The basic diversity data of landraces has been found important to monitor the dynamics of crop genetic resource management. The diversity data generated in time and space have been valuable to communtities, scientists and policy managers to formulate and implement conservation strategies of in situ, on-farm as well as ex situ conservation and management of genetic resources. In this paper, we d...

The Gram-positive genus Clavibacter harbors economically important plant pathogens infecting a variety of agricultural crops, such as potato, tomato, corn, barley, etc. Here, we report five new genome sequences, those of strains CFIA-Cs3N, CFIA-CsR14, LMG 3663T, LMG 7333T, and ATCC 33566T, from different subspecies of Clavibacter michiganensis All these genomic data will be used for reclassific...

There is evidence that pollinators are declining as a result of local and global environmental degradation [1-4]. Because a sizable proportion of the human diet depends directly or indirectly on animal pollination [5], the issue of how decreases in pollinator stocks could affect global crop production is of paramount importance [6-8]. Using the extensive FAO data set [9], we compared 45 year se...

We investigated the prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors in children living in urban Ghana. Malaria prevalence was associated with low hemoglobin concentration, low socioeconomic status, and higher age. Our findings indicate that African urban poor are seriously affected by malaria and that irrigated agriculture may increase this risk.

1 Ginseng & Medicinal Crops Division, National Institute of Crop Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-100, Republic of Korea; 2 Kohwang Medical Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea; 3 Department of Psychiatry, East-West Neo Medical Center, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 134-727...

microRNAs(miRNAs) play critical regulatory roles mainly through cleaving targeted mRNAs or repressing gene translation during plant developments.Grapevine is amongst the most economically important fruit crops with whole genome available, and the study on grapevine miRNAs(Vv-miRNAs) have also been emphasized. mieroRNAs(miRNAs)Play eritieal regulatory roles mainly through eleaving targeted mRNAs...

The following information was missing from the funding section: BBSRC, DEFRA, NERC, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Insect Pollinators Initiative crops project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Figures 1a, 1b and 1c are in the wrong order. Here are the corrected Figures 1a, 1b ...

The agricultural production system in Sri Lanka consists of two traditional and well-defined components. One is the plantation section, established during the colonial period, consisting of large units, and producing perennial crops such as coffee, tea, rubber, and coconut mainly for export. The other is the smallholder sector comprised of small farms which produce most of the country’s rice, v...