Plant biology

The double helix architecture of DNA was elucidated in 1953.

Genetic erosion, that is, the loss of native plant and genetic diversity has been exponential from the Mediterranean Basin through the Twentieth century.

Adverse environmental factors can impose stress on plants and influence the expression of the full genetic potential for growth and reproduction.

The `plant' is often the most neglected part of plant-based medicine.

Forage plant breeding has entered the genome era.

The main subject of this book is the interaction between diggings created by porcupines when consuming geophytes, and their influences on annual and perennial vegetation in a desert biome.

Desertification has occurred worldwide.

Bioactive Carbohydrate Polymers is probably the first book dealing with the latest in the field of polysaccharides and related products and their biological activities, especially the immunological effects.

Holism and reductionism are traditionally seen as incompatible views or approaches to nature.

Although the term redox covers an important number of chemical reactions, biochemists are more familiar with reactions involving the reactions mediated by electron transfer chains associated with respiration, the thiol-disulfide exchanges and the reactions occurring in the presence of free radicals.

Actin is an extremely abundant protein that comprises a dynamic polymeric network present in all eukaryotic cells, known as the actin cytoskeleton.

Advances in Rice Blast Research provides a complete overview of the research undertaken on the rice-blast pathosystem.

Plant secondary metabolism is an economically important source of fine chemicals, such as drugs, insecticides, dyes, flavours, and fragrances.

We are facing global issues concerning environmental pollution and shortages of food, feed, phytomass (plant biomass) and natural resources, which will become more serious in the forthcoming decades.

Climate variability has major impacts in many parts of the world, including Australia.

The coconut palm occupies a significant place in the world economy as an important subsistence crop in all the areas in which it is grown.

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The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Mongolia is an expansive land-locked country, tilted by tectonic forces to the North, that experiences extremes of continental climate.

Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems provides overviews of the current trends and concepts in plant production in closed or semi-closed environments.

Plant adaptation is a fundamental process in plant breeding.

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) has become important in rice farming systems because this process diminishes the need for expensive chemical fertilizers which have been associated with numerous health and environmental problems.

The family Trichodoridae was established by Thorne in 1935 but it remained of limited taxonomie interest until 1951 when Christie and Perry associated Trichodorus christie (now Paratrichodorus minor) with a "e;stubby root disease"e; that affected certain crops in Florida, USA and interest further increased from 1960 when P.

Induced or acquired resistance to disease in plants has been known for many years, but the phenomenon was studied in only a few laboratories until about a decade ago.

A collection of papers that comprehensively describe the major areas of research on lipid metabolism of plants.

Increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition and changes in the management of heathlands have caused a significant change in the species composition of the NW-European heathlands.

The series Tasks for Vegetation Science is devoted to a variety of research aspects in vegetation science, pure as wellas applied.

This book is an attempt to compile and integrate the information documented by many botanists, both Egyptians and others, about the vegetation of Egypt.

Research on the interaction between plants and microbes has attracted considerable attention in recent years.

The dynamic role of plant hormones in regulation of plant growth and development revealed by its control of rates of metabolic processes and various related enzymetic reactions at molecular and submolecular levels is now weil established.

For about 40 years 1 have been engaged in timberline research.

The past two decades have seen rapid advances in the technology used to produce pot plants.

The study of plant development in recent years has often been concerned with the effects of the environment and the possible involvement of growth substances.

Economic plants have been defined by SEPASAT as those plants that are utilised either directly or indirectly for the benefit of Man.

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual life?

There are many recent works on the topic of light and plant growth.

Aphids are the most important of the sap sucking insects, they are also major pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry.

Latest figures suggest that approximately 20% of the world's population of six billion is malnourished because of food shortages and inadequate distrib- ution systems.

Current phase-out schedules of the production and emission of CFC's indicate that chlorine loading in the stratosphere is not yet at its maximum.

For investigators engaged in the study of toxins generally, and host-specific toxins in particular, it is a rare treat to attend a meeting in which toxins involved in plant pathogenesis are emphasized.

In 1992 a Concerted Action Programme (CAP) was initiated by Peter Sijmons with the purpose of intensifying collaborations between 16 European laboratories working on plant-parasitic nematodes.