JIAN LONG LI, PETER JÄGER & JIE LIU 1Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment in the Tropics, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Drinkable Plants Institute (Tea Research Center), Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China 2Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60...

1 West African Centre for Crop Improvement, College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, University of Ghana, P. M. B. LG 30, Legon, Ghana. 2 CSIR-Crops Research Institute, P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana. 3 Deparment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia. 4 CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, P. O....

Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center (M.T., K.-C.Y.) and Institute of Earth Sciences (S.-C.Y., D.-C.L.), Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan; Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Chung-Hsing University, Taipei 115, Taiwan (M.T., K.-C.Y.); and Graduate Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Life Sciences, ...

1 Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils, Provincial Key Laboratory of Agrobiology, Institute of Agro-Biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China 2Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology & Bioresources Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yantai 264003, China 3Cancer and Genetics Research C...

Kumar U, Joshi AK, Kumar S, Chand R and Röder MS Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 India; Department of Biotechnology, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India; Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu Univers...

*Correspondence: Yongqiang Zhang, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 South Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100081, China [email protected]; Guirong Wang, State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China...

Shi Zhong1, Huijuan Pan2, Leifa Fan2*, Guoying Lv2, Yongzhi Wu2, Binod Parmeswaran3, Ashok Pandey3 and Carlos Ricardo Soccol4 Institute of Sericulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CN-310021 Hangzhou, PR China Institute of Horticulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CN-310021 Hangzhou, PR China Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science a...

P. Singh,1* P.K. Aggarwal,2** V.S. Bhatia,3*** M.V.R. Murty,1**** M. Pala,4 T. Oweis,4***** B. Benli,4 K.P.C. Rao5****** and S.P. Wani1******* 1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi 110 012, India; 3National Research Centre for Soybean (NRCS), Khandwa Road, ...

South Africa's land policies have increased women's participation in agriculture, but limited information exists about their agricultural activities. We surveyed 911 women working on the Makhatini Flats in Northern KwaZulu-Natal in 2006, gathering data on demographics, agricultural activities, crop production and pesticide use in both irrigated and Dryland areas. Average age of participants was...

1) National Agricultural Research Center for the Western Region, WeNARC, NARO, 1-3-1 Senyu, Zentsuji, Kagawa 765-8508, Japan 2) National Institute of Crop Science, NICS, NARO, 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan 3) National Agricultural Research Center, NARC, NARO, 1-2-1, Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan 4) Present address: 1327 Ashiro Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima 771-2502, Jap...