Special issue “Plant Science and Biotechnology in China”: part two

Plant biotechnology in China.

A survey of China's plant biotechnologists shows that China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside of North America. The list of genetically modified plant technologies in trials, including rice, wheat, potatoes, and peanuts, is impressive and differs from those being worked on in other countries. Poor farmers in China are cultivating more area of genetically modified pl...

Special Issue: Progress in Membrane Engineering for Food and Biotechnology Industries

Special Issue: State of the Art Reviews in Membrane Science and Research

Plant development: a Special Issue.

I am very pleased to introduce this Special Issue focusing on plant developmental biology, published in honour of a founding father of the field, Ian Sussex. At its core, developmental biology is about understanding how a single cell, the zygote, becomes a complex multicellular organism with specialised cell types organised into coherent functional patterns. Evolution has provided two particula...

Special Issue: Learning and creativity Part 1

Special Issue Part 1 ~Issue 3! and Part 2 ~Issue 4! of AIEDAM are based on a workshop on Learning and Creativity held at the 2002 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, AID ’02 ~www.cad.strath.ac.uk0AID02_workshop0Work shop_webpage.html; Gero, 2002!, the sixth of similar workshops, with the previous five focusing on Machine Learning in Design and being held at AIDs ’92, ’94, ’96, ’98,...