in order to study radiation use efficiency and radiation interception in intercropping of herb sweet basil and common bean, an experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran for the growing season of 2008. treatments were 1) sole crop of bean , 2) sole crop of sweet basil, 3) strip intercropping of bean and sweet basil (four rows bean and two...

One filed experiment was carried out to study the effect of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza fungi and three preceding winter crops, i.e., Meskawy cultivar Egyptian clover berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.), Careem sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) Sakha 94 wheat (Triticum aestivum) five fertilizer combinations as treatments NPK mineral bio which included 100% (T1), 75% + arbuscular mycorrhiza (AMFs) (T2), 50% ...

We report a Shigella sonnei outbreak of 46 cases that occurred in Norway during October 2011. Two municipalities were involved. A large cluster (42 cases)was concentrated in north Norway, while a smallcluster (4 cases) occurred in the south-east region.Epidemiological evidence and trace back investigations have linked the outbreak to the consumption of imported fresh basil. The product has been...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is an important legume crop with enormous nutritional, agronomic and economic value. constitutes a large portion of the daily diet among many people in Africa, Asia, Central America, Southern America. The United States was top 10 global producers cowpea until 1967, when grown primarily for soil management livestock feed. With projected increase minority pop...

Cowpea (V. unguiculata L. Walp) is a climate resilient legume crop important for food security. Cultivated cowpea (V. unguiculata L) generally comprises the bushy, short-podded grain cowpea dominant in Africa and the climbing, long-podded vegetable cowpea popular in Asia. How selection has contributed to the diversification of the two types of cowpea remains largely unknown. In the current stud...

Previous genetic studies in cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] have shown that an active bipartite transposable element (TE) is responsible for a range of mutant phenotypes of its leaf, stem and flower. Since type II TEs have not been characterized at the molecular level in cowpea, this study was initiated to survey the presence of type II TEs in the cowpea genome. Type II TEs: Enhancer/Suppr...

The mechanism by which inositol 3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate (Ins(3,4,5, 6)P4) regulates chloride (Cl-) secretion was evaluated in the colonic epithelial cell line T84 using whole cell voltage clamp techniques. Our studies focused on the calcium-dependent chloride conductance (gClCa) that was activated either by mobilizing intracellular calcium (Cai) stores with thapsigargin or by introduction of ...

Rice cakes are made in many cultures and have wide range of processing product characteristics. These from rice flours which grounded into fine powders. had been by different methods using ingredients cultures. The main aim for this prepared cake was to develop a flour with Blackcherry pulp supplemented Basil. flours, the blackcherry basil being treated at levels, 100% i.e. 100:0 is ( T₀) serve...