Production of legumes for purposes of obtaining biomass is often restricted to seasons that are less optimum for economic crops, thus limiting the possibility of accumulating substantial biomass. A three and half-year study was conducted at Egerton University, Kenya, with the aim...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8309
Aims: To investigate the influence of upland rice cultivar and dry season sorghum planting date on crop yield under rainfed double cropping systems as an option to increase cereal production for food security and income generation to farmers. Study Design: The experimental design...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9564
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of different watering regimes on selected coffee genotypes and to evaluate drought tolerance among selected coffee genotypes. The study also aimed at determining the optimum watering interval for these genotypes under high t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9187
Aims: The aim of this work was to determine the nutritional quality of kununzaki enriched with moringa seed flour. Study Design: Analyses of variance (ANOVA). Place and Duration of Study: Department of Food Science and Technology, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Nigeria, between Ju...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9841
Aims: To evaluate the effect of fungicide regimes and application timing on pod rot incidence, peanut yield, grades, and diseased kernels. Study Design: Randomized complete block design with nine treatments and four replicates. Place and Duration of Study: Studies were conducted...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8769
Mean contents of fructose, glucose, raffinose, stachyose, sucrose, and total sugars in whole sesame seed, produced during 2011 and 2012 in mid-Atlantic region of the United States of America, were 0.95, 1.28, 2.22, 0.14, 0.82, and 5.39 g/100g meal, respectively. Planting time ef...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8999
Aims: To determine the effect of pollinators and how they affect the reproductive performance of okra cultivated in the forest region of Ghana. Study Design: The experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three treatment and three replications. Pla...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/7472
Aims: This study was carried out to assess the contents of total phenolics, flavonoids, condensed tannins, saponins and alkaloids in Telfairia occidentalis and Amaranthus caudatus leaves. Study Design: The experiment employed a 2×2×5 factorial design. Place and Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/1082
The main objective of this investigation was to assess the toxicity and growth regulating potential of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.), neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) and argel plant, (Solenostemma argel Hayne) against the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria. The effect on fecu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/4855
A 42 day feeding trial of graded administration of aqueous extract of Alchornea cordifolia leaf meal (ACLM) infusion on the body weights and internal organs of forty eight male albino rats (Wistar strain) weighing 131.60±6.79-139.20±6.03g, divided into 4 groups and three replicat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8855
Aim: To examine the response of cotton varieties with varying reactions to Verticillium dahliae to nitrogen. Study Design: The experimental design was a randomized complete block in a split-plot arrangement with four replications. Nitrogen rate served as whole plots and cotton va...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8919
Aims: The characterization and the estimation of genetic variability between accessions belonging to Citrusgenus using the SSR markers. Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Molecular Genetic, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria, between August 2011...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8682
In this study 312 Microsatellite markers were used to analyze DNA polymorphism of three Egyptian wheat aiming to develop specific molecular markers useful in future Egyptian wheat breeding programs. DNA was extracted using the CTAB method and PCR products were separated in an ABI...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9235
The study assessed the impact of modern farming technologies on the productivity and food security in the rice terraces. The study covered four rice terraces clusters located in four provinces in the Cordillera region in the northern central part of the Philippines. The sites cov...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9202
Aims: This work has the objective of studying the effect of nitrogen fertilization on olive yield, oil content and quality. Study Design: Randomized complete block design with four nitrogen fertilizer treatments and eight replications. Each individual plot consisted of four trees...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8719