Aims: To determine the growth gain and cost benefit of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats fed diets containing white rot fungi (Pleurotus tuber-regium) biodegraded cassava peels based diets. Study Design: Completely randomized designed experiment. Place and Duration of Study: The stu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17417
Aim: To estimate the nature and magnitude of GEI interaction for oil content in sesame varieties and to identify stable and promising varieties for general and specific adaptations across the areas of the Awash valleys in Ethiopia. Study Design: Entries were planted in a randomiz...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/18482
Late and non-uniform emergence of rootstock seeds affect grafting efficiency in cucurbit species. As seeds age, (vigor decreases) they emerge later and the time to get graftable stage becomes longer. Therefore determination of emergence potential of a seed lot before sowing is cr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/19553
Aims: The study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of pyramided genes in improving angular leaf spot (ALS) resistance in susceptible common bean cultivars. Study Design: The experiment was set in randomized block design with three replications. Place and Duration of St...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17833
Pot experiments were carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm and in the green house of Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro Tanzania in 2014 and 2015 wet seasons to determine the effects of different levels of organic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/19164
Effects of salic conditions on soil properties under a given land use type and the methods for reclamation has not received the desired research attention in Nigeria. Understanding of how soil properties and crop yield respond to the influence of salic conditions is needed for em...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17187
Potassium is exported in large amounts through grain harvest and this, together with the low availability of potassium in Brazilian soils, leads to an evident need for restoration of this nutrient. When the application rates of potassium are greater than 50 kg.ha-1, the most effe...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/19435
Aims: Variability of wheat kernel size and color as well as the content of selected phytochemicals in wheat grain under the impact of selected biological and fungicide crop protection agents was investigated. Study Design: A randomized block method in quadruplicate. Plants spraye...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/18819
A study was conducted in 2011 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana to evaluate the effect of different levels of nitrogen in liquid fertilizer on the population dynamics and within plant distribution of Aphis gossypii (Glover) and Thrips palmi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17715
Louise Nana Wakam, Alvine Pokaa Nanhou, Raymond Fokom, Severin Nguemezi Tchameni, Eddy Leonard Mangaptché Ngonkeu, Pierre Eke, Jean Kuate & Francois-Xavier Etoa·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2015
The effects of two nitrogen levels and AM fungi inoculation on nutrient assimilation and some biochemical compounds of two Zea mays varieties were studied. Plants varieties (CMS8704 and POP66RS) were grown in pots with two nitrogen levels and AM fungi inoculation for 82 days. Pla...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/18088
Actually, a prodigious interest resides with the improvement and the use of particular biocontrol agent for the control of disease on plants. Our objective was to prepare an alternatives fungicide oil-in-water emulsion of eucalyptus oil and check shelf life stability by measuring...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/18262
Sixteen West African Dwarf (WAD) goats of about 6 - 8 months of age, having an average weight of 6.79 kg were used in a completely randomised design to evaluate the haematology and serum biochemistry of WAD goats fed diets containing graded levels of sweet orange peel meal (SOPM)...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11313
This experiment is carried out on Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), Spanish class (Viki) in one of the fields for the period from 05/03/2013 until 18/06/2013, where the shoots are sprayed after period of 65 days of its cultivation with 25 and 50 ml/l of nanosilver, 0.75 and 1.5 g...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17898
We investigated the potential and capability of GIS as a technique for integrating spatial and biophysical attribute data to produce land suitability maps of the main industrial irrigated cropland (cotton, groundnut, and sesame) cultivated in the Abyan, Yemen Delta, In order to i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16572
Experiments were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of essential oils extracted from Chenopodium ambrosioides (L.), Rosmarinus officinalis (L.), Eucalyptus globulus (Labill), Trachyspermum ammi (Sprague) and Cymbopogon citratus (Stapf) against Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman) (Col...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16761