaerobic modes of attack are covered. The emphasis in all the chapters is upon the underlying biochemical pathways that microorganisms use: differences between bacteria, yeasts and moulds are highlighted whenever opportune and uses of microbial consortia for attack on the most recalcitrant molecules is also documented. Activity of microorganisms in the soil, groundwater and marine environments are all considered. The book should be of interest to all whose work brings them into contact with the results of microbial degradations. The consequences of microbial degradations may be beneficial as well as deleterious: an advantage with some compounds, a decided disadvantage with others. The basis by which microorganisms achieve these attacks then provides the vital knowledge that will accelerate the former and, hopefully, retard the latter. The pathways of microbial degradations of all major classes of compounds are covered in a single volume. The diversity of microbial activities are clearly described and current advances in the applications of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, enzyme chemistry and engineering feature in almost every chapter.

Contents

I. Structures of extracellular amphiphiles: A. Bioemulsifiers. B. Structures of biosurfactants. 1. Clycolipids. 2. Acylpoyols. 3. Lipopeptides. II. Biosynthetic routes to biosurfactants: A. Glycolipids. B. Acylpolyols. C. Lipopeptides. III. Microbial growth and kinetics of biosurfactant formation: A. Models of alkane uptake. B. Growth and biosurfactant production. IV. Biosurfactants in natural habitats.

Customer Reviews

Edited By: C Ratledge
584 pages
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides