From the Editor

Global warming causes not only climate change but also increases drought prone area, reduces crop production through yield loss and storage damage.  It is an interesting issue for scientists in many countries.  We can reduce global warming variously, especially by reducing energy used in our daily life.  In agriculture, pesticide spraying for control pests has been reduced by an appropriate management including using crop varieties resistant to pests.  In modern crop production technology, genetically modified crops have play an important role; for example, cotton genetically modified to resistant to boll worm has been utilized successfully by farmers to reduce toxic insecticide spraying, health problem due to toxicity and environment pollution as well.  

 

In this issue, there are three articles on breeding and physiology of corn involving drought tolerance.  Two articles on reducing crop loss from fungus during storage.  One article on high oil maize breeding and one article on reducing durian odor during storage.

 

 

Teerasak  Manupeerapan

Editor

(teerasakm21@hotmail.com)