The study was carried out to investigate plant parasitic nematodes in oil rose growing areas Isparta province July-August 2022. Soil samples were taken from 15 different and the with 65 samples. A total of 12 species determined study. These are Tylenchus spp., Aphelenchus Pratylenchus Dictylenchus Dorylaimus Paratylenchus Longidorus Xiphinema Meloidogyne Helicotylenchus spp. Merlinus (52.3%), (...

The spill of Crude oil from artisanal refineries and government owned pipelines has become recurrent situation in the Niger Delta, leading to devastating effects on aquatic ecosystem. toxicity NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) refinery selected Bolo, Twon-Brass Ekpemu Delta were investigated. physicochemical properties products short fall standards for refineries, as they contained...

Skinner and colleagues (Research Article, 23 January 2015, p. 395), based on metacarpal trabecular bone structure, argue that Australopithecus africanus employed human-like dexterity for stone tool making and use 3 million years ago. However, their evolutionary and biological assumptions are misinformed, failing to refute the previously existing hypothesis that human-like manipulation preceded ...

Almécija and colleagues claim that we apply a simplified understanding of bone functional adaptation and that our results of human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus are not novel. We argue that our results speak to actual behavior, rather than potential behaviors, and our functional interpretation is well supported by our methodological approach, comparative sample, and previous exper...

In his recent paper, Dobson (2005) concludes that, contrary to the work of McHenry and Berger (1998a,b), the pattern of differences in joint proportions between the partial skeleton Stw 431 and A.L. 288-1 ‘‘does not correspond to the pattern revealed from a comparison of large samples of unassociated postcranial material from Sterkfontein Member 4 and Hadar’’ (Dobson, 2005, p. 153). Using exact...

Crude extracts of various Agapanthus africanus plant parts were screened in vitro against eight economically important plant pathogenic fungi. Radial mycelial growth was inhibited significantly (Po0.05) in five test organisms, while Pythium ultimum, and to a lesser extent Fusarium oxysporum and Alternaria alternata, showed a degree of tolerance. Subsequently, these crude extracts were tested in...

Human hands, when compared to that of apes, have a series of adaptations to facilitate manipulation. Numerous studies have shown that Australopithecus afarensis and Au. africanus display some of these adaptations, such as a longer thumb relative to the other fingers, asymmetric heads on the second and fifth metacarpals, and orientation of the second metacarpal joints with the trapezium and capi...