Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the substrate-free rooting of a plurality of unrooted cuttings, comprising the steps: providing a carrier strip having a plurality of cavities which are open at the top for receiving in each case an unrooted cutting in each cavity, wherein each cavity is provided with openings at least in a region associated with a cutting base, inserting an unrooted cutting into each cavity, applying a water-persistant, water- and air-permeable climate membrane to the carrier strip provided with the cuttings in such a manner that at least the region of each cavity of the carrier strip that is associated with the cutting base is surrounded by the climate membrane, arranging the carrier strip provided with the climate membrane in a rooting station and leaving the cuttings to root for a predetermined period of time, with regular misting, and at the end of the predetermined rooting period, dispatching the carrier strip with the rooted cuttings for further processing, or separating the car

Abstract: A new Solidago plant particularly distinguished by having a white ray floret color and early flowering is disclosed.

Abstract: Recombinant cells expressing a multifunctional adhesin protein derived from a naturally occurring adhesin, containing a binding domain that is capable of binding to an organic receptor and a binding domain that is capable of binding to a compound to which the naturally occurring adhesin protein substantially does not bind. The cells or modified adhesin proteins, optionally in immobilized form, are useful for separating organic and inorganic compounds including toxic or precious metals from an environment.

Abstract: A vertebrate animal, such as a human, is immunized with a bacterial host cell harboring a recombinant replicon which provides a stochastically expressed cell killing function whereby the cells are biologically contained. The replicon also comprises a gene encoding an antigen which is to be displayed on the outer surface of the host cell, so that it can elicit an immune response from the immunized animal. This antigen comprises one or more epitopes from a pathogenic agent.

Abstract: A replicon, in which a nucleotide sequence encoding a cell killing function is regulatably expressed when the replicon is harbored in one type of host cell (primary host cell), so that cells harboring the replicon are killed under conditions under which the cell killing function is expressed, and the nucleotide sequence encoding the cell killing function is regulatably or constitutively expressed when the replicon is harbored in another type of host cell (secondary host cell), so that cells harboring the replicon are invariably killed or killed under conditions under which the cell killing function is expressed, may be used in a method of active biological containment of cells under defined environmental conditions. The biological containment principle may be utilized in the industrial production of a biosynthetic product by recombinant DNA techniques, when deliberately releasing a genetically engineered microorganism to the natural environment or in the preparation of a live vaccine.

Abstract: A replicon, in which a nucleotide sequence encoding a cell killing function is regulatably expressed when the replicon is harboured in one type of host cell (primary host cell), so that cells harbouring the replicon are killed under conditions under which the cell killing function is expressed, and the nucleotide sequence encoding the cell killing function is regulatably or constitutively expressed when the replicon is harboured in another type of host cell (secondary host cell), so that cells harbouring the replicon are invariably killed or killed under conditions under which the cell killing function is expressed, may be used in a method of active biological containment of cells under defined environmental conditions.The biological containment principle may be utilized in the industrial production of a biosynthetic product by recombinant DNA techniques, when deliberately releasing a genetically engineered microorganism to the natural environment or in the preparation of a live vaccine.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Solidago plant named ‘KLESH06001’, characterized by its upright plant habit; freely branching growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; pyramidal spray formation; and inflorescences with light yellow-colored ray florets.

Abstract: A new Solidago plant particularly distinguished by having a white ray floret color and early flowering is disclosed.