Introduction Research at CLIMA has indicated that Lathyrus cicera and L. sativus (grasspea) have potential as grain legumes on 100 000 to 300 000 ha of neutral to alkaline soils in low-to-medium rainfall areas of southern Australia. They do not have serious disease problems and are envisaged as low maintenance/low cost crops for the purposes of green manure, managing herbicide resistant weeds, ...

1. Understanding the plant genome. 1.1 Extra Nuclear Genomes 1.2 Structure, Size and Organization 1.3 Synteny and Collinearity of Plant Genomes 2. The science of ‘Genomics’ 2.1 Genome Sequences – the Raw Material 2.2 Structural and Functional Genomics 3. Arabidopsis Genome sequence – The signpost of plant genomics 3.1 Arabidopsis will not feed the world 3.2 The International Rice Genome Sequenc...

Inorganic fertilizers have become the pillars supporting a burgeoning world population. With population doubling during the lifetime of each of us, a tremendous strain has been put on the ability of agriculture to feed mankind. Agriculture has responded magnificently, with yields of most crops more than doubling in the past 15 years. Cereal production mcreased by 150% (Table 1). Unfortunately h...

The aim of this paper is to design a recognizer to recognize Assamese digits using feed forward neural network. The recognizer crops the individual digits of the image using bounding box method and extracts the feature. In the present study zoning is used to obtain necessary feature vector. This feature is provided as input to the classifier and the network is trained with backpropagation train...

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by pathogenic fungi in crops worldwide. These compounds can undergo modification in plants, leading to the formation of a large number of possible modified forms, whose toxicological relevance and occurrence in food and feed is still largely unexplored. The analysis of modified mycotoxins by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry remains a challeng...

Genes change continuously by natural mutation and recombination enabling man to select and breed crops having the most desirable traits such as yield or flavour. Genetic modification (GM) is a recent development which allows specific genes to be identified, isolated, copied and inserted into other plants with a high level of specificity. The food safety considerations for GM crops are basically...

This research publication highlights current data on the rational use of feed protein by pheasants, which is related to physiological needs chicks in this essential means nutrition. A thorough analysis used feeding pheasants at stage development pheasant breeding was carried out. It has been established that cereals have most significant distribution. Brief information provided various factors ...

The research deals with the contamination of feeding crops with fungi, producing mycotoxins and use of selected yeasts for detoxification. The thin-layer chromatography and ELISA methods were applied for the analysis of fungal secondary metabolites. The results showed a high rate of the grain contamination with fungi, mainly from genera Penicillium, Fusarium, Aspergillus and Alternaria. Some of...

Increased production of corn based ethanol and the resulting increase in availability of distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGS) has a number of implications for the U.S. livestock industry and for the production of traditional livestock feed crops. Some of those implications are examined here. First, and most importantly, the potential size of the domestic market for DDGS is evaluated in d...

It has been suggested that genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops may benefit biodiversity because spraying of crops may be delayed until later in the growing season, allowing weeds to grow during the early part of the year. This provides an enhanced resource for arthropods, and potentially benefits birds that feed on these. Thus, this technology could enhance biodiversity. Using a revie...