Crops are steadily and increasingly regarded as human health inducers, thus revolutionizing their roles in human ecology, especially form biotechnological and medicinal perspectives. As such, more emphasis is placed on links between plant chemicals with post-modern human and animal health. Such therapeutics include but are not limited to pharmaceuticals, multi-constituent botanical drugs, dietary supplements, functional foods and plant-derived recombinant proteins and vaccines. These compounds could complement conventional pharmaceuticals for cure, prognosis and diagnosis of diseases, while...

Challenges in science and industry usually arise from over-complex systems analyses. Simple and feasible on-farm approaches of barley use will enable concurrent improvements in rumen microbial efficiency and yield, post-rumen starch and protein assimilation, milk and meat outputs, animal immune function, and adequately persistent economic life. Optimizing barley grain value for ruminants has been a major global and environmental challenge. Mismanagement in feeding and processing barley grain for high-producing dairy and beef cattle can easily make a fiasco from the pearl of cereals. With its...

Aging is considered an increasing apprehension for healthful postmodern life. Scientific data suggest some gain in the number of healthy years but also a greater increase in compromised physical, mental, and social functions. Insightful knowledge on mental disorders of aging is greatly inadequate, thus needing novel innovative hypotheses and future experiments. This book is a real-life presentation of science of aging, especially for the public. It includes 7 chapters and briefly addresses how aging phenomenon is related to cell biology, cell biochemistry, systemic endocrinology, and...