Morgan is recognised as a potential match-winner, which was not the case with Cook, and given the timescale he was the obvious choice to take over.
"I thought fruits and flowers would be the most obvious candidates for noticeable decay on the timescale we had available, but our scenic artist collaborator Lucy Goodwin really notched up our thinking," she adds.
"Heatwaves of that nature had happened in the past on a 100-year timescale and there wasn't an obvious significant trend in temperatures in that region or in the statistics of hot temperatures in that region.
The most obvious are the simple issues of workload and timescale, as referred to in the detailed accounts cited above, for example the RMIT case apparently took two years to resolve and a significant amount of academic staff time in preparation for and attendance at court hearings (Zobel 2004).
While thermally driven order-disorder transitions are, from the viewpoint of physics, the most obvious method for controlling states of organization, the timescales necessary for effective cellular dynamics would require temperatures exceeding the physiologically viable temperature range.
Nevertheless, it is possible that the tip fluctuations could lead to catastrophe, though how these timescales could be bridged is not obvious.
As with many economically important woody perennial species, breeding of Ribes is a long-term process due to the highly heterozygous germplasm available and the long generation time, so there is an obvious incentive to develop marker-assisted breeding strategies to reduce the timescale for selection of superior genotypes.
One reason that I took so long over the review was that I wanted to be certain I fully understood the method by applying it myself, but it has become obvious that I will not be able to in a reasonable timescale.
For obvious logistical reasons, most of these studies were based on large scale investigations carried out on short timescales.
However, with the current knowledge at the time of recruitment we considered that it would have been difficult to perform a blinded placebo-controlled study over such a long timescale in children, and although dietary records were not obtained at any time-point, there were no obvious differences in lifestyle or behaviour observed.
