The study was a descriptive survey, designed to determine the graduates' perceptions of the diploma in agricultural education courses offered at the Botswana College of Agriculture. The specific objectives were to: (I) determine the perceived usefulness of the courses taught at the college for teaching agricultural science, (2) determine the perceptions of the graduates about the relevance of p...

Miranda Gilda Jonson, Sen Lian, Hong-Soo Choi, Gwan-Seok Lee, Chang-Suk Kim and Kook-Hyung Kim* 1Department of Biology, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights Quezon City 1108, Philippines 2Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National Universi...

1 Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China 2 Freshwater Aquaculture Collaborative Innovation Center of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei, China 3 Division of Fish Pathology, Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China 4 Key Lab of Freshwater Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, Hubei, Chin...

E. S. Good was born March 16, 1871, at Clarence City, NY. He moved at an early age with his family to Flint, MI. He grew up on the family farm, which specialized in Shorthorn cattle, Merino sheep, and Berkshire hogs. This experience influenced him to attend Michigan State Agricultural College and helped shape his career. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State Agricultura...

a School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, PR China b College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 1 Forestry Dr, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA c Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherla...

Erik Braudeau*, Gaghik Hovhannissian, Amjad T. Assi and Rabi H. Mohtar* 1 Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 2 Pédologie Hydrostructurale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement France Nord, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Bondy, France 3 Unité Mixte de Recherche 242, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, I...

Laboratory of Fruit Cell and Molecular Breeding, College of Agronomy and Bio-tech, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China (Z.W., D.M., TZ.L.); Research Institute of Pomology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xingcheng, Liaoning 125100, China (Z.W., S.J., P.C.); Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China (A.W., TL.L.); and Key Laboratory of Biology and Geneti...

YushengZhao,aShaojunXie,bXiaojieLi,aChunleiWang,aZhongzhouChen,bJinshengLai,b,c andZhizhongGonga,d,1 a State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China b State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China cNational Maize Improvement Center, Department of Pl...

Wei Huang, Evan Siemann, Gregory S. Wheeler, Jianwen Zou, Juli Carrillo and Jianqing Ding* Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Institute ⁄Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Ho...