The Carbon Compounds (Porter, C. W.)

Aspen SUCROSE TRANSPORTER3 Allocates Carbon into Wood Fibers1[C][W]

Wood formation in trees requires carbon import from the photosynthetic tissues. In several tree species, including Populus species, the majority of this carbon is derived from sucrose (Suc) transported in the phloem. The mechanism of radial Suc transport from phloem to developing wood is not well understood. We investigated the role of active Suc transport during secondary cell wall formation i...

Powering the porter brewery.

Before canals and railways developed as a major transport network, it was seldom profitable to transport beer inland over more than a few miles. In country towns and villages, therefore, beer would be brewed either by a small 'common' brewery that supplied a handful of pubs and private customers, or in an even smaller brew-house attached to the pub itself. Many families also brewed their own be...

Roy Porter

Carbon and its Compounds

Professor C. W. Boeck

world generally. Wilhelm Boeck was born at Kongsberg in 1808, became a student in 1S27. Doctor in 1831; he was elected member of the Storthing in 1845 and Professor at the University in 1846. Boeck's name and scientific merits stand in special connexion witli his investigation of two of the most terrible forms of disease which have afflicted and still afflict the human race. Of one of these, Le...