To defend or to grow: lessons from Arabidopsis C24

The Dilemma of Plants: to Grow or Defend

Physiological and ecological constraints play key roles in the evolution of plant growth patterns, especially in relation to defenses against herbivores. Phenotypic and life history theories are unified within the growth-differentiation balance (GDB) framework, forming an integrated system of theories explaining and predicting patterns of plant defense and competitive interactions in ecological...

To Defend or Not To Defend: That’s the Question

Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and is one of the leading causes of nosocomial infections. E. faecalis harbors a number of antibiotic resistance genes, and most of these are present on mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that can be disseminated within the species, as well as to other members of the human microflora. In an article by Price and colleagues [V. J. Price et al., mSphe...

To grow or to shrink…

Aurora B puts chromosomes in their place mall molecule inhibitors of Aurora B activity, characterized by Hauf et al. (page 281) and Ditchfield et al. (page 267), reveal that the mammalian kinase and its budding yeast counterpart, Ipl1, have similar functions. Without Aurora B, mistakes in kinetochore–chromosome interactions go uncorrected. Early evidence of a function for the Aurora family in c...

101 Ways to Try to Grow Arabidopsis: Materials/Methodology

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...