The book in hand provide valuable information on Sugarcane varieties development/breeding, being an important sugar and cash crop of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, providing employment opportunity, gigantic amount of revenue and foreign exchange savings. Sugarcane (Sacharum officinarum L. )"honey without the help of bees" is one of the important sugar crop of Pakistan. It is cultivated on 11 m ha every year on the World level, produced 850 m tons of cane and productivity of 51 metric tons ha-1. In Pakistan it is grown in three distinct climatic zones i.e. the temperate Peshawar valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sub tropical Punjab, and tropical Sindh. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it was grown since the Mogul period. The book can be an asset for the researchers, planner and agriculture students. It should in each and every library around the country.

HCV, a major cause of liver disease worldwide, is frequently resistant to the antiviral interferon- therapy, being the only approved treatment available. It has been investigated recently that interleukin-8 (IL-8) induced by HCV partially inhibit the IFN- therapy. Therefore we aimed to prospectively utilize the baseline IL-8 levels in the HCV infected serum and predict its role in sustained virological response (SVR) to IFN- + ribavirin therapy, in chronic HCV patients. Fifteen normal volunteers and 110 HCV patients were enrolled in this study. Their baseline IL-8 levels were determined by ELISA and pre & post-treatment viral loads were recorded using qPCR. Different response rates to the therapy were observed and significant correlation was found between baseline IL-8 level and response to IFN therapy (P