The applicability of behavioural concepts to plants is further enhanced with the realization that all organisms face the same harsh forces of natural selection in the context of finding resources, mates and coping with neighbours.
It brought concepts related to plant evolution into line with animal evolution as it emerged from Dobzhansky's 1937 Genetics and the Origin of Species and provided the conceptual framework to organize a disparate set of disciplines into a new field: plant evolutionary biology.
Central to our approach is the use of the genomic signature concept to characterize the plant stress phenotype and provide a link to the underlying network pathways, modules, and eventually genes.
Finally we briefly discuss the materials and R&D needs beyond the immediate future, including new concepts to improve plant operability and component reliability.
Transformable plant designs are emerging in the process industry as an alternative production concept to conventional large-scale plant designs.
Celera went from concept to building a new plant from scratch to completed genome sequence in just 25 months, despite predictions of the consortium's experts that its DNA sequencing strategy was bound to fail.
Celera went from a concept to building a new plant from scratch to completed genome sequence in just 25 months, despite the predictions of the consortium's experts that its DNA sequencing strategy was bound to fail.
But as the River Rouge modernization project (which includes a new assembly factory and updates on some existing buildings) evolves from ambitious concept to actual construction, the plant's 7,000 workers and millions of Detroit-area residents are beginning to recognize a significance that extends beyond the plant's walls.
Figure 11 illustrates the process scheme of the first plant concept: To achieve high yields of methane in the product gas, the methanation reactor is divided into four serial reaction stages interrupted by intermediate gas coolers.
Toward this objective, we introduce the application of "bondomers", a computationally efficient and intuitively appealing alternative to the commonly used isotopomer concept, to flux evaluation in plants, by using Catharanthus roseus hairy roots as a model system.
