This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on the development of fungicide resistance in agriculture.The first chapter examines how pathogens develop resistance to fungicides and reviews the ways to detect and measure resistance. The chapter also discusses mechanisms of resistance, such as target site mutation and oppression and multi-drug resistance.The second chapter builds on research covered in the first chapter and reviews the development of resistance in cereal pat...

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on fusarium in cereal crops.The first chapter describes how progress can be built over current agricultural practices in integrated pest management plans. It also addresses the disease cycle of Fusarium head blight, host–pathogen interactions, genetic resistance, the role of mycotoxins, as well as the impact of the disease on yields and loss of crop quality.The second chapte...

Reviews key recent research on the main fungal diseases, their modes of infection and potential strategies for dealing with themSummarises the range of techniques for breeding more resistant varietiesAssesses ways to manage fungicide resistance and the range of methods in developing integrated disease management of cereals

Taking its cues from Richard Walsh’s influential 2007 book, The Rhetoric of Fictionality, Fictionality and Literature sets out to examine the implications of a rhetorical understanding of fictionality. A rhetorical approach understands fictionality and nonfictionality not as binary opposites but as different means to the same end: influencing an audience’s understanding of the world. Arguing that fiction is not just a feature of particular works, such as novels, but an ad...

I 1800-tallets London eksperimenterer den anerkendte læge og forsker Dr. Jekyll med en mikstur, som skal kunne skille hans gode sider fra de dårlige. Men med eksperimenterne slipper han i stedet en ond side af sig selv løs. En side som får et liv og en krop for sig selv under navnet Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll får dog stadig sværere ved at kontrollere denne Mr. Hyde, som efterhånden får lov at tage mere og mere over ...Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) var forfatter og journalist, født o...