Publications

Sweet and sour cherries (Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus) are important fruit crops for which demand is high and growing. A significant number of new varieties, rootstocks and training systems have been released or developed in recent years in order to improve the efficiency and profitability of cherry orchards.

Cherries: Botany, Production and Uses covers the genetics, ecophysiology, production, protection and uses of cherries. Presenting up-to-date scientific data and applied information, this book is invaluable for researchers, teachers and all professionals working in the cherries value chain.

Jiont Fianl Conference of Forest for Recreation and Tourism (COST E33) and 11th European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF), 28-31 May 2008 in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

The main objective of the Action was to improve the predictive potential of scientific information gathered within the framework of development of new, efficacious and safe drugs, as well as sustainable industrial chemicals. Some form of modelling is performed during any of the “steps” of new drug development. By necessity, scientists active in any of these “steps” have some contact with others, active in “neighbour steps”. However, as often demonstrated in practice, valuable information is not necessarily available for scientists active in “steps” that are further apart. For industrial chemicals, “empirically fixed safety factors” are presently used to scale up from animal data to humans.
This approach is not scientifically well based and does not take into consideration all information which is available. In this context, Action COST B15 provided a powerful tool to improve communication between scientists from Academia, the Industry and Governmental Entities.