Even when studying agriculture in South Africa, he had been attracted by the science of crop protection, and his Ph.D. research on electron transport in photosynthesis was highly relevant to the industry: "Herbicides are specifically developed to work against the photosynthetic apparatus," he explains.
A supporter of small family farms and of organic and ecological-based farming systems, Dr. Valenzuela has raised questions about the safety and science of crop biotechnology.
The reason for this narration is to make a point for the need to offer an agriculture education programme that does not look at the science of growing crops in isloation but rather exposes the student to all the areas connected and concerned with the science of growing food and its consumption.
Referring to Roundup herbicide by its generic name, Mark J. VanGessel, an associate professor of crop science at the University of Delaware, said, "With the advent of Roundup Ready crops, all we're using is glyphosate".
Dr Giles Budge, head of crop science at Fera, said: "Our analyses suggest that honeybee colonies are being lost due to a range of pressures including imidacloprid usage, regional factors, adverse weather and... pests and diseases.
According to Tim Wheeler, professor of crop science at the University of Reading, who is both deputy director of the Centre for Food Security and deputy chief scientific adviser for the British government's Department for International Development, it's only very recently that the debate's opposite parties have finally started talking.
I left traditional fields of crop science in favor of energy-crop production for several reasons.
For the past 15 years I have worked in the field of crop science at the University of Kassel.
The authors would like to acknowledge all the staff of the laboratory of Department of crop science, Faculty of Agriculture and Laboratory of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia for providing the research facilities in order to accomplish this work.
These journals are also listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge, along with three other UPLB-published journals: the Philippine Entomologist, Philippine Journal of Crop Science, and Asia Life Sciences.
In order to cover all important domains of crop science, nine subclasses were created in the CO (Table 1).
