Michael Zeheter, Die Ordnung der Fischer, Nachhaltigkeit und Fischerei am Bodensee (1350–1900) (Umwelthistorische Forschungen, Bd. 6), Köln: Böhlau Verlag 2014. 205 S. mit 14 s/w Abb. ISBN 978-3-412-22356-4. Geb. € 34,90

Biological systems, from embryos to social insects, get tremendous mileage by having vast numbers of cheap and unreliable individuals cooperate to achieve complex goals. We are also rapidly building new kinds of distributed systems with similar characteristics, from multi-modular robots and robot swarms, to vast sensor networks. Can we engineer collective systems to achieve the kind of complexi...

With the purpose of enhancing environmental stress tolerance of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, cv. Kokei 14), we transformed this plant with spermidine synthase genes derived from Cucurbita ficifolia (FSPD1). The FSPD1-transgenic plants showed twice as high spermidine content as the wild type (WT) counterpart in both leaves and storage roots. One of the most characteristic features of the trans...