Inadequate nutrition is a major constraint that negatively impacts the growth and viability of cattle farming in Kenya's arid semi-arid lands (ASALs). This hastened by adverse effects climate change lead to feed scarcity poor-quality feed. However, these can only be checked with use improved technologies hence need disseminate adaptation strategies technologies. In an attempt resolve situation,...

Tropical forage genetic resources are essential material for the development of adapted pasture crops. Collection, conservation and characterization of these resources are needed to preserve them for future generations. Collections were made after 1970 by CIAT, CSIRO and ILRI. The current status of these collections and present conservation methods are reviewed. Genetic diversity has been asses...

Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC. is a plant of the Fabaceae family especially rich in flavonoids but also alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, phenols, phenylpropanoids, glycosides, and volatiles. This herb has been traditionally used numerous countries all over world for its pharmacological biological properties (i.e., it treatment diarrheas, fever, epilepsy, asthma, leishmaniasis, gastroduodenal ul...

The current research was carried out to characterize the phytosociology of forests one Pakistan’s most valuable tree species (Deodar) across its native range. In this context, our main hypothesis that, along altitudinal gradient, we would find different plant communities that be driven by environmental variables (climatic, edaphic, and physiographic). Therefore, assess vegetation structure pure...

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal distributions in the rhizosphere of 20 medicinal plants species in Zhangzhou, southeast China, were studied. The results showed 66 species of 8 genera of AM fungi were identified, of which 38 belonged to Glomus, 12 to Acaulospora, 9 to Scutellospora, 2 to Gigaspora, 2 to Funneliformis, 1 to Septoglomus, 1 to Rhizophagus, and 1 to Archaeospora. Glomus was t...