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Cereal Crops: Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques provides the reader practical tools for understanding relationships and challenges of successful farming; improvements to genetic modifications; and environmentally sound methods of production of bulk and quality cereals including wheat, maize, rice, barley, and millets. It explores the trait mapping, cropping systems, genome engineering, and identification of specific germplasms needed for the more effective development of biotic and abiotic stress resistant cereals within the framework of ensuring future food supplies around the world. Features:Focuses on cropping systems, genetics and genome engineering for higher crop production at a global level.Features information on specific prebiotic formulas to ward off adverse effects of antibiotics.Covers mechanistic as well as practical approaches for enhancing crop production in a sustainable way.Includes further in-depth analysis of various topics following each chapter.This is a vital resource for researchers, crop biologists, and students working with crop production and climate changes that have a significant impact on crop production, spanning basic to advanced level discussions of plant breeding, molecular genetics, and agronomy. Covering mechanistic and practical approaches for enhancing crop production in a sustainable way, this text is beneficial to intensive farmers and stakeholders in the field of crop production.

One of the challenges facing the world is feeding the ever-increasing population, with food security being a growing 21st century problem. This stresses the need for coordinated international systems to prevent and mitigate food fraud in global food supply chains. Food fraud, which is usually financially motivated, has significant consequences including unfair competition, major damage to markets and organizations, loss of consumer confidence, and it raises food safety issues.A shift toward a more plant-based diet can be endorsed to promote sustainability but also to improve public health and minimize animal suffering. The aim of this book is to deal with issues related to authenticity and chemometrics of the most important food products of plant origin, such as cereals, nuts, legumes, table olives and olive oil, coffee, tea, fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, spices, mushrooms, beers and wines, and honey, using state-of-the-art analytical techniques and instrumentation coupled with available chemometric tools.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject World History - Antiquity, grade: A, University of Wroclaw, course: Classical History and Archaeology, language: Polish, abstract: [PL] Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy są współczesne pozostałości naziemnych konstrukcji arkadowych starożytnych akweduktów w mieście Rzym. Pod uwagę zostały wzięte akwedukty, które wybudowano w latach 312 p.n.e. – 226 n.e. Celem pracy jest przedstawienie stanu zachowania i zagospodarowania pozostałości naziemnych arkad, po których biegły akwedukty na terenie miasta Rzymu w zestawieniu z ich stanem pierwotnym w oparciu o opracowania oraz własne badania. Praca przedstawia charakterystykę wszystkich jedenastu głównych wodociągów miasta Rzymu z uwzględnieniem uproszczonej trasy ich przebiegu, jej długości i specyfiki, fundatorów, celu lub przyczyn powstania, ewentualnych remontów i modyfikacji oraz ilości dystrybuowanej wody i procentowego udziału beneficjentów. Informacje te stanowią podstawę do analizy współczesnych pozostałości akweduktów w granicach administracyjnych miasta Rzym wraz z dokładnym opisem trasy ich przebiegu uzupełnionym ikonografią współczesną i historyczną. [EN] This dissertation aims to present a short history of each of eleven aqueducts that fed the ancient (up to modern) city of Rome with attention to such detail as their course and its length, motive for construction, their founders, renovations or modifications and the volume of water delivered to the city, further redistributed to meet constantly increasing needs and serve specific purposes. The aqueducts depicted in this paper were built between 312 BC - 226 AD with contemporary remains of their aboveground arcade structures being the focus of attention of it.

Current Challenges and Management of Disease in the Elderly Population is a comprehensive insight into the diseases and their management in elderly population during ageing. The book provides information on the development in understanding, diagnosis and management of major diseases through biological and technological interventions. Non-communicable diseases currently infesting old age population will have a huge epidemiological burden on the health care system in near future. Middle- and high-income countries warrant sincere efforts to provide information on the current challenges and management of disease in elderly population in health care professionals and social organizations related to the health of society. The book is a holistic approach by international authors from different fields on major diseases, which are predominantly increasing at an alarming rate in old age population around the globe. The first chapter provides information on stem cells involved in the regulation of cell homeostasis by process of DNA-based methylation/demethylation and regulating gene expression involved in cell fate to undergo apoptosis. The second chapter emphasizes the immunological decline in innate and adaptive immunity in ageing cells, which leads to decreased activity of T-cell and T-regulatory cells. The third, fourth and fifth chapters deal with chronic diseases like Type 2 Diabetes mellitus based neuropathy, different bone diseases in old age and involvement of Vitamin D in women's bone health in elderly population. The problem of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus based neuropathy is the result of unattended or poor medical interventions, therefore emphasis on this problem and its prevention is dealt with in detail. Further disease like osteoporosis, Paget disease, and Arthritis, which are very common in old age population and deficiency of Vitamin D, calcium, phosphorous in elderly women after menopause, where estrogen based hormonal deabsorbtion of Vitamin D lead to poor bone health, is detailed from mechanism, diagnosis, current challenges and future perspective of preventions. Ageing eye problems and associated challenges are incorporated with in depth information on dry eyes and vitreous detachment, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, which leads to irreversible visual impairment or blindness, the details information on detection, treatment and prevention are discussed in Chapter 6. The task of detecting specific diseases is paramount for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease. Chapter 7 & 8 on biomarkers using omics technology and metalobomics provides complete information on the recent development in identification and analysis of metabolites and biomolecules using different technology platforms to detect the disease condition at an early stage. They also highlight challenges in the field that need to be addressed to overcome the problem of disease diagnosis for timely intervention. The majority of neurodegenerative disorders influencing the population above the age of 65 is mainly related to neurodegeneration and oxidative stress. Tthe last two chapters, 9 &10, of this book have tried to provide information related to mechanism of neurodegeneration in various neuronal disorders and the role of various plant flavanoids in prevention of disease onset, the effect on the choice of nutraceuticals and their role in brain heath and prevention from old age neuronal problems.