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Tropical rainforests are rapidly disappearing. The earth is warming and its climate is changing. Species are going extinct at an alarming rate. Many people live in poverty, with limited access to the basics of life such as clean water, adequate nutrition, shelter, health care, and education. Much has been written on these topics, and the reader may wonder what they have to do with chemical biology...
This chapter provides a framework for the rest of the book, by defining biodiversity, describing techniques to measure biodiversity, and listing the Earth’s biodiversity hotspots as identified by Norman Myer. The chapter then gives a brief discussion of theories of the causes of biodiversity, starting with the earliest theories, published in the 1960s, and ending with the most recent theories explaining...
Plant neurobiology is a newly focused field of plant biology research that aims to understand how plants process the information they obtain from their environment to develop, prosper and reproduce optimally. The behavior plants exhibit is coordinated across the whole organism by some form of integrated signaling, communication and response system. This system includes long-distance electrical signals,...
Abstract. Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are enzymes that cleave a specific adenine base from the highly conserved sarcin/ricin (S/R) loop of the large ribosomal RNA, thus arresting protein synthesis at the translocation step. In the present study, we employed three RIPs to dissect the antifungal activity of RIPs as plant defense proteins. We measured the catalytic activity of RAT (the catalytic...
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