Background: Though sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is one of the internationally as well nationally important root crops. Its production challenged with various bottlenecks. Lack planting materials, shortage farmer preferred varieties, poor extension system among many other constraints. This study was conducted to assess performance and test different orange fleshed varieties in participatory...

You must have surely seen that our good friend Dr C. Quince, has been given yet another huge grant from The Thanatology Foundation for a large project to find human genes for avarice and venality. The factories keep on multiplying and growing and I hope you are never tempted to acquire a dark, satanic mill of your own and join the band of new alchemists who turn gold into base pairs. Some histo...

There have long been concerns that their introduction to veterinary medicine (in 1993 in the UK, and earlier in some EU countries) might undermine their effectiveness in human medicine. As a result, in 1998, a report on antimicrobial resistance published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee recommended that fluoroquinolones no longer be permitted for mass medication in farm an...