The four antibiotics produced by Streptomyces coelicolor are all affected by mutations in the absA and absB loci. The absA locus encodes a putative two-component signal transduction system, and the absB locus encodes a homolog of Escherichia coli RNase III. We assessed whether these loci control synthesis of the antibiotics actinorhodin and undecylprodigiosin by regulating transcript abundance ...

The environmental integrity of a mechanism rewarding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depends on appropriate accounting for emission reductions. Largely stemming from a lack of forest data in developing countries, emission reductions accounting contains substantial uncertainty as a result of forest carbon stock estimates, where the application of biome-averaged data o...

The ratification of Article 6 the Paris Agreement allows countries to engage in compliance-based carbon markets which will allow offset their own emissions by investing reductions elsewhere. Given this recent development, it bears considering whether international system is prepared adopt existing voluntary into a compliance system. Accordingly, paper examines nationally determined contribution...

Emissions from deforestation are globally significant. Understanding the benefits and costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation would allow us to plan a pervasive monitoring, verification and reporting infrastructure as part of a Planetary Skin. The areas most vulnerable to deforestation are mainly concentrated in tropical countries and the bulk of emissions arise when the land is ...