Oscar A. Pérez‐Escobar, Sidonie Bellot, Natalia A. S. Przelomska, Jonathan M. Flowers et al.
The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, has been a cornerstone of Middle Eastern and North African agriculture for millennia. It was first domesticated in the Persian Gulf, and its evolution appears to have been influenced by gene flow from two wild relatives, P. theophrasti, currently restricted to Cre...
Thomas Fuhs, Franziska Wetzel, Anatol W. Fritsch, Xinzhi Li et al.
Palpation, as already mentioned in the ancient Egyptian medical text Ebers Papyrus, utilizes that solid tumors are stiffer than the surrounding tissue. However, cancer cell lines tend to soften, which may intuitively foster invasion by enhancing the ability of cancer cells to squeeze through dense t...
Susanne S. Renner, Simon Joseph Mayo
Josef Bogner (Fig. 1), who passed away on 23 April this year, was an expert on the taxonomy and biology of monocots, especially aquatic species and Araceae, a family on which he published 199 papers. Josef was born on 29 January 1939 in Gersthofen, about 7 km north of Augsburg in Bavaria. His father...