Thielaviopsis basicola is a soil-borne fungal pathogen with a wide host range and a cosmopolitan distribution. It causes disease on many agricultural crops, and in South Africa is the causal agent of black pod rot of groundnuts and black root rot on chicory. Knowledge of the population diversity of T. basicola could provide valuable information regarding management strategies, the possible move...

The focus of the review paper is to discuss how biotechnological innovations are opening new frontiers to mitigate nutrition in key agricultural crops with potential for large-scale health impact to people in Africa. The general objective of the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project is to develop and deploy sorghum with enhanced pro-vitamin A to farmers and end-users in Africa to alleviate ...

Antifeedant and Insecticidal Activity of Quassinoids against the Diamondback Moth (Pintella rylostella) and Structure-Activity Relationships Masayuki DAiDo, Nobuhiro OHNo, Kazunori IMAMuRA, Narihiko FuKAMiyA, Makoto HATAKosHi," Hiroko YAMAzAKi,' Kiyoshi TAGAHARA,'" Kuo-Hsiung LEE,"** and Masayoshi OKANot Department of lhterdisciplinary Studies on Natural Ehvironment, Fbculty of lhtegrated Arts ...

BACKGROUND Nigeria has suffered from several healthcare workers' strikes in the past 36 months, involving all categories of health workers. Frequent healthcare workers' strikes result in the closure of public healthcare institutions preventing Nigerians' access to quality health services. The purpose of this study was to identify the root cause(s) of strikes by healthcare workers, their effects...

This paper presents a novel approach to classify agricultural crops using NDVI time series. The novelty lies in i) extracting a set of features from the each and every NDVI curve, and ii) using them to train a crop classification model using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Specifically, we use the TIMESAT program package to: 1) smooth the time series, 2) decompose them into agricultural seasons...

A reanalysis of results from a recent paper on the effect of oscillation on gas exchange through leaves of cottonwood (Populus deltoides, Marsh) is presented. Mass flow of air through the leaf cannot account for the observed increase in gas exchange during oscillation in that experiment. Consideration of various published data shows that in the field, mass flow will not constitute more than a f...

In the Workers' Compensation Insurance (WCI) system in Korea, occupational diseases (ODs) are approved through deliberation meetings of the Committee on Occupational Disease Judgment (CODJ) after disease investigations when workers or medical institutions requested the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (COMWEL) for medical care benefits. Insufficient data presented by employers or...

SIGNIFICANT developments in nutrition in the United States began early in the last quarter of the 19th century. This review covers the subsequent period of approximately 50 years. The developments followed much earlier ones . in Europe, which provided background and guidance. The story is an account of the accomplishments of scientists, most of whom were initially trained as agricultural chemis...

Food losses in field and store 5 cause outstanding losses in many crops. Because there are few trained nematologists, many other important nematode problems on key food crops such as rice and paddy remain uninvestigated. Because nematodes are soil organisms, control is especially difficult. Few satisfactory nematicides are known and these are too expensive for most agricultural crops in Europe....

Background: Even after following the multi-strategy approach of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in India for the last four decades, reducing malnutrition among children below 6 years has turned out to be a herculean task, because of the poor focus by Anganwadi workers (AWWs) on empowering community to manage malnutrition among the children at home level. Therefore, it becomes neces...