Commonwealth meeting: Food for reserves

Food Reserves in Mountain Longleaf Pine Roots during Shoot Elongation

Survival and growth of longleaf pine seedlings depends upon a well-developed root system. Soil moisture is also critical for the seedling to emerge from the grass-stage. When longleaf pine seedlings emerge from the grass stage, they grow rapidly in height and diameter. Branches are often few in number and, if present, may have low photosynthesis rates. This growth pattern is seen on all longlea...

A recipe for meeting the world food crisis

Keynote 1: Food for the World - GeoComputation Meeting the Challenge

Meeting the challenge of providing sufficient and high quality food for the World is a hunger reducing necessity, which is an imperative for global sustainability and economic prosperity. Much of the popular emphasis for the scientific contribution to help meet this challenge is focussed on climate change and global warming. At a specific level of contextual detail, studies continue with climat...

InFORM: an innovative, integrated food safety meeting.

S eptember is Food Safety Month, so this column provides the perfect op­ portunity to tell Journal of Environmen­ tal Health readers about an upcoming food safety meeting: the Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response Management (InFORM) Meeting. Sponsored by several federal agen­ cies and national organizations, this meet­ ing emphasizes the integration of laborato­ rians, epidemiologists, and en...

Diabetic Retinopathy Network for the Commonwealth

The new Diabetic Retinopathy Network (DR-NET) links 15 hospitals in 10 lowand middle-income countries to share experiences and support each other to identify and treat more patients with diabetic retinopathy. The need is great: in the catchment areas served by the 15 institutions, nearly 400,000 people are estimated to have diabetic retinopathy (DR), but fewer than 10,000 are currently identifi...