The objective of this study was to determine the optimal plot size evaluate fresh matter in millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) and slender leaf rattlebox (Crotalaria ochroleuca), scenarios formed by combinations numbers treatments, replicates, levels precision. Fifteen uniformity trials with rattlebox, single cropping or intercropping, were carried out. Fresh evaluated 540 basic experimental units ...

INTRODUCTION Keratinophilic fungi are an important group of fungi that live in soil. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify keratinophilic fungi from the soil of different parks in Shiraz. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 196 soil samples from 43 parks were collected. Isolation of the fungi was performed by hair bait technique. The isolated colonies were identified by morphologic f...

Crotalarias are tropical legumes grown as cover crops or as green manure to improve soil fertility. As an understory plant in plantation systems, these cover crops receive low levels of irradiance and are subjected to elevated levels of CO2 and temperatures. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the independent short-term effects of photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), externa...

Two species, namely Russula adwanitekae A.Ghosh, K.Das & Buyck sp. nov. and purpureozonata K.Das, A.Ghosh are proposed herein as new mushroom taxa from the Indian Himalaya based on their morphological features ITS-based phylogenetic inferences. Both species belong to crown clade of subgenus but with affinities different subsections, viz. subsect. Laricinae Romagn. Decolorantes Maire, respec...

A revision and key to the 23 species and eight subspecies of Poa (including Dissanthelium) known to occur in Mexico is provided. All voucher specimens seen are cited for accepted taxa, except Poa annua for which one voucher per state is provided. Taxa not previously known from, or poorly understood in, Mexico are discussed.Poa palmerisp. nov. is endemic to forested slopes of the Sierra Madre Or...

The Dulcamaroid clade of Solanum contains 45 species of mostly vining or weakly scandent species, including the common circumboreal weed Solanum dulcamara L. The group comprises members of the previously recognised infrageneric groupings sect. Andropedas Rusby, sect. Californisolanum A. Child, sect. Dulcamara (Moench) Dumort., sect. Holophylla (G.Don) Walp., sect. Jasminosolanum (Bitter) Seithe...

Soil fertility degradation remains the major biophysical cause of declining per capita crop production on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. Appropriate soil fertility regimes, are therefore, critical for improved crop productivity. This study investigated the feasibility of using sole organics or their combinations with inorganic fertilisers to improve maize (Zea mays) production in the ...