Editorial – botany in global history

Editorial – Commodities, empires, and global history

Commodities are back in the news. The early twenty-first century seems to have witnessed an upsurge in the old conflict over valuable resources, leading to a global scramble for commodities, and bringing in its wake renewed international tension, war, dispossession, and environmental degradation. The Cold War clash of ideologies, it has been argued, has been replaced by global competition betwe...

The plasma membrane, with notes on the history of botany.

Botany :

By the law of mutually exclusive events, the distribution of a' when s' is known can be found by integrating the present p(a)p(cr)dadu over all o. Equation (9) is then in fact obtained, showing the consistency of the results given in these papers. Equation (9) is the answer to question'(A); and while the answer to question (A) has thus been shown to follow from the answer to question (B), the m...

Editorial: Going global.

‘A description of the organisms found in South Russian sour milk products is not new to Russian literature. For example, fermented milk from the district of Don has been examined, and it has been found that both lactic and alcoholic fermentation products are present... A preliminary examination of Kuban fermented milk (Kuban being adjacent to the district of Don) showed that its bacteriological...

Editorial: History of Chemoattractant Research

This Research Topic entitled “History of Chemoattractant Research” collects a series of personal stories by numerous experts in the field of chemoattractant research. The individual contributions portray some key discoveries that helped to transform cell migration research into a global playing field within immunology (and beyond). Early progress had a profound effect on both academia and indus...