Earthquake Performance of Civil Engineering Structures
Workshop on Service Life Assessment of Wooden Structures
International Workshop on Sociocultural Aspects of Defence Restructuring and Conversion - Workshop Programme and Abstracts
Fifth Plenary Meeting of COST E21 - The Role of Forest for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Programme and Abstracts
Unconventional Medicine at the Beginning of the Third Millennium - Abstruct Book & Scientific Programme
Environmental Optimisation of Wood Protection
- Pages: 260
- Author(s): A.F. Bravery, R-D Peek
- Publisher(s): OPOCE
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0034-1
- EUR: 22597
Proceedings of the Final Conference, Estoril, Portugal, 22-23 March 2004.
COST 358 – Pedestrians’ Quality Needs Final Report
- Author(s): R. Methorst, H. Monterde i Bort, R. Risser, D. Sauter, M. Tight and J. Walker
- Download from external website
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9566903-0-2
The Pedestrians’ Quality Needs Project (PQN) established what people need to choose to walk. This summary provides an understanding of those needs and how they can be met and supported by policy.
It is hoped that this summary will help practitioners:
Methodologies and Results in Grapevine Research
- Author(s): S. Delrot, H. Medrano, E. Or, L. Bavaresco and S. Grando (Ed)
- Publisher(s): Springer
- http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/agriculture/book/978-90-481-9282-3
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-481-9282-3
Grapevine is one of the most widely cultivated fruit crop worldwide, encompassing 8 million hectares of arable land. Grapevine is also a crop of major economical interest which is grown since several milleniums in Europe, and is part of its culture. Worldwide, viticulture is presently facing two major challenges: climatic change, which may alter wine quality and typicity, and the need for alternative strategies avoiding the use of massive amounts of phytochemicals. COST 858. Viticulture (2003-2009) gathered scientists from 17 european labs, Australia and New Zealand around 5 work groups in order to promote networking on grapevine research.
The Action was interdisciplinary since expertises ranging from ecophysiology, epidemiology, physiology, genetics, cell biology and molecular biology were involved. In this context, the book illustrates various techniques that may contribute to a better characterization of the physiological status of the grapevine plant, and to develop molecular and genetic tools. The genome of grapevine has been sequenced in 2007, which opens many possibilities for genetic improvement through breeding and selection, and for the understanding of the plant response to climatic changes and to fungal, viral and insect diseases.