The increasing numbers of cases of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria such as Vibrio species poses a major problem to the food and aquaculture industries, as most antibiotics are no longer effective in controlling pathogenic bacteria affecting these industries. Therefore, this study was carried out to assess the antibacterial potentials of crude aqueous and n-hexane extracts of the...

Termites cause major economic losses by destroying agricultural crop trees. This study aims to survey the arboreal tree termites in Komkom community of Oyigbo Niger Delta. The area was divided into 10 zones and 306 trees were examined for presence termite nests, hollow sounds mud tubes. Samples with its nest, hollow, tube cuttings collected from infested using metal spatula, sorted identified. ...

Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a key tropical crop and a member of the monocotyledonous family Arecaceae (Palmaceae). Few genes and related metabolic processes involved in coconut endosperm development have been investigated. In this study, a new member of the WRI1 gene family was isolated from coconut endosperm and was named CoWRI1. Its transcriptional activities and interactions with the acet...

In the present study, we investigated the in vitro anti-tumoral activities of fractions from aqueous extracts of the husk fiber of the typical A and common varieties of Cocos nucifera (Palmae). Cytotoxicity against leukemia cells was determined by the 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Cells (2 x 10(4)/well) were incubated with 0, 5, 50 or 500 microg/mL hi...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) has still one of the problem diseases in Indonesia. There increased dengue cases several parts Indonesia since January 2020 and midst COVID-19. Very little information about natural breeding sites Aedes especially phytotelmata such as Bambusa sp., Neoregelia spectabilis, Musa paradisiaca, Cocos nucifera. Other than physical factors plants, it is suspected that the...