A New Focus on Plant Sciences

Progress of Phytoremediation: Focus on New Plant and Molecular Mechanism

Phytoremediation use plants to remove pollutants from the environment and render them harmless. It is an economically feasible and sustainable ways regarding to the remediation of our environment without introducing any new contaminants. Considering the vast diversity of pollutants and the different kinds of environmental conditions are two most important aspects that plants used for the remedi...

Social sciences and medical humanities: the new focus of psychiatry

The clinical practice of psychiatry should incorporate a biopsychosocial model of illness, acknowledging both cultural and social influences on the patient's experience. Medical humanities include a number of academic disciplines that complement the clinical practice of psychiatry. The medical profession, including psychiatry, has a social responsibility to study the psychosocial context within...

Communications in Plant Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of highly developed medicinal usages of plants in the treatment of cancer. In the last decades, the cancer treatment has been included in this range of plant use, due to plant active substances. Active substances or secondary metabolites are generally known for their widespread application. When it comes to the cancer treatment, these substances ...

The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences – Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth

As plant scientists we are increasingly aware and concerned with the accelerating rate of change of our planet and our societies. In our lifetimes we have witnessed major alterations in the structure and make-up of land, water, and the atmosphere, in use of natural resources and agricultural practices, in migration of plants, animals, and people, in rates of urbanization, and in the rise and sp...

Focus Issue on Virus-plant Cell Interaction