abstract plants are exposed to stressful environmental conditions in the process of growth and development. one of the most important stresses is the salt stress which can limit the plant’s growth and yield. plants symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in salt conditions can affect the plant’s yield as well as growth parameters. the plant’s growth in salt stressful conditions might be red...

Storkey and Neve (2018) hypothesised that weed seedbank diversity could be used as an indicator of agroecosystem sustainability, with cropping systems associated higher being more agronomically environmentally sustainable than those lower diversity. We evaluated their hypothesis using multiple years empirical data collected from a long-term field experiment in Iowa, USA, life cycle assessment m...

Alkaline protease producing microorganism Vibrio metschnikovii NG155, isolated from the soil samples of leather industry, having potential application in dehairing of animal skin was used in this study. To enhance the production of protease by this strain, various physical and nutritional factors were optimized using statistical methods like Plackett Burman and Response Surface Methodology. In ...

Effect of various fermentation media, carbon sources, nitrogen sources, phosphate concentration and culture requirements includes inoculum levels and age were determined on gentamicin production and biomass dry weight production for Micromonospora echinospora, a gentamicin producing strain. Of the substrates tested, starch as a sole carbon source promoted maximal gentamicin production, while ma...

introduction:frankincense is a natural oleo-gum-resin which is obtained through slits made in the trunks of trees of the genus boswellia (family burseraceae). the genus boswellia is approximately represented by 43 different trees and shrubs distributed mostly in the india, arabian peninsula, and east africa (mothana et al.2011). trees from the genus boswellia (burseraceae) are traditionally use...

This study investigated the effect of n-3 fatty acids on adhesion molecules and tissue myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in diabetic mice with sepsis. Diabetes was induced by a streptozotocin injection. Mice with blood glucose levels exceeding 2000 mg/l were considered diabetic. Diabetic mice were assigned to two groups with a medium-fat (10 %, w/w) diet either provided by soyabean oil (SO, n 30) ...

Many African diets are low in fat but are currently changing because of nutrition transition. We studied fat and fatty acid (FA) intake and the essential fatty acid (EFA) status of adolescent girls (aged 14-19 years, n 262) in Zambezia Province, central Mozambique. A cross-sectional study was carried out in a city as well as in the towns and rural villages of a coastal and an inland district. D...

Immunonutrition combining parenteral nutrition and pharmacological intervention has become of particular interest over the last few years. 12-3 Fatty acid-rich lipid emulsions have been developed for parenteral application in clinical situations, designed to shift the arachidonic acid (AA): eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) value toward predominance of the latter lipid-mediator precursor. Many of the...