The scarcity of usable nitrogen frequently limits plant growth. A tight metabolic association
with rhizobial bacteria allows legumes to obtain nitrogen compounds by bacterial reduction of …

The discovery of antibiotics more than 70 years ago initiated a period of drug innovation
and implementation in human and animal health and agriculture. These discoveries were …

Analysis of the 1,683,333-nt sequence of the pSymB megaplasmid from the symbiotic N 2 -fixing
bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti revealed that the replicon has a high gene density …

Birch, CE, IM Brooks, M. Tjernström, SF Milton, P. Earnshaw, S. Söderberg, and POG
Persson, 2009: The performance of a global and mesoscale model over the central Arctic …

The goal of realistic precipitation forecasts has been a major driver of improvements to
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). Increased computer power has enabled dramatic …

Integrated Urban hydrometeorological, climate and environmental Services (IUS) is a World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) initiative to aid development of science-based services …

Background Yersinia pestis has caused at least three human plague pandemics. The second
(Black Death, 14–17th centuries) and third (19–20th centuries) have been genetically …

Use of NWP for Nowcasting Convective Precipitation: Recent Progress and Challenges in:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 95 Issue 3 (2014) Jump to Content …

A large number of recent studies have aimed at understanding short-duration rainfall extremes,
due to their impacts on flash floods, landslides and debris flows and potential for these to …

During the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, improvements were made to the modeling procedure
at the Met Office, UK, enabling peak ash concentrations within the volcanic cloud to be …