Areca catechu L. belongs to the Arecaceae family which comprises many economically important palms. The palm is a source of alkaloids and carotenoids. The lack of ample genetic information in public databases has been a constraint for the genetic improvement of arecanut. To gain molecular insight into the palm, high throughput RNA sequencing and de novo assembly of arecanut leaf transcriptome w...

Date palm seedlings derived from Jihel (JHL), a susceptible cultivar to Bayoud disease (fusariosis caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. albedinis, Foa), were subjected to root inoculation with an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) collected from south Morocco and multiplied on barley as host plant. Successfully colonized plants by mycorrhizal fungi (85 % of treated plants) produced typical intra...

The Trachycarpus fortunei palm is a good example of a palm with a large leaf blade supported by a correspondingly large petiole. The way in which the material and functional properties of the petiole interact is analysed using engineering and botanical methods with a view to understanding how the petiole functions from a structural standpoint. Initially, the histological aspects of the petiole ...

Many agrowastes are being used for energy production by combustion in thermal power plants. This process generates huge amounts of ashes, which have a potential pozzolanic activity for blending with Portland cement or hydrated lime. Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and corn straw (Zea mays) are two types of biomass whose ashes could be valorized in construction materials. The aim of the pr...

Moringa oleifera, Lam. (Moringaceae) is grown world-wide in the tropics and sub-tropics of Asia and Africa and contains abundant various nutrients. This study describes the effect of different parts (leaf, stem and stalk) and seasons (summer and winter) on the chemical compositions and antioxidant activity of M. oleifera grown in Taiwan. The results showed that the winter samples of Moringa had...

Effective methods for early detection of newly established, low density emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) infestations are critically needed in North America. We assessed adult A. planipennis captures on four types of traps in a 16-ha site in central Michigan. The site was divided into 16 blocks, each comprised of four 50- by 50-m cells. Green ash trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica ...

The present study was aimed to evaluate physicochemical standardization and preliminary phytochemical investigation of the leaf of Grewia tiliaefolia Vahl belonging to the family tiliaceae. The standardization parameters included determination of foreign matter, loss on drying, ash values, extractive values, fluorescence analysis, preliminary phytochemical screening was performed according to s...