Le succïŽs des prïŽcïŽdentes ïŽditions et l'ïŽvolution de la discipline justifient pleinement cette nouvelle ïŽdition, entiïŽrement mise ïŽ jour. Plus qu'une simple rïŽactualisation, il s'agit d'une refonte en profondeur de l'ouvrage prenant en compte les nouvelles avan…
This book describes the multitude of interactions between plant, soil, and micro-organisms. It emphasizes on how growth and development in plants, starting from seed germination, is heavily influenced by the soil type. It describes the interactions established by plants with soi…
In the 1890s, the Pasteur Institute established a network of laboratories that stretched across France's empire, from Indochina to West Africa. Quickly, researchers at these laboratories became central to France's colonial project, helping officials monopolize industries, develo…
Pasteur's Empire shows how the scientific prestige of the Pasteur Institute came to depend on its colonial laboratories, and how, conversely, the institutes themselves became central to colonial politics. This book argues that decisions as small as the isolation of a particular …
Why did 'microbe hunters' at the Pasteur Institute become the most important health experts in the French empire in the early twentieth century? 'Pasteur's Empire' illustrates how French microbiologists transformed life in the colonies in the name of humanitarian public health, …
This volume provides detailed discussion of a variety of important techniques that researchers use to study fungal molecular biology and pathogenesis. Written for the Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the nec…
This practical book provides an updated resource for the identification of bacteria found in animals inhabiting the aquatic environment, illustrated with colour photos. It contains expanded biochemical identification tables to include newly identified pathogenic and saprophytic …
This volume is designed to be a resource of proven techniques and approaches for probing the activities of bacterial, eukaryotic, and archaeal RNA polymerases. This book features a collection of in vitro and in vivo technologies that will permit researchers to purify and probe t…
Medical historian, medical researcher, and clinician Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy's archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities at the University of Michigan and other key medical schools durin…
