Product Description: Understanding the origin of fecal pollution is essential in assessing potential health risks as well as for determining the actions necessary to remediate the quality of waters contaminated by fecal matter. As a result, microbial source tracking (MST) has emerged as a field that has evolved and diversified rapidly since the first approaches were described only a decade ago...read more

Product Description: Explains why biotechnology is a relevant and volatile issues. Begins with a history of biotechnology and its effect on agriculture, medicine, and the environment. Equal space is devoted to discussing the efforts of human-rights advocates, animal-rights advocates, and environmentalists to create definitive governmental regulations for this budding industry...read more

Product Description: This volume provides an overview of the current stature of biotechnology. It focuses on both agronomically significant crops as well as some forestry applications. With the rapid developments in modern biotechnology, the text combines recent research with some of the more traditional approaches to this field of study...read more