About ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.In the context of Japan, Red Sonja neighborhood voluntary civic associations (NVCA) play significant roles in communicating, sharing, and building consensus at grassroots level in Japan, though it is unclear what are the elements for the successful engagement of disaster
Transgene Flow: Challenges to the On-Farm Conservation of Maize Landraces in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region
Brazil is one of the largest global producers of genetically modified crops and a center of origin and diversification of relevant species for agriculture and food.Transgenic monocultures occupy around 50 million hectares, whereas smallholder farmers, indigenous people, and traditional communities are responsible for in-situ/on-Farm conservation of
Genetic diversity of Pantoea stewartii subspecies stewartii causing jackfruit-bronzing disease in Malaysia.
Jackfruit-bronzing is caused by bacteria Pantoea stewartii subspecies stewartii (P.stewartii subsp.stewartii), showing symptoms of yellowish-orange to reddish discolouration and rusty specks on pulps and rags of jackfruit.Twenty-eight pure bacterial strains were collected from four different jackfruit outbreak collection areas in Peninsular Malaysi