Grasses of Egypt

Grasses

over one’s genes? Perhaps it is because this notion resonates with a public that in the eighties and nineties the same press have bullied into believing that there is ‘a gene for everything’. In that sense, the debate is remarkably similar to the one on whether we humans (or animals in general) have such a thing as a free — or conscious — will. Much like with the idea of the vulgarised genetic ...

Fungal Endophytes of Grasses

Mutualistic interactions between species are receiving increased attention from ecologists, although research lags far behind analogous work on competition or predator-prey interactions. Most research has focused on rather showy mutualisms such as pollination or fruit dispersal and has suggested that mutualisms are more important in tropical communities than in temperate communities (67). Plant...

Mechanisms of drought stress tolerance in cool season grasses

Drought stress is one of the most limiting abiotic stresses affecting growth, production and survival of plants in many areas of the world, and is expected to intensify considering the trend of climate change. Grass species are important for the sustainability of agricultural systems, forage resources for animal farming and landscapes. Grass species adapt to water deficit by different morpholog...

Evolutionary history of the grasses.

While some scientists have been working to sequence and describe the human genome, with increasingly dramatic results, another set of scientists has been quietly providing a map of evolutionary history, a time line that shows how life has evolved. Unlike the genome projects, which accumulate megabases of sequence from many genes in one organism, evolutionary projects accumulate megabases of seq...

Cclvi. the Proteins of Grasses