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Nature 439, 256-260 (19 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439256a; Published online 18 January 2006
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Protect Enzyme from In Planta Degradation
A proposal for stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed is desired.
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Scientist, Pathway Informatics
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- University of Dresden, Dept. of Medicine, Director: Prof. S. Bornstein
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Climate change: A sea change
Quirin Schiermeier1
- Quirin Schiermeier is Nature's German correspondent.
Abstract
A collapse in ocean currents triggered by global warming could be catastrophic, but only now is the Atlantic circulation being properly monitored. Quirin Schiermeier investigates.
Henry Ellis, captain of the British slave-trader Earl of Halifax, had a scientific bent. While sailing the subtropical Atlantic in 1751, he measured water temperatures at different depths, using a thermometer, a long rope and a bucket fitted with flaps that sealed water inside the vessel when it was raised.
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