The article provides for the possible exclusion from patentability of certain innovations in order to protect human, animal or plant life or health other than micro organisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals other than non biological and microbiological processes.

(d) Lack of an effective economic system to guarantee the microbiological purity of certain animal and vegetable raw materials such as milk, cereals, etc.

The need for a diverse genetic pool of plant, animal and microbial germ plasm for sustainable development is well established.

Even the smallest soil sample contains billions of micro organisms, of which microbiologists will have characterized less than 5 per cent.

Kuwait provides as evidence of damage to recreational resources, photographs of mines and barbed wire used as part of the coastal defences as well as photographs of damaged yacht club facilities.

But we've also discovered, when it comes to plants, in plants, as much as we understand and are starting to understand their genomes, it is the ecosystem around them, it is the microbes that live in their root systems, that have just as much impact on the character of those plants as the metabolic pathways of the plants themselves.

This sediment is 100 percent made up of the shells of microscopic plants.

(3) foods that contain pathogenic parasites, microorganisms or an amount of microbial toxin exceeding the tolerance prescribed by the State

We'd have a water treatment system treating wastewater, turning that into fresh water and generating energy from the solids using just plants and micro organisms.

There are epiphytes, plants that grow on trees.

The entries in these lists encompass many micro organisms with low human pathogenicity, most animal and plant pathogens and a variety of simulants.

(d) Bio ecology obtaining highly effective strains of micro organisms for producing biodegradable preparations of petroleum, organophosphorous substances, means of protecting plant life and exopolysaccharides used in the oil industry

(k) Biorisk study of the influence of the microflora in the Station's living modules on various materials used in space technology

Iran further states that these compounds will not only harm plant growth but will also disturb soil microbiology, killing many micro organisms (such as Rhizobium and Mycorrhizae) and that this will result in lower soil fertility and reduced sustainability in crop production.

True land plants arose, leafless at first.

The propagation of the plants was a use notwithstanding that plants were living things that grew by themselves.

The physiology of plants.

1. Space Plant Biology

f. For China's national legal framework and enforcement measures with regard to securing the transport of biological weapons and related materials, see the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Animals and Plants Brought Into or Taken Out of Chinese Territory and the General Biosafety Standard for Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories.

So you have this little algal forest, and in the size of a laptop you can find more than 100 species of algae, mostly microscopic fit hundreds of species of little animals that then feed the fish, so that the system recovers.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

SeaWiFS, scheduled for launch in 1995, is designed to provide global observations of photosynthetic pigment concentrations contained in the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton.

Investigations on animals and plants exhibited the effects of microgravity and radiation on growth patterns, genetic material, bone development, cell differentiation and reproduction, and the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Capacity building in the life sciences Regional Network for Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology

But my passion in addition to Jack and my children are the plants, the so called epiphytes, those plants that grow up on trees.

That's what plants actually do for a living.

Is this what the epiphytics root in?

And those are the dry land species.

We now understand that those microbes have more impact on our climate and regulating CO2 and oxygen than plants do, which we always thought oxygenate the atmosphere.

In most developed countries, patents are now issued for micro organisms, genetically modified plants and animals, and isolated and purified genes and genetic sequences.

My specialty is the physiology of the plants.

Hyperspectral imaging has been used as a tool to monitor the plant stress induced in plants that naturally bio accumulate certain chemical species.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

Accordingly, the Codex Alimentarius Commission5 has adopted principles for risk analysis of such substances in general, as well as guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant DNA plants and from recombinant DNA micro organisms.

The Convention broadly defines genetic material as any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity and genetic resources as genetic material of actual or potential value (art. 2).

What determines the types and distributions of microbes indoors?

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is the competent authority for the adoption of measures to monitor and carry out health policies at border crossings and control the peaceful uses of micro organisms and production of animal and or plant vaccines.

The application of a holistic ecosystem approach in which plants, animals, micro organisms and human beings functioned as one unit provided a framework for an integrated approach to the achievement of sustainable development objectives.

DHAKA We humans do not only share the planet with a range of other species, including plants, animals, and even microbes we also depend on them for our survival. Can we determine the economic value of protecting the natural world?

Plant stress this is a measure of the variation in chlorophyll content in living plants, in response to pollutants.

And then we're ready to add the living organism.

Protect human life or health or animal life or health (sanitary regulation) Protect plant health (phytosanitary regulation) Protect the environment and wildlife Ensure human safety Ensure national security Prevent deceptive and unfair practices.

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) patterns of genetic diversity in wild forage species in situ conservation in the Sahel region to monitor vegetation change over years strategies for in situ conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources in desert prone areas of Africa in situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity.

Under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization, members of the Organization may take measures to protect human and animal health and plant life from food borne diseases and plant pests, provided that the threat is scientifically evident and the measures are not discriminatory.

What damage does it actually inflict on the plant?