Understanding why wood bonds fail is an excellent route toward understanding how to
make them better. Certifying a bonded product usually requires achieving a specifc load …

The book includes chapters on: sterilization of apparatus and culture media; culture of
pathogens; long-term storage of plant pathogens; detection and estimation of inoculum; …

By Steven E. Ruzin. xij322 pages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999.£ 32n50 p\b.
ISBN 0 19 508956 1. There is a long and noble tradition of plant microtechnique texts …

(Utilização de estruturas secretoras na identificação dos gêneros de Asteraceae de uma
vegetação de cerrado). Com o objetivo de se verificar o possível valor taxonômico das …

Across plant species, leaves vary enormously in their size and their venation architecture, of
which one major function is to replace water lost to transpiration. The leaf hydraulic …

The field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially
with regard to improvements in cladistic analysis and the use of new molecular data. The …

Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana deficient in gibberellin synthesis (ga1-3 and ga1-6), and a
gibberellin-insensitive mutant (gai) were compared to the wild-type (WT) Landsberg erecta …

Leaf size and venation show remarkable diversity across dicotyledons, and are key
determinants of plant adaptation in ecosystems past and present. Here we present global …

Several brittle culm mutations of rice (Oryza sativa) causing fragility of plant tissues have
been identified genetically but not characterized at a molecular level. We show here that the …

Pollen grains are everywhere-in the air, in the water, in soil and in the food we eat. Pollen
has direct relevance in agriculture, horticulture, plant breeding, crop improvement and …