cadmium is a heavy metal with a strong adverse effect on crop quality. moreover, it is a mobile element in environment and plants can easily uptake and transfer it to their organs. cadmium can easily enter human and animals food chains and threatens their health. to study the effects of a water soluble polymer and inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi on cadmium uptake of clover grown on contamina...

Aim: To determine the metabolizable protein (MP) content of common indigenous feedstuffs used in ruminant nutrition using in situ method. Materials and Methods: Nine ruminant feeds such as maize grain (MG), groundnut cake (GNC), mustard oilcake (MOC), cottonseed cake (CSC), deoiled rice bran (DORB), wheat bran (WB), berseem fodder (BF), maize fodder (MF) and sorghum fodder (SF) were included in...

Shemesh, M. and Shore, L.S. 6 INTRODUCTION The present review describes a number of environmentally caused reproductive disorders in domestic animals which we have observed over the last five decades. This is of interest not only for animal husbandry but these environmental hormones may responsible for human health effects as well. However effects of phytoestrogens or other naturally occuring e...

plants, some white clover plants survived for 2 to 3 yr at a pH as low as 4.2 (Voigt, unpublished data, 1996). Establishment of small-seeded legumes on strongly acid soils can Thus, acid-soil resistance at seedlings stages may be even be even more difficult than maintaining those stands once established. more critical than acid-soil resistance at older stages of Our objectives were to use a soi...