My point is that institutions like Kew, in the UK and abroad, are at the forefront of plant and fungus research, and this work is vital in the original sense of the word: to do with life and its healthy continuity.
Understanding sexual reproduction is at the forefront of plant research and has benefited immensely from the development of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomics techniques in recent decades.
The most commonly quoted process brings to the forefront finely tuned plant defensive responses following attacks by different enemies [24].
The changing emphasis in target traits has been a key feature in the development of transgenic technology in potato, which has been at the forefront of progress in crop plants due to the relative ease of transformation of this species.
But, according to Greenpeace, an environmental group in the forefront of efforts to require safer plants, relatively few facilities have followed Clorox's lead, even though alternatives for dangerous gases, including ammonia and hydrogen fluoride are available.
Appalled by what is happening, an anti-biofuels movement is growing – for example, a protest against the Drax plant, which is at the forefront of Britain's push toward biofuels, took place yesterday in London.
NewLeaf, which just closed on $6 million in new money to round out a $30 million round of funding, is one of a number of companies working at the forefront of agricultural technology research into the plant biome.
These findings demonstrate that the RXLR effector family is at the forefront in evolution and adaptation of oomycete plant pathogens towards their hosts.
The composition planted its flag in the forefront of my cortex, and I felt myself being transported back to reality, sobriety, without worrying about what that meant or the fact that I didn't feel as good as I did a few hours prior.
In particular, plant viruses have been at the forefront of efforts to develop novel vaccines, in part because of the potential for producing large quantities of antigenic material in plant hosts, as well as the possibility for developing orally-bioavailable antigens.
