Many plant-associated microbes are pathogens that impair plant growth and reproduction.
Plants respond to infection using a two-branched innate immune system. The first branch …

Plants cannot move to escape environmental challenges. Biotic stresses result from a battery
of potential pathogens: fungi, bacteria, nematodes and insects intercept the photosynthate …

Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may
slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow and recombination. It may accelerate …

… Jones first became involved with design methods while working as an … , Jones set about
studying the design process being used by the engineers. To his surprise, and to theirs, Jones' …

Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes,
express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize …

This study tests whether firms that would benefit from import relief (eg, tariff increases and
quota reductions) attempt to decrease earnings through earnings management during import …

Human behaviour is thought to spread through face-to-face social networks, but it is difficult
to identify social influence effects in observational studies 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , and it is …

Context. —The main threats to adolescents' health are the risk behaviors they choose. How
their social context shapes their behaviors is poorly understood. Objective. —To identify risk …

The last decade has seen a sharp increase in the number of scientific publications describing
physiological and pathological functions of extracellular vesicles (EVs), a collective term …

Objective. To standardize outcome measures in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Three
indices were identified which could adequately describe outcome (disease activity, damage …