The effects of the type of grass silage and dietary inclusion of fish oil (FO) on the fatty acid profile of bovine intramuscular and subcutaneous adipose tissue were investigated. Eighty Friesian steers were assigned (n 10) to unwilted or wilted silage, and to one of four rations which contained, per kg, 80 g of sunflower oil and either 0, 10, 20 or 40 g of FO replacing lard. Animals were slaug...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L:) usually grown as a source of oil can be also used as fodder either for hay or ensiling purposes, particularly in semiarid regions. In 2002-2003 a research project was carried out in Southern Italy to evaluate the production and forage quality of safflower biomass cv Centennial (high oleic), harvested at three different stage: May 14 (at complete appearance of...

Hydrological modeling for landscape and catchment scale applications requires upscaling of soil hydraulic parameters which are generally only available at point scale. We present a case study where hourly root zone water content drainage observations from nine flat, pastoral sites (Waikato Canterbury regions in New Zealand) were used to develop an approach parameterize the balance module TopNet...

Verticillium wilt is a vascular disease of cotton. The causal fungus, Verticillium dahliae, secretes elicitors in culture. We have generated approximately 1,000 5'-terminal expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from a cultured mycelium of V. dahliae. A number of ESTs were found to encode proteins harboring putative signal peptides for secretion, and their cDNAs were isolated. Heterologous expression l...

Abstract The effect of milorganite, a commercially available organic soil amendment, on nutrients, plant growth, and yield has been investigated. However, its hydraulic properties remains less understood. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the milorganite amendment evaporation, moisture retention, conductivity, electrical conductivity Krome soil. A column experiment was conducted with t...

Purpose is to evaluate the plant breeding material of alfalfa by indices water metabolism in different conditions humidification, determine patterns their manifestation, correlation ties between them and drought tolerance, point out best for introduction into process. Methods. Field, laboratory, statistical. Results. During 2017–2020, 9 populations were studied regime: content tissues, deficit ...

One of most important problems in soil thermodynamics is related to soil water hysteresis , which arises mainly from differences in the processes of emptying and filling individual pores during wetting and drying. In a minesoil coming from excavations, amended with six different types of sewage sludge (composted or thermally dried), it was observed that the critical point (c, wc) that separate...

Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris is one of the most wide spread disease of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Studies indicated two major independent loci H1 and H2 determine the resistance to race-1 in chickpea. The dominant alleles at both H1 and H2 loci result in susceptible early wilting and recessive at any one (h1h1H2_ or H1_h2h2) produce susceptible late wilting and rec...