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This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of techniques in plant molecular biology for crop protection. The book is divided into four user-friendly sections, the first providing a sound introduction to the terminology and range of techniques available in the domain of plant molecular biology. The second section provides detailed information on the applications of these techniques for solving a variety of technological problems in crop protection. The third section of the book covers genetic engineering of resistance to diseases, herbicides and pests. The final section in the book covers commercial and legislative aspects, including a commercial view of biotechnology in crop protection and the environmental and regulatory aspects of using genetically modified plants and micro-organisms in the field. The editors have drawn together an extremely impressive international list of contributors from the industrial and academic world, providing a huge wealth of vitally important information for a wide range of personnel in the crop protection industry, researchers and academics.All students studying courses in plant and agricultural sciences, crop protection and molecular biology should find this book of great use.

Few individuals can be unmoved by the impact of molecular biology. Advances in the discipline over four decades have progressed at a rate unrivalled in other scientific areas. In its formative years, molecular biology examined the chemical and physical structures of biological molecules, subsequently elucidated the nature and function of DNA and evolved into molecular genetics. From this exponential growth of scientific knowledge, tremendous opportunities were created for the application of molecular approaches to solve problems in applied biology. This book describes the new productive association between novel state­ of-the-art molecular biology and crop protection, a discipline with a sound heritage in traditional applied biology and chemistry. Never before has crop protection faced such diverse challenges. It is charged with improving global food supplies and with the pressure of population increases of one billion in the next decade. But to consider protection of crops simply in terms of weed, pest and disease control would be a gross oversimplification of the mission. Rather, crop protectionists must develop measures which will maintain crop yield and quality without harm to the environment. Chemical, cultural and biological approaches to crop protection must also fulfil evolving legislative demands and address the issues which confer public acceptability.

Proceedings of the EEC Flax Workshop, held in Brussels, Belgium, May 4-5, 1988 sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture.

Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance ranges widely across the variety of Victorian theatrical spaces and forms in examining the ways in which the production of Shakespeare fundamentally informs the changing nature and status of the Victorian theatre. It considers the performance spaces of the legitimate theatre, but also looks at burlesques and parodies, the cultural and political spaces of the 1832 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, the artistic realm of Shakespeare illustrations and theatre posters, and Shakespeare's presence in nineteenth-century Europe and America.