Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...

ABSTRACT Lentinus tigrinus is a significant edible and medicinal mushroom. It was collected from University of the Punjab, Lahore under Morus tree. For domestication this wild species, its three parameters i.e., culturability, spawn production cultivation potential were assessed using different synthetic culture media substrates. Completely randomized design used to determine all effects evalua...

Introduction : Mushroom poisoning was the leading cause of foodborne disease outbreaks and outbreak-associated deaths in China. outbreak surveillance can provide insight into epidemiological characteristics mushroom poisonings guide policymaking health education to reduce illnesses deaths. Methods Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System upgraded 2011 colle...

The various synthetic substituted hydrazines, which cause tumors in animals, are briefly enumerated. To date, 19 of them have proved to be tumorigenic in animals. A number of these chemicals are found today in the environment, in industry, in agriculture, and in medicine, and the human population is exposed to a certain degree to some of them. Hydrazine also occurs in nature in tobacco and toba...

Objective: To improve the strain of Pleurotus mushroom by protoplast fusion technique Methods: The white rot fungus Pleurotus species was isolated from fresh fruiting body of Oyster mushroom by spore print technique and was cultured on Potato dextrose agar. The selected strain was identified based on the morphological and cultural characters on Potato dextrose agar. The protoplasts were isolate...

application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. in this paper, the benefits of...