Adoption of recently introduced herbicide tolerant soybean varieties has been extremely rapid. By 1998, approximately 38% of the total US soybean acreage was planted to varieties developed through the use of biotechnology methods to be tolerant to various

Since 1987, when the International Organisation for Standardisation first published the ISO 9000 series of quality standards, the world-wide take up of quality certification to the ISO 9000 standard (QCert) has been increasing rapidly. At the end of

Fresh-cut or minimally processed refrigerated fruit has become an important area of potential growth in the rapidly expanding fresh-cut produce industry (Luo and Barbosa-Canovas, 1996). However, deterioration of the fruit after minimal processing resulting from

In this paper, we report direct measurement of an influx of extracellular Ca²⁺ induced by gamete fusion in flowering plants. This result was