
Origins and Development of Adaptation
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David Evered and Geralyn M. Collins are the editors of Origins and Development of Adaptation and other titles.
Content
- Intro
- 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 defences
- Discussion
- 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
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