The profiles of amylase activity, soluble sugars and proteins in unripe plantain (Musa paradisiaca) and for a comparison, unripe banana (Musa sapientum), from harvest to ripening were investigated to provide basic information about their nutritional status at the different stages...
Aims: To evaluate the effect of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on in vitro dry matter disappearance (IVDMD), gas production and ammonia-N formation of an alfalfa hay based diet using batch culture system. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Animal Science, between July 2011 and Augus...
Aims: Fasciolosis is a widely distributed disease affecting the lives of herbivorous animals and human. The causative agents are Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica. Snail Lymnaea acuminata is the intermediate host of Fasciola species. Sporocyst, redia and cercaria are the larval...
Aim: This study was undertaken to access the intestinal parasitic profile of food vendors in Minna Nigeria. Study Design: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Minna the capital of Niger state, North central Nigeria. Sample sizes were determined at random from the food ven...
Aim: To study the impact of training given to female farmers under the poultry extension women worker on the status of rural chicken production in Islamabad/Rawalpindi area. Study Design: The data were analyzed using General Linear Model procedures. The statistical model was cons...
Friedreich’s ataxia is a commonly inherited neurodegenerative disease with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, and was described by Nikolaus Friedreich first in 1863. Friedreich’s ataxia is caused due to hyperexpansion of the intronic GAA trinucleotide repeats or mutat...
Plant diversity and soil characteristics were studied along watershed environment in Ikot Uso Akpan Wildlife Sanctuary of Itu Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom state. The systematic sampling method was used to sample the vegetation in 10m x10m quadrats. Plants were identified to s...
Aims: The efficiency of Verticillium dahliae inoculum density (ID) on tolerant cotton Verticillium wilt in cotton growing of northern province of Iran (Golestan) and the influence of temperature (T) and relative humidity (RHA) on this relationship. Place and Duration of Study: In...
The growth and reproductive performance of epigeic earthworm Eisenia fetida in biofertilizers enriched flower waste vermicomposting was studied for 80 days in the laboratory. Six feeding compositions – Co-Flower waste (FW) alone; A- FW + Earthworms (E. fetida); B- FW+ EW + Azospi...
Aims: To ascertain the gastrointestinal nematode burden on the channids, Parachanna obscura and Parachanna africana (Steindachner, 1879) (Family: Channidae) in the down reaches of Orogodo River at Evboesi and Ekwuoma-Abavo, southern Nigeria and its relationship to the levels of o...