Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (K.B., Y.P., Y.Wa., P.W.S., Y.We.); Horticulture College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China (K.B., J.C.); Horticulture College, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China (H.W., Y.P., Y.L.); Division of Vegetable Science, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 10012, India (T.K.B.); ...

William S. Conway a,∗, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz b, Britta Leverentz a, Robert A. Saftner a, Mary J. Camp c a Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, United States b Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agric...

Introduction Analyzing the evolution of agricultural research and development policy in South Africa is a fascinating but difficult task, primarily because of the large number of structural, institutional, and political changes that took place during the 20th century. This chapter tracks the history of South Africa's agricultural research and development system against this background, highligh...

sepahan is a new bread wheat cultivar derived from progenies of a cross made between azadi cultivar and some high yielding and resistant to rust advanced lines. all selections were made in kelardasht and iranshahr stations and early evaluations in karaj. it was also studied in regional uniform yield trials in moderate stations including kaboutar abad. results revealed that this line is more tol...

The relationships between agricultural science, invention, production and consumption are conventionally considered in a hierarchical model with consumption at the basis and science at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. Two important shortcomings of that model as a basis for organizing and managing agricultural research are identified. First, the model does not specify how the direction and intensi...

The scientific research institute is an knowledge concentrated organization which works for knowledge innovation. Due to the variety of understandings, people define the knowledge management differently. This thesis analyzes the research background, necessity, contents and range of knowledge management in agricultural scientific research institutionT the authors put forward the point that the c...

1Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93648; 2formerly Research soil scientist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, currently Extension specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and 3formerly Agricultural engineer, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center...

Research in my laboratory focuses on developing new microbial processes for adding functionality groups to plant lipids or their component fatty acids to produce value-added food and industrial products. The goal is to develop new products from surplus soybean oil or its component fatty acids through bioprocesses. Oxygenated fatty acids such as hydroxy-, keto-, epoxy-, and cyclic fatty acids ar...

Molecular Systematics and Taxonomy of Yeasts Current research in my laboratory focuses on characterizing the phylogenetic diversity of ascomycetous yeasts and developing molecular tools for rapid strain identification and prediction of agriculturally and biotechnologically significant properties of those species. Yeasts are nearly ubiquitous in nature and are essential for the production of num...

1 Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2 United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Research Unit, Gainesville, FL, USA 3 Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA 4 United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Res...