Background: Over the past 10–15 years, a substantial amount of work has been done by the
scientific, regulatory, and business communities to elucidate the effects and risks of …

Background: There is growing concern worldwide about the role of polluted soil and water
environments in the development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Objective: Our …

Background: Only recently has the environment been clearly implicated in the risk of antibiotic
resistance to clinical outcome, but to date there have been few documented approaches …

World wheat grain yields increased substantially in the 1960s and 1970s because farmers
rapidly adopted the new varieties and cultivation methods of the so-called ‘green revolution’ 1 …

Ppd-D1 on chromosome 2D is the major photoperiod response locus in hexaploid wheat (Triticum
aestivum). A semi-dominant mutation widely used in the “green revolution” converts …

Recent advances in crop research have the potential to accelerate genetic gains in wheat,
especially if co-ordinated with a breeding perspective. For example, improving …

The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project aims
to foster the coordinated development of minimum-information checklists and provide a …

Orbital data indicate that the youngest volcanic units on the Moon are basalt lavas in Oceanus
Procellarum, a region with high levels of the heat-producing elements potassium, thorium, …

… B1 (the awn inhibitor locus that is closely linked to ~-amy-A1 (Snape, unpublished)) is the
reverse of that presumed by Snape et al. (1985). Frost tolerance was classified as a qualitative …

We present the hybrid reciprocal velocity obstacle for collision-free and oscillation-free
navigation of multiple mobile robots or virtual agents. Each robot senses its surroundings and …