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This book provides comprehensive, current scientific and applied practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest that is used to protect crops from soil-borne diseases, abiotic stress and to enhance growth/yield. Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock/scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting-mediated crop improvement. In this book the authors attend to this need and explain the reasons for, and methods and applications of, grafting. Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices covers: · rootstock breeding, signalling, and physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in grafting; · beneficial effects of grafting including reducing disease damage and abiotic stress; · side effects relating to the impact of grafting on fruit quality; and · practical applications and speciality crops. Including high-quality colour images and written by an international team of expert authors, this book provides up-to-date scientific data and is also concerned with translating science to the field. It is an essential resource for researchers, advanced technicians, practitioners and extension workers. ; This book provides comprehensive and current scientific and practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest as an alternative to the use of fumigants to protect crops from soil-borne diseases. ; 1: Introduction to vegetable grafting1.1: Importance and use of vegetable grafting1.2: The process of vegetable grafting 1.3: Problems associated with vegetable grafting1.4: Conclusions2: Genetic resources for rootstock breeding2.1: Genetic diversity2.2: Genebank collections 2.3: Current usage of genetic material in rootstocks2.4: Germplasm collection of other plant families2.5: Concluding remarks3: Rootstock breeding: current practices and future technologies3.1: Introduction3.2: Stacking traits: meiosis or grafting or both?3.3: Developing stable, core collections of germplasm for breeding3.4: Deploying genetic diversity for rootstocks3.5: Grafting as a tool for genetic hybridisation and chimera production3.6: Selection of improved rootstocks3.7: Transgenic rootstocks3.8: Rootstock registration and commercialization4: Rootstock-scion signalling: key factors mediating scion performance 4.1: Introduction4.2: Current knowledge of ionic and chemical signalling between rootstock and scion4.3: Conclusions5: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying graft compatibility5.1: Introduction5.2: Anatomical and physiological steps during graft union development5.3: Role of secondary metabolites at the interface in graft incompatibility5.4: Cell-to-cell communication between graft partners5.5: Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in graft union formation and compatibility.5.6: Methods for examining graft union development and compatibility5.7: Conclusions and future perspectives6: Grafting as agro-technology for reducing disease damage6.1: Introduction6.2: The first step: Managing diseases in the nursery 6.3: Disease spread from the nursery to the field, the example of powdery mildew of watermelons6.4: Intra- and interspecific grafting and their relations to diseases6.5: Biotic or abiotic stress? Different responses of grafted plants to environmental conditions, the case of "physiological wilt", and germplasm selection for rational breeding6.6: Grafted plants' response to nematodes6.7: Commercial rootstocks and unknown genetics6.8: Different mechanisms involved in disease resistance induced by grafting6.9: Conclusions7: Grafting as a tool to tolerate abiotic stress7.1: Introduction7.2: Temperature stress7.3: Salinity stress7.4: Nutrient stress7.5: Stress induced by heavy metals and metalloids7.6: Stress by adverse soil pH7.7: Drought and flood stress7.8: Conclusions8: Quality of grafted vegetables8.1: What is quality?8.2: Rootstock effects on fruit quality8.3: Effects of grafting on ripening and postharvest behaviour 8.4: Bio-physiological processes affecting fruit quality8.5: Conclusion and perspectives9: Practical applications and speciality crops9.1: Establishment of grafted transplant under Mediterranean climate conditions9.2: Recommendations for the use of grafted plants in greenhouses. The case of the Netherlands9.3: Role of grafting in speciality crops9.4: Conclusions and future perspective of vegetable grafting10: Index
It covers propagation structures;nursery techniques and management; sexual method of propagation; apomixis, polymebryony, chimera and bud sport; selection and maintenance of mother trees; collection of scion wood stick, scion-stock relationship and their influences, and bud wood certification; natural vegetative propagation;conventional artificial vegetative propagation; and biotechnological artificial vegetative propagation (micropropagation).Simple and lucid language has been followed for clear and easy understanding of the beginners. The book is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Questions are set at the end of each chapter under Outcomes Assessment to assess the understanding of the students.
Cartea „Te iubesc...” face parte din trilogia..., „Te iubesc, până la moarte...” și „Te iubesc, atâta timp cât îmi bate inima”, romane de dragoste autobiografice care includ capitole. din viața într-un cuplu dintre scriitorul Julien Tănase și soția sa, Magdi, cu care are o relație de 30 de ani, totul pe fondul evenimentelor prin care a trecut România în ultimele decenii, după Revoluția din '89. O trilogie despre rezistența de-a lungul timpului a unui tânăr cuplu de îndrăgostiți, care a trecut prin evenimente rupte de realitatea din România în care dormitul cu pistolul sub pernă, teama de a-și fi răpit copilul și chiar „războaiele”. „a purtat împotriva corupției magistraților, politicienilor și a sistemelor informaționale ale unei societăți civile cuprinse de corupția răspândită din România, inclusiv de procesul inventat de DNA (Național Anticorupție). Direcția) pentru a-și opri munca de jurnalist și câștigat în cele din urmă de scriitor, face din autobiografia scriitorului Julien Tănase una fascinantă care te lasă cu un gust amar în gură și cu un mare semn de întrebare; ... „astfel de lucruri s-au întâmplat și continuă să se întâmple în România”?... Scriitorul Julien Tănase : „Un prieten din Poliția Italiană mi-a spus, iar eu îl citez: „... dacă ai fi făcut în Italia ceea ce ai făcut pentru țara ta, astăzi o stradă ți-ar purta numele! Dar ai fost mort!"
(Adapted into a feature film to be released 2021, by US world distribution "House of Film"- "Frankenstein" official film trailer) - A theatre troupe comes to town performing "Frankenstein" A young female reporter, who is investigating the legend, believes that the novel is not a fiction but the true story of a group of alchemists, founded by the young doctor Victor Frankenstein. In 1817, they managed to defeat mortality and return from the dead. Interviewing the theatre troupe members, the reporter is confronted with the dark heroes of the novel, who appear in the city more alive than ever. Her investigations lead her to a universe of monsters and finally to a revelation about the secret of an eternal love that defies even death. But what is real and what is just her imagination? Who are these "actors"? Why have they come to her town? And who even it this young reporter?
The action takes place in an alternative technocratic future, where people are divided into two social classes.Children under 16 with exceptional abilities belong to the First Class. They enjoy benefits, power, wealth, and immunity. The Second Class (adults deprived of the gift) have practically no rights.Members of the opposite classes, Oytush and Sati dare to fall in love, but the price of love is the threat of punishment by death by an all-seeing ruler. And these two are not the first to take the liberty of throwing down a challenge to the superpower.
A golem in the middle of the city on a bright day – Fahrat cannot believe his eyes. Normal people cannot see the loamy being, but even for the young Schwertler (swordler) this is an unsettling view. Even though he usually prefers a good wine over any adventure, he follows the monster and meets Ava. The young woman is obviously a common human. Nevertheless, she claims distracted that a black angel stole her newborn twins. But what would Morton, vice chancellor of the city council and operator of the coven, do with two human children? Are these incidents connected to the dread that lurks outside the city? Fahrat’s good nature and his Schwertler/(swordler)pride keep him at Ava’s site. But soon he does not know who is experiencing a new world – whether it is Ava, who meets swearing witches, LKW/Chimären (truck/chimaeras) and lurking Waldwürger (forrestchokers) during her search of her children – or whether it is Fahrat, whose world does not seem to be the world he always thought it was.
For four centuries, the geography of the Modern Age provided extremely contrasting visions of the world: utopias, legends, chimeras, prodigies, and hypotheses mingled with a scientific approach that was becoming more refined: precise measurement of the meridian, gravity and magnetic declination, quantification, introduction of statistics, search for universal principles. Cultural shocks were huge. The search for the location of Paradise, the sixth antipodal continent, El Dorado or the Fortunate Isles continued in all seriousness. While at the same time, the planet was methodically gridded, systematically controlled by the lines of longitude and latitude and demystified by scholarly maps and austere statistics. Similarly, while some still equated the Earth as a living thing or saw it as the unique and glorious centre of the cosmos, others demonstrated that it was nothing but a tiny, banal grain of sand in the now infinite universe of the plurality of worlds. From the imaginary in geographical representations to the assimilation of the new immensity and awareness of the world’s finitude, geographers gradually drew up new systems for understanding the world. A highly illustrated multidisciplinary voyage around the Earth.
A new season in the Fallen Lands brings a sad end for some and unexpected new beginnings for others. Cat Calhoun, broken and unsure, struggles to find his way after a series of devastating losses. For Bear Ra'Khan, unexpectedly favored by Fortune, dreams of power and revenge edge closer to reality. The Scarlet Weaver, sightless and imprisoned, watches as time and hope slip away. For her lover, D'Arc and the rest of the fugitive Pirate Lords, the gallows call even as the mystery of their betrayal deepens. Casting a shadow over all their fates--one powerful woman's unimaginably dark desires.
Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.
Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.
A compelling anthology of the best poetry of a unique press.
If you've ever wanted to know what a panda does all day long, how your heart manages to shift all that blood around your body or what makes a rainbow shine, you've come to the right book. A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You features the answers to all of these questions and many more, all told in a super-fun comic book format in three awesome sections: Human Body, Animal Kingdom and Earth and Science. A Day in the Life... is packed with facts, laughs and amazing illustrations you can dive into all day long.
Thoughtful and rigorous, the book provides an excellent survey of contemporary censorship. – Publishers Weekly This hybrid book examines the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran. Featuring American artist Pamela Joseph’s feminist appropriation of these images as well as Iranian and other Middle Eastern contemporary artists Aydin Aghdashloo (Iran), Boushra Almutawakel (Yemen), Ana Lily Amirpour (Great Britain/USA), Gohar Dashti (Iran), Daryoush Gharahzad (Iran), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Bahman Ghobadi (Iranian Kurdistan), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Hoda Katebi (USA), Simin Keramati (Iran/Canada), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/ Great Britain), Shohreh Mehran (Iran), Houman Mortazavi (Iran), Manijeh Sehhi (Iran), and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran/USA).
This book describes and evaluates animal biotechnology and its application in veterinary medicine and pharmaceuticals as well as improvement in animal food production. Transgenic technologies are used for improving milk production and the meat in farm animals as well as for creating models of human diseases. Transgenic animals are used for the production of proteins for human medical use. Biotechnology is applied to facilitate xenotransplantation from animals to humans. Genetic engineering is done in farm animals and nuclear transfer technology has become an important and preferred method for cloning animals. Biotechnology has potential applications in the management of several animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, avian flue and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The most important biotechnology based products consist of vaccines, particularly genetically engineered or DNA vaccines. Gene therapy for diseases of pet animals is a fast developing area because many of the technologies used in clinical trials humans were developed in animals and many of the diseases of cats and dogs are similar to those in humans. RNA interference technology is now being applied for research in veterinary medicine. Molecular diagnosis is assuming an important place in veterinary practice. Polymerase chain reaction and its modifications are considered to be important. Fluorescent in situ hybridization and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays are also widely used. Newer biochip-based technologies and biosensors are also finding their way in veterinary diagnostics. This book is an attempt to unravel the mysteries of biotechnology as it affects animal health and production."
Microbial organisms occupy a peculiar place in the human view of life. Microorganisms represent the richest repertoire of molecular and chemical diversity in nature as they underlie basic ecosystem processes. Microorganisms are used for various purposes including food production and preservation, management of pests and pathogens, bioleaching of metals, increasing soil fertility, generating biofuels, monitoring pollutants, cleaning up of oil spills, waste water treatment, assaying of chemicals and serving as tools for medical research. Besides microorganisms are the major sources of antimicrobial agents and produce a wide range of other important medicinal compounds including enzymes, enzyme inhibitors, antihelminthics, antitumor agents, insecticides, vitamins, immunosuppressants and immunomodulatoThe study of microbial diversity is thus important to solve new and emerging disease problems and to advance biotechnology.
This book covers most of the areas of plant propagation including from traditional to recent advances. The emphasis has not only laid on plant propagation techniques and nursery management practices, but also on the ideas and their applications. The book will help the students to understand various techniques of plant propagation and nursery management and their utility in a very simple way.
Bold narrative poems that recreate the past.
This book covers most of the topics with latest information on stem cell in general and mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) research in particular. The book is divided into 17 chapters covering almost all aspect of stem cell technology including definition of different types of stem cells, isolation of MSC from different animals, culture and characteristics of mesenchymal stem cell, osteoinduction potential of MSC, protocol for isolation of bone marrow derived MSC, fat derived MSC, embryonic stem cells (ESC), protocol for MSC passaging. This book also includes different research findings on application of bioengineered stem cell technologies in skin wound healing, burn wound healing, critical bone defect healing, large bone defect healing, corneal wound healing and in liver regeneration. The main objective of this book is to provide the latest information to meet the requirements of not only undergraduate and post graduates research scholars but also to the teachers, biologists and clinician involved in animal treatment and research. With more than 150 good quality colour photographs of stem cell isolation, stem cell culture, stem cell morphology, stem cell characteristics and stem cell application in different surgical interventions.
