In 1985 over 22 percent of all secondary agricultural education instructors taught one or more junior high/middle school courses in agriculture (Phipps & Osborne, 1988). This effort has occurred and will continue in middle grade agricultural education programs in an effort to provide early exposure to the world of agriculture and to increase self understanding in the preparation for careers. It...

1Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 2Laboratory for Cellular Systems Modeling, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan 3Laboratory of Environmental Biochemistry, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 4Gene Expression...

The W. K. Kellogg Foundation (1984) reported that there were few issues of greater importance to the world than adequate food supplies, proper food use, and the knowledge of the components of the agricultural industry. Yet according to a study conducted by the Kansas State Center for Extended Services and Studies, less than 30% of 2000 elementary, junior, and senior high students surveyed gave ...

NOTE Internal Medicine The first report of the ante-mortem diagnosis of Ollulanus tricuspis infection in two dogs Daiki KATO1), Mariko OISHI1), Koichi OHNO1)*, Ko NAKASHIMA1), Atsuhito WADA1), Tatsushi MORITA2), Soichi IMAI2), Masaya TSUBOI3), James K. CHAMBERS3), Kazuyuki UCHIDA3) and Hajime TSUJIMOTO1)1)Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Scien...

Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India Department of Life Sciences, SGRR Institute of Technology and Science, Dehradun, India School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Akal School of Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh 173101, India Department of Plant Protection, Co...

Department of Entomology and Nematology, Department of Plant Sciences, and Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Phytokoy St....

1 Burie Agricultural College, P.O. Box Rissneleden 19, Sundbyberg, 17453 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI), P.O. Box 527, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 3 School of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Science, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 4 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 95076...

Athanasios Theocharopoulos1, Stamatis Aggelopoulos1, Panoraia Papanagiotou2, Katerina Melfou3 and Evangelos Papanagiotou2 1Department of Agricultural Development and Agribusiness Management, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki 2Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 3Department of Agricultural Products Marketin...

a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA b U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 14th and Independence S.W., Washington, DC 20250, USA c Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, School of Agricultural Science, University...

1 The State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. of China. 2 College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. of China. 3 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, P. R. of ...