1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006465880403321

Autore

Adeniran, Tunde

Titolo

A developing country in the United Nations system [microforma] : a study of Nigeria's partecipation in the United Nations, 1960-1975 / Babatunde Olatu Adeniran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : University Microfilms Int., 1978

Descrizione fisica

bobina di microfilm (311 p.) ; 35 mm

Disciplina

966.9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Videoregistrazione

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000520670203316

Autore

SHERINGTON, Geoffrey

Titolo

Fairbridge : empire and child migration / Geoffrey Sherington and Chris Jeffery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Woburn press, copyr. 1998

ISBN

0-7130-4036-X

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 289 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Woburn education series

Altri autori (Persone)

JEFFERY, Chris

Disciplina

362.73

Soggetti

Fanciulli disadattati - Gran Bretagna - Colonie - Storia - Sec. 20

Collocazione

362.73 SHE 1 (ISP V 642)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456217703321

Titolo

Desiccation and survival in plants [[electronic resource] ] : drying without dying / / edited by M. Black and H.W. Pritchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub., c2002

ISBN

1-280-82923-0

9786610829231

0-85199-719-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackMichael

PritchardH. W

Disciplina

581.4

Soggetti

Plant-water relationships

Plants - Drought tolerance

Plants - Adaptation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Drying Without Dying; Part II Methodology; 2 Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress; 3 Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery; 4 Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues; Part III Biology of Dehydration; 5 Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development; 6 Pollen and Spores: Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi

7 Vegetative Tissues: Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules8 Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds; Part IV Mechanisms of Damage and Tolerance; 9 Desiccation Stress and Damage; 10 Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems; 11 Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems; 12 Rehydration of Dried Systems: Membranes and the Nuclear Genome; Part V Retrospect and Prospect; 13 Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect; Glossary; Taxonomic Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book is divided into three sections, dealing with: the technical background to desiccation tolerance studies; the frequency and levels of dehydration stress tolerance in biological systems; mechanisms of damage and tolerance.