Background: Late Blight Disease, caused by the fungal pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is a major constraint of Irish potato production in Kenya. The disease can destroy a crop, causing up to 100% yield loss. Small scale holder farmers in Kisii County continuously grow Irish pot...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23617
Ijeoma Chekwube Chukwudi, Boniface Maduka Anene, Cornelius C. Chukwu, Ikenna Onyema Ezeh & Kenneth Ikejiofor Ogbu·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2016
Aim: The research was conducted to determine the clinico-haematological parameters and impacts of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccination and trypanocidal treatment in Trypanosoma congolense infected West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep. Methodology: Twenty (20) WAD sheep were gro...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23671
The introduction focuses on the history of the three key terms in this review: environmental science, development and sustainability. The other two sections are devoted to sustainability in environmental science and sustainability in development. The problem-solving interdiscipli...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23760
This paper provides evidences of the evolutionary pathway followed by one of the main groups of marine angiosperms, the Hydrocharitaceae. Current molecular data has confirmed the aquatic origin of these plants. The Hydrocharitaceae group has a cosmopolitan distribution and is wel...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/24354
Unraveling the complex nature of tissue interactions is essential to generate structural and functional diversity present among craniofacial muscles. There are various distinct skeletal muscles in craniofacial region, the development of which are closely co-ordinated with other c...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/24329
After potato tomato is the second major vegetable crop consumed all over the globe as raw and processed food. Due to its high demand its genetic improvement in respect to high yielding, disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance etc. has been done by several peoples through tra...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/22300
Background: Late Blight Disease, caused by the fungal pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is a major constraint of Irish potato production in Kenya. The disease can destroy a crop, causing up to 100% yield loss. Small scale holder farmers in Kisii County continuously grow Irish pot...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23616
Lim genes are developmentally regulated transcription factors involved in tissue specification and cell differentiation. Several Lim genes are present in the mammalian genome and each tissue expresses a unique pattern of Lim genes giving rise to the Lim code and it is believed th...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/24086
This paper advocates habitat conservation and ecological studies with special reference to the physico-chemical characteristics of Majidun stream. The aim of this study was to assess the potential impact of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) effluents on water quality of stream where f...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/22458
This work aimed to study the external morphology of black soldier fly (BSF) larvae Hermetia illucens (L. 1758) Hermetia illucens (Stratiomyidae: Diptera) bred under ideal conditions with a diet based on cow manure. Observations and illustrations were made using scanning electron...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/22973