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A compilation of articles by prominent experts in their respective fields on compensation for and collaboration with indigenous people in regard to their knowledge and provision of rare plants which are used for some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine.
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Wiley
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2008-04-30
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Novartis Foundation Symposia
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Concern about the environmental consequences of the widespread use of pesticides has increased, and evidence of pesticide-resistant virus vectors have continued to emerge. This volume presents a timely survey of the mechanisms of plant resistance and examines current...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2008-04-30
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Novartis Foundation Symposia
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This work deals with basic plant physiology and cytology, and addresses the practical exploitation of plants, both as crops and as sources of useful compounds produced as secondary metabolites. Covers problems of commercial exploitation, socio-legal aspects of genetic...
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Wiley
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2008-04-30
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Novartis Foundation Symposia
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Physiology and Behaviour of Plants looks at plants and how they sense and respond to their environment. It takes the traditional plant physiology book into a new dimension by demonstrating how the biochemical observations underlie the behaviour of the plant. In many...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2008-04-30
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Evidence grows daily of the changing climate and its impact on plants and animals. Plant function is inextricably linked to climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. On the shortest and smallest scales, the climate affects the plant’s immediate environment...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
Collection :
Biological Sciences Series
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The cell cycle in plants consists of an ordered set of events, including DNA replication and mitosis, that culminates in cell division. As cell division is a fundamental part of a plant’s existence and the basis for tissue repair, development and growth, a full...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Regulation of transcription represents a major, controlling step in plant gene expression, as it determines the tissue-specific and developmental stage-specific activity of many genes. Changes in gene expression have been shown to underlie the responses to environmental...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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This book provides a broad overview of solute transport in plants. It first determines what solutes are present in plants and what roles they play. The physical bases of ion and water movement are considered. The volume then discusses the ways in which solutes are moved...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Living organisms are subject to fluctuating environmental conditions. Whereas most animals are able to move away from unfavourable conditions, plants are sessile and so must cope with whatever comes their way. Of all the environmental cues that challenge the developing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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The scientific and economic significance of plant senescence means that much effort has been made to understand the processes involved and to devise means of manipulating them agriculturally. During the past few years there has been considerable progress in this regard,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Cell separation is an important process that occurs throughout the life cycle of a plant. It enables the radicle to emerge from the germinating seed, vascular tissue to differentiate, sculpturing of leaves and flowers to take place, pollen to be shed from the mature...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Over the past decade, our understanding of plant adaptation to environmental stress has grown considerably. This book focuses on stress caused by the inanimate components of the environment associated with climatic, edaphic and physiographic factors that substantially...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Biological Sciences Series
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Gene flow is not unique to genetically modified (GM) crops, but the possibility of the spread of transgenic DNA to wild and domesticated relatives raises a new set of issues for scientists and policymakers to consider. Unfortunately, we are still too often unable to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Biological Sciences Series
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Since their discovery over 100 years ago, plasmodesmata have been the focus of intense investigation. Plasmodesmata are unique to plants and form an intercellular continuum for the transport of solutes, signals and ribonucleoprotein complexes. It is now clear that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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The formation, dispersal and germination of seeds are crucial stages in the life cycles of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants.The unique properties of seeds, particularly their tolerance to desiccation, their mobility, and their ability to schedule their germination to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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With the discovery of RNAi pathways and the histone code, epigenetics has become a popular and fast evolving research topic. Plant science has made a number of elementary contributions to this field, and the common elements of epigenetic systems have linked research...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
Collection :
Annual Plant Reviews
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Plant growth is regulated by developmental programmes that can be modified by environmental cues acting through endogenous signaling molecules including plant hormones. This volume provides an overview of the biosynthesis, catabolism, perception and signal...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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The proteome comprises all protein species resulting from gene expression in a cell, organelle, tissue or organism. By definition, proteomics aims to identify and characterise the expression pattern, cellular location, activity, regulation, post-translational...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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The flowering plants now dominate the terrestrial ecosystems of the planet, and there are good reasons for supposing that the flower itself has been a major contributing factor to the spread of the Angiosperms.The flowers of higher plants not only contain the organs of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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Our knowledge of the circadian clock in plants has advanced considerably in recent years and we now have a clearer view of the biochemical processes making up its mechanism. Recent work provides insight into the central role played by the circadian system in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Annual Plant Reviews
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