Burning of agricultural residues, cultivation single crop varieties such as rice (Oryza sativa L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), traditional soil tillage practices collectively contribute to the degradation environmental quality, water systems, resources. To address these issues, conservation agriculture (CA)-based management practice has emerged one viable options. The current study was co...

Five white rot basidiomycetes were evaluated for their potential to improve ruminal degradation of oat straw and alfalfa stems. Phanerochaete chrysosporium (PC), Scytinostroma galactinum (SG), Phlebia tremellosa (PT), Phellinus pini (PP), and Pholiota mutabilis (PM) were incubated on oat straw and alfalfa stems for 30 d at 28 degrees C and 90% relative humidity. Detergent fiber and total fiber ...

Footprinting studies of prokaryotic open transcription complexes (RPO), based on oxidation of pyrimidine residues by KMnO4 and/or OsO4 at a single oxidant dose, have suggested that the extent of DNA melting in the transcription bubble region increases in the presence of Mg . In this work, quantitative KMnO4 footprinting in function of the oxidant dose of RPO, using Escherichia coli RNA polymera...

The fine structure of Cyanidium caldarium, as seen in thin sections of KMnO4-fixed cells examined with the electron microscope, is described. This organism, whose taxonomic position among algae is undetermined, contains a single well defined chloroplast, a nucleus, and mitochondria. Studies, with the electron microscope, of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Nostoc are also reported. Structural differen...

Amyloidosis of urinary bladder is a rare condition and may be primary or secondary in nature. A case of primary localized vesical amyloidosis (VA) in a 40-yr-old man is described confused with neoplasm by cystoscopic, urographic. Surgical specimens obtained by transurethral resection (TUR) were diagnostic and histologically revealed amyloid deposits in sub-epithelial stroma with chronic inflamm...