Publications

The purpose of this report is to make available the outcome of the work of COST Acton 722 ‘Short-range forecasting of fog, visibility and low clouds’, which was carried out from 2002 to 2003. During this period, an inventory of existing forecast methods and ongoing projects was made and an evaluation of requirements from customers and from forecasters was prepared. These results will be used for the next phases of COST Action 722. However, they could be also useful for a wider community interested in the processing of input data (in-situ, satellites), numerical and statistical forecasting and in application purposes.

COST Action E30 is one of the largest COST Actions thus far under the domain on forests and forestry products. COST Action E30 has 21 participating countries. The main objective of COST Action E30 is to gain better understanding of the problems and possible solutions to forest-based entrepreneurship in small-scale forestry, wood processing, and non-wood forest products and services aiming at improved employment and income in rural areas.

This book provides comprehensive, current scientific and applied practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest that is used to protect crops from soil-borne diseases, abiotic stress and to enhance growth/yield. Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock-scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting-mediated crop improvement. In this book, the authors attend to this need and explain the reasons for, and methods and applications of, grafting.