Religion can be an effective instrument in politics.This has been a phenomenon all over the ages and different political contexts.Politicians utilise religion in order to gain political goals.This paper wants to investigate the reasons why religion is such an effective instrument within politics.The investigation is as much a historical investigati
Injudicious consumption of antibiotics in the past few decades has arisen the problem of resistance in pathogenic organisms against most antibiotics and antimicrobial agents.Scenarios of treatment failure are becoming more common in hospitals.This situation demands the frequent need for new antimicrobial compounds which may have other mechanisms of
Vineyards are highly intensive systems very often located in biodiversity hotspots at the global scale.These ecosystems are now facing major environmental, agronomical and economic issues that challenge their sustainability.Based on multiple evidence, I illustrate here how biodiversity and several nature-based solutions across scales, from manipula
Abstract Background Hemibiotrophic pathogen such as the fungal pathogen Ganoderma boninense that is destructive to oil palm, manipulates host defense mechanism by strategically switching from biotrophic to necrotrophic phase.Our previous study Sling Shot revealed two distinguishable expression profiles of oil palm genes that formed the basis in ded