Seeds of 200 accessions of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) were provided from Iraniannatural resource gene bank and were sown as drilled plot using alpha designs/unreplicatedwith 2 repeated entries within all of 10 blocks under dry land farming system in agriculturalresearch center of Hamadan, Iran during 2009 to 2010. The data were collected and analyzedfor plant height, stem number, leaf stem ra...

The effects of drinking sodium-bicarbonated mineral water on cardiovascular risk in young men and women with moderate cardiovascular risk were studied. Eighteen young volunteers (total cholesterol levels >5.2 mmol/L) without any disease participated. The study consisted of two 8-week intervention periods. Subjects consumed, as supplement to their usual diet, 1 L/day control low mineral water, f...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the influence of various irrigation regimes on some metabolic pools of wheat and alfalfa plants. The photosynthetic pigments and soluble proteins of the tested plants significantly increased when irrigated with sewage amended with Scenedesmus quadricauda or Nostoc sp. On the other hand, soluble carbohydrates decreased in wheat shoots at different treatmen...

Ensiling as a method of forage feed conservation is the most appropriate in conserving crude protein (CP) enhanced forages for sustainable dairy production. This attributed to fact that with this method, dependent lactic acid bacteria (LAB) hydrolyze water soluble carbohydrates (WSC) into short chain volatile fatty acids (VFAs) which are precursors milk synthesis while proteins buffers excessiv...

Introduction Although numerous studies have been conducted with the aim of developing drug-delivery systems, chemically synthesized gene carriers have shown limited applications in the biomedical fields due to several problems, such as low-grafting yields, undesirable reactions, difficulties in controlling the reactions, and high-cost production owing to multi-step manufacturing processes. Ma...

Kanamycin sulphate (KS) is a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein synthesis inhibitor. Due to its intense hydrophilicity, KS is cleared from the body within 8 h. KS has a very short plasma half-life (2.5 h). KS is used in high concentrations to reach the therapeutic levels in plasma, which results in serious nephrotoxicity/ototoxicity. To overcome aforementioned limitations, the current study aim...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of adding citric acid residue (CAR) with or without lactic bacteria (LAB) Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus; syn. Pennisetum purpureum) cv. Sumu No. 2 at ensiling on fermentation quality and aerobic stability resulting silage. Treatments included: Control (Napier forage additives); inoculated (Lactobacillus plantarum L. buchneri) 1 × 106 cfu/gf...

Forage deficiency is the bottleneck that restricts development of plateau animal husbandry. Maize (Zea mays L.)–soybean (Glycine max L.) intercropping can improve forage biomass yield and silage quality. This experiment was conducted in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to explore effects four maize varieties (M1, Rongyu Silage No. 1; M2, Yayu 04889; M3, Demeiya M4, Zhenghong 505) on yield, n...

− The present work presents improvements to the existing methods for extraction of carbohydrates with water. In order to test the effects of extraction factors on the yield of carbohydrates, extractions of water-soluble carbohydrates were performed with two contrasting samples (suspended particulate organic matter from the high turbidity zone of the Gironde estuary and sedimentary organic matte...