Preface to the first issue of Ecocycles
Journal Title: Ecocycles - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
On behalf of the Committee of the European Ecocycles Society (ECyS) we are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Ecocycles, our Society’s scientific journal. Ecocycles has been many months in the making: the Committee of ECyS became aware of the wide interest in the subject during the foundation of the Society and felt that a committed journal would be able to bring together the ideas of a broad academic community.
Authors and Affiliations
Tamas Komives, Sandor Nemethy
Disease resistance in plants: The road to phytoalexins and beyond
This paper summarizes the views of the authors on the roles specific metabolites play in the resistance of plants against bacterial and fungal diseases. Pesticidal specific plant metabolites may be synthesized in plant t...
Tissue kinetics of heavy metal and boron accumulation, in the recovery of industrial sewage sludge by superplants
The overall pollution in the planet is reaching unbearable limits for humanity. Never before mankind had come to adopt measures agreed between countries in the magnitude of current ones. Among the measures taken to allev...
Food counterfeiting in general; counterfeiting of milk and dairy products
After giving a general description and historic perspective of food counterfeiting, the questions regarding food counterfeiting today, the nature of food counterfeiting, detection and combating food counterfeiting, and p...
Policy instruments and barriers to rural tourism development – a case study of cluster in the Liptov touristic region in Slovakia
Tourism industry, in general, and rural tourism specifically is often promoted as a go-to solution to the various problems that rural regions and communities are currently facing. In Slovakia, several policies have been...
The contamination of bottom sediments in the Southern Baltic with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
The study involved a comparative analysis of PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) concentrations in the bottom sediments of the southern part of the Baltic Sea. It was determined that the contamination of sediments wit...