Plant species are experiencing increasing challenges from climate change. Climate change is a serious threat to plant genetic diversity and the survival of many plant species which may substantially alter biodiversity. Crop wild relatives contribute many valuable genes for improv...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14094
Nano-structural characterizations of solid hydrocarbons were explained during their formation by the laser ablation technique and during the heat treatment. For the hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC), these characterizations cover the hydrogen content, the sp3 and sp2 hybridizat...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/13453
Fernando Rodrigo Bortolozo, Nerilde Favaretto, Jeferson Dieckow, Anibal de Moraes, Fabiane Machado Vezzani & Éder David Borges da Silva·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2014
Vegetative filter strips (VFS) are areas adjacent to watercourses with the purpose of reducing sediment and nutrients contained within runoff water from cropland. The aim of this study was to evaluate the retention of water, sediment and nutrients in VFSs with 5, 10, 20 and 30 m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13788
Phyto-sociological studies were conducted in Bajrabarahi and Pashupati Sacred Groves of Kathmandu, Nepal for the comparative analysis of tree species diversity in the year 2012-2013. Concentric circular plots with radius of 20m were used to collect necessary information along fou...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13350
The quantity and quality of organic amendments play vital role in changing or amending the soil physical properties and crop yield. The improvement in soil physical properties and crop growth is well correlated with the organic carbon status of soil. The behavior of carbon suppli...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13475
Aims: The main aim of this study was to find out the optimum plant density of onion for intercropping with coriander for higher productivity and economic return. Study Design: The experiment was arranged following randomized complete block design with three replications. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12600
Aims: To determine the effect of trellising methods of determinate tomato varieties on fruit diameter, number of fruits per plant, marketable and total yields. Study Design: A 3 x 4 factorial experiment in Randomized Complete Block Design with 3 replications was used Place and Du...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13070
An investigation of the heavy metal contents in road dust is vital in assessing the potential environmental impacts of vehicular emissions on the soil. In this study, dust samples were collected from Jos metropolis and were analysed for heavy metals (Pb, Zn, Mn, Cu, Co, Cd and Fe...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/14150
In this paper, we study existence, and the asymptotic behavior, with respect to λ , of positive radially symmetric solutions of −ΔΡu = λh(x; u) in annular domains in RN;N ≥ 2. The nonlinear term has a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13254
Various genome evolutionary models have been proposed these last decades to predict the evolution of a DNA sequence over time, essentially described using a mutation matrix. By essence, all of these models relate the evolution of DNA sequences to the computation of the successive...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14280
Aims: To provide an alternative definition for subset Sarima modeling and demonstrate it by application to monthly internally generated revenue of Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Study Design: The study design is theoretical as well as empirical....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14305
Background: Abdominal pregnancy is a rare condition and potentially life-threatening if not diagnosed early and treated adequately. It has a high maternal and foetal mortality. Two cases of abdominal pregnancy are discussed. Both occurred in mothers aged 35 yrs and were managed a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13995
To estimate the effect of aging on the mobility of heavy metals in soil, relationships between mobility of metals in soil and time after contamination were investigated. Copper, nickel and zinc were added as chloride solution to soil sample. Citrus peel as soil amendments was use...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11512
Objective: To evaluate the antioxidant and organ protective activities Crossopteryx febrifuga Benth, in male albino rats. Methods: Animals were intraperitoneally pretreated with the methanolic extract of the leaf at 10mg/kg dose before intoxication with CCl4 (0.6mL/Kg). The hepat...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/13286
Background: High cost of fishmeal (FM) adversely affects growth performance of African catfish fingerlings. There is need for alternative ingredients from affordable and available sources like plant proteins to meet growing feed demands in the larviculture of African catfish. Bam...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/12886