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Origins and Development of Adaptation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2009.
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| Colección: | Novartis Foundation Symposia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins and development of adaptation; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Adaptation of plants to soils containing toxic metals-a test for conceit; Discussion; Adaptation of plants to mineral stress in problem soils; Discussion; Plant-plant interactions; Discussion; Adaptation of plants to atmospheric pollutants; Discussion; Evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION Relative fitness and the stability of resistance; Phytoalexins and disease-resistance mechanisms from a perspective of evolution and adaptation; Discussion.
- Insect-plant interactions: endocrine defencesDiscussion; Insect-plant adaptations; Discussion; Adaptation of insects to insecticides; Discussion; Biochemical mechanisms of resistance to insecticides; Discussion; Adaptation of fungi to fungitoxic compounds; Discussion; Bacterial resistance to antibiotics; Discussion; Evolutionary relationships among genes for antibiotic resistance; Discussion; Accessory DNAs in the bacterial gene pool: playground for coevolution; Discussion; FINAL GENERAL DISCUSSION; Chairman's closing remarks; Index to contributors; Subject index.