Plant extracts are one of the important topics that researchers have been interested in all periods, with their great importance and entry into a variety fields. The aim this research is to identify percentages plant obtained from leaves each olives, Prosopis juliflora Mirabilis jalapa Linn (Lala Abbas), as plants were extracted by two different methods: extraction using Soxhlet device macerati...

Spatial variation in host plant availability may lead to specialization in host use and local host adaptation in herbivorous insects, which may involve a cost in performance on other hosts. We studied two geographically separated populations of the seed beetle Megacerus eulophus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in central Chile: a population from the host Convolvulus chilensis (in Aucó) and a population...

Finding alternative feeds, such as sesame hulls and Prosopis juliflora species can attenuate difficulties of feed shortage and reduce the cost of animal feed in arid and semi-arid countries. Thirty-two Black male kids with similar initial weights (BW = 16.7±0.80 kg) and 120±5 d of age, were used to evaluate the effect of replacing barley grains and soybean meal with Prosopis juliflora pods (PJP...