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1 WHY PLANT BIOLOGY RESEARCH TODAY?
Pages 13-20

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... Modern civilization rests on the successful and sustained cultivation of plants and on the wise use of the biologic and physical resource base on which their cultivation depends. Our knowledge about the world around us is incomplete if we do not include plants in our discoveries, and it is distorted if we do not place sufficient emphasis on plant life.
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... Flgure 2 Potential applications of plant-biology research. North Rout ~ _ /*
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From page 15...
... Plants, in part through their unique symbiotic relatiorlships with microorganisms, also play a major role In regulating the partitioning of riitrogen between atmospheric and life processes. We will never fully understand the global environment-or have a serious hope of successfully managing it in the face of explosive population growth-until we have a much more comprehensive understanding of plaIlts, their cellular processes, and their ecology and population biology.
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... ~ . ::: ~at30spheric :~hange (v: lacltof to Ha:: s:~;d~:b~ ~:~ I:: :~ and other effects of human use of the earth show that human activities can overpower the buffering effects of the natural processes that regulate global climate.
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... Basic knowledge of genetic inheritance, defense responses, pathogen genetics, and Population genetics will ~ . _ continue to yield improvements in the technology needed to secure a stable food supply.
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From page 19...
... Now, the search has been reversed and plant-denved products are sought to replace harmful coal tar dyes. Modern industry and society continue to depend in many ways on chemical products denved from plants, such as soaps, detergents, rubber, paints, resins, plastics, absorbents, and adhesives.
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From page 20...
... Other National Research Council reports have contained pertinent research agendas, for example, Investing in Research (~NRC, 1989a) , Opportunities in Biology (NRC, 1989b)
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