This study was conducted in a rice-based cropping scheme to investigate the impact of green manuring on soil health, considering physicochemical properties and sustainable crop production. A field experiment started 2 November 2015 completed 15 April 2018 under rice–berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum) system calcareous soil. Two patterns, rice–wheat–sesbania (rostrata), were compared with commonly...

Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) is an aromatic herb that has been used traditionally as a diverse medicinally herb for curing various diseases including common cold, headache, malaria, heart disease, stomach and kidney disorders. Its essential oil (EO) is used in the manufacturing of cosmetic and pharmaceutical products as well as aroma therapy. Keeping the medicinal as well as economical imp...

White clover is important to New Zealand pastoral farming yet uptake of new agronomically superior cultivars by farmers is slower than expected. Three main areas which explain why this is occurring are: 1. The need to demonstrate economic benefits due to superior agronomic performance of new cultivars to overcome barriers such as price and farmers satisfaction with existing products. 2. Farmers...

The objective of this study was to compare utilization of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) by lactating dairy cows. Red clover and alfalfa were harvested and conserved as silage at two maturities in 2 consecutive yr. Each year, diets containing experimental forages and supplemental grain were fed to 16 multiparous Holstein cows in early lactation in a replicat...

The input of Nitrogen (N) through symbiotic N2 fixation (SNF) in grass-clover mixtures was determined in an organic cropping system for grazing during 3 years. The mixture of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) was established by undersowing in spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and maintained subsequently for two production years. Dinitrogen fixation w...

Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum), one of the most popular cultivated herbs worldwide, displays a number of varieties differing in several characteristics, such as the color of the leaves. The development of a reference transcriptome for sweet basil, and the analysis of differentially expressed genes in acyanic and cyanic cultivars exposed to natural sunlight irradiance, has interest from horticul...

The study aims to determine the effect of basil leaf extract and fraction in inhibiting growth Escherichia coli bacteria best concentration bacteria.
 methodin this used a completely randomized design (CRD) with five treatments repetitions based on each treatment group, namely: 25% concentration, 50% 75% concentration.
 result shows that from it was found largest Eschericia at group. ...

Downy mildew of basil is a new, destructive disease that appears to be here to stay. It was first reported in south FL in October 2007. In 2008 downy mildew was confirmed in both fieldand greenhouse-grown basil crops, as well as home gardens, in many states: NC, PA, NJ, NY, MA, NC, KS, and MO. Likely it occurred elsewhere but was not recognized. Growers generally did not realize their basil had...