5 Tantan Gao 2, 3 * Jennifer Greenwich , Yan Li, Qi Wang, Yunrong Chai 6 7 8 1. Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China 9 Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China 10 2. Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115 11 3. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge 12 02138 13 14 15 16 17

Department of Plants, Soils, and Biometeorology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-4820, Department of Agronomy, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-2110, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19717-1303, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory, 450 Big Springs Road, R...

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853 (K.W., A.C., D.S.); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7141, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France (K.W.); and Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska, ...

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology (B.W.P., C.K.D., A.T.O., N.C.C.) and Department of Biological Sciences (B.W.P., C.K.D., M.C.M.), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907; Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (C.T.H., A.L.E., K.E.K., D.R.M.); Genetics Institute and Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32...

Acknowledgments: the work of Carmelo Maucieri was supported by Cost Action FA1305 “The EU Aquaponics Hub; Realising Sustainable Integrated Fish and Vegetable Production for the EU” grant COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-FA1305-011016-080268 and by a Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment research grant “Aquaponic Sustainable management of aquaculture effluent as an unconve...

1. Nitrogen-Fixing Organisms 2. Importance of Nitrogen Fixation 2.1. Inputs to the Ecosystems 2.2. Methods to Measure Nitrogen Fixation 3. The Rhizobium–Legume Symbiosis 3.1. The Rhizobia 3.2. Establishment of the Symbiosis 3.3. Functioning of the Root Nodule 4. Evolution and Ecology 5. Applications 5.1. Agronomy and Forestry 5.2. Biotechnology 6. Future Prospects Glossary Bibliography Biograph...

Author details Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Agronomy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Biological Sciences, Syngenta, Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, UK. ELGO-“Demetra”, Agric...

Richard Palmieri1, Lane Tredway2, Dev Niyogi3 &Gary M. Lackmann1 1Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA 2Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 3415, Raleigh, NC 27695-3415, USA 3Purdue University, Department of Agronomy and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Scien...

Phytochemical Screening and Cytotoxic Activity of Two Extracts from Seeds of Lebanese Annona squamosa L Abbas Sabbah , Mohamad Nasser, Akram Hijazi, Hassan Rammal 1, , Ghassan Nasser 1 Basic Sciences department, Faculty of Agronomy, Lebanese University, Lebanon 2 Doctoral School of Science and Technology, Platform for Research and Analysis in Environmental Sciences (PRASE), Lebanese University,...

The present paper illustrates various advantages of the use of invertebrates as an experimental model as these models provide important evidence in the field of evolutionary research and at the same time offer practical applications in the bio-medical and agronomy fields of research.