Weed community ecology : Tedious sampling or relevant science? A Canadian perspective

Cystic fibrosis therapy: a community ecology perspective.

Current therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF) focuses on minimizing the microbial community and the host's immune response through the aggressive use of airway clearance techniques, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and treatments that break down the pervasive endobronchial biofilm. Antibiotic selection is typically based on the susceptibility of individual microbial strains to specific antibiotics in vit...

Weed Science and Management

Genomics for Weed Science

Numerous genomic-based studies have provided insight to the physiological and evolutionary processes involved in developmental and environmental processes of model plants such as arabidopsis and rice. However, far fewer efforts have been attempted to use genomic resources to study physiological and evolutionary processes of weedy plants. Genomics-based tools such as extensive EST databases and ...

Weeds of agricultural importance: bridging the gap between evolutionary ecology and crop and weed science.

An undeniable and expensive consequence of agricultural practices is the adaptation of weeds to agricultural systems. Weeds are responsible for significant crop yield losses and for financial losses in agricultural production – in the order of 10% per year worldwide (Oerke, 2006). To address this critical problem, the discipline of weed science has expanded over the past 50 yr into an amalgam o...

Metaheuristics: A Canadian Perspective

Metaheuristics are generic search strategies that can be adapted to solve complex problems. This paper describes in simple terms the most popular metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems. It also emphasizes the main contributions of the Canadian research community in the development and application of metaheuristics.