A SENSITIVITY-BASED PROCEDURE TO SELECT REPRESENTATIVE FISH SPECIES FOR THE MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT, APPLIED TO THE GREATER NORTH SEA

Harmonizing biodiversity assessments under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) at the pan-European level is a crucial task for the Regional Sea Conventions and EU Member States in the coming years, particularly for fish assessment in Descriptor 1 (biodiversity).Precondition for coherent fish assessments is the establishment of a regional

Summary: The autophagy pathway is an essential facet of the innate immune response, capable of rapidly targeting intracellular bacteria.However, the initial signaling regulating autophagy induction in response to pathogens remains largely unclear.Here, we report that AMPK, an upstream activator of the autophagy pathway, is stimulated upon detection

Introduction: The term of Mulch, is the German word (Molsh) means the soft, however, not soft, and made of plant debris or synthetic substances.Many positive effects attributed to the use of plastic mulch such as adjusting the temperature in the root environment, conserve moisture, reduce weeds, increase root growth, reduce soil erosion, and soil c