Origins and Development of Adaptation
Published on 14. September 2009
256 pages
978-0-470-71853-7 (ISBN)
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
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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
