Objective: This study was undertaken to identify the dietary sources of vitamin A and also to determine the consumption pattern of vitamin A in Aba South L.G.A. Methodology: A total number of one hundred and sixty-three households were selected. A random sampling technique was adopted. Questionnaire was designed to provide information on the socio-economic, food habits and food consumption patt...

Resistance of four brassica leafy vegetables: kale, Chinese cabbage, rape and Ethiopian mustard to cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) was studied in cage experiments at the Botswana College of Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana. A completely randomised design with cultivars as treatments and four replicates per treatment was used. One newly laid nymph was placed on each of the four potted p...

Cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is one of the most important leafy vegetables in world, and production concentrated Mediterranean Basin. Hydroponics has been successfully utilized for cultivation, which could contribute to diversification methods reduction water consumption excessive fertilization. We devised a low-cost procedure closed hydroponic cultivation easy phenotyping root shoot ...

abstract aims: elderlies are one of the vulnerable groups in the society that are increasing every day. senility is associated with disability and many chronic diseases. this study was performed to predict the self-efficacy and behavioral expectations in consumption of fruits and vegetables in elderly patients with functional constipation. instrument & methods: this cross-sectional study was pe...

today, the production of healthy and high quality seedlings is the main factors of success in growing vegetables such as tomato. hence, in order to investigate the effect of different levels of vermicompost and nitrogen on the growth parameters of tomato seedlings (lycopersicon esculentum mill. cv. rio grande), a factorial experiment was conducted in a randomized complete design with three repl...

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three Listeria monocytogenes isolates from fresh leaves collected in Nigeria, belonging to sequence types ST5 and ST155 (sublineages SL5 and SL155, respectively).

In this study, the effects of different types nethouses viz., NH1, NH2, and NH3, were investigated at research farm Olericulture Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) from Sep 2021 to Mar 2022 compared control (open field) in terms incidence white fly, aphid, leaf miners, mites, eggplant shoot fruit borer (ESFB). This study included six vegetables 1) Tomato, 2) Eggplant, 3...

This study presents unique data on concentrations of antiretroviral drugs, (abacavir, nevirapine, and efavirenz) in the root, leaf, fruit vegetables. The microwave-assisted extraction, solid-phase liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array detection were applied to assess drugs vegetable samples. analytical method showed high precision linearity (R2) greater than 0.99, acceptable, accu...