Preference among tree fodders in four Madras red breed of sheep and four kanni breed of goats fed with four locally available tree species viz. Albizia lebbek, Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala and Inga dulce was studied through intake studies by cafeteria method for a period of 35 days. The nutrient composition of the tree leaves was analysed. Leucaena leucocephala was mostly preferred ...

The resistivity and susceptibility level of tree species to air pollution within avenue’s of Urban Bangalore has been evaluated on the basis of Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) value. Four parameters namely Leaf extract pH, Total Chlorophyll Content, Relative Water Content of Leaf and Ascorbic Acid content were determined and APTI was computed. The tree species with higher APTI values like ...

India’s forest cover was estimated to be about 67.701 million hectares or 22.8 percent of the country’s land area and other wooded lands comprise of 4.11 million ha (UNEP Report, 2000). The dense forests in almost all the major states has been reduced and forest degradation is a matter of serious concern now. Principal plantation species such as Acacia spp., Eucalyptus spp. and Tectona grandis ...

Fifteen plant species were collected from the Nelspruit Botanical Garden based on a list of plants provided by Phytomedicine Programme at the University of Pretoria and their ethnopharmacological information. Hexane, dichloromethane (DCM), acetone and methanolic extracts were screened for antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium smegmatis. The acetone extract of Milletia stulhimannii wa...

30 milled rice samples were collected from retailers in four states of Malaysia. These samples were evaluated for Eurotium spp. contaminations by direct plating on malt extract salt agar (MESA). All Eurotium were isolated and identified based on morphology and nucleotide sequences of internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) and ITS2 of the rDNA.  Four Eurotium species (E. rubrum, E. amstelodami, E....

To evaluate the potential antimicrobial activity, Aloe vera and Opuntia ficus-indica plants were collected from Jeddah, Al Baha, Taif areas of Kingdom Saudi Arabia (SA), their ethanolic extracts screened by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS/MS). The di(2-propylpentyl) ester hexadecenoic acid ethyl phthalic most abundant compounds in A. extract, 1-(benzyloxy)-3,5-dinitrobenzene phenol,...